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Reconsidering the Backward Vertical Linkage of Foreign Affiliates: Evidence from Japanese Multinationals
Download paper [PDF:480KB]KIYOTA Kozo
(Faculty Fellow)
MATSUURA Toshiyuki
URATA Shujiro
(Faculty Fellow)
WEI Yuhong
March 2005
05-E-019
Why Lying Pays: Truth Bias in the Communication with Conflicting Interests
Download paper [PDF:144KB]KAWAGOE Toshiji
(Faculty Fellow)
TAKIZAWA Hirokazu
(Fellow)
March 2005
05-E-018
A Deviation Measurement for Coordinated Exchange Rate Policies in East Asia
Download paper [PDF:434KB]OGAWA Eiji
(Faculty Fellow)
SHIMIZU Junko
March 2005
05-E-017
Live with a Quiet but Uneasy Status Quo? -An Evolutionary Role the Appellate Body Can Play in Resolution of 'Trade and Environment' Disputes-
Download paper [PDF:156KB]TAIRA Satoru
(Faculty Fellow)
March 2005
05-E-016
Relationship Banking in post Bubble Japan: Co-existence of soft-and hard budget constraint
Download paper [PDF:256KB]ARIKAWA Yasuhiro
(Faculty Fellow)
MIYAJIMA Hideaki
(Faculty Fellow)
March 2005
05-E-015
The Asian Crisis Reconsidered
Download paper [PDF:144KB]SHIRAISHI Takashi
(Faculty Fellow)
March 2005
05-E-014
Implementation in WTO Dispute Settlement:
An Introduction to the Problems and Possible Solutions
Download paper [PDF:196KB]William J. DAVEY
March 2005
05-E-013
The Role of Multinational Firms in International Trade: The Case of Japan
Download paper [PDF:388KB]KIYOTA Kozo
(Faculty Fellow)
URATA Shujiro
(Faculty Fellow)
March 2005
05-E-012
China's Innovation System Reform and Growing Industry and Science Linkages
Download paper [PDF:204KB]MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
XIAO Yun
March 2005
05-E-011
China's Role in the Current Global Economic Imbalance
Download paper [PDF:512KB]Li-Gang LIU
(Senior Fellow, RIETI)
March 2005
05-E-010
Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap: The Japanese Experience 1999-2004
Download paper [PDF:520KB]IWAMURA Mitsuru
KUDO Takeshi
WATANABE Tsutomu
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
March 2005
05-E-009
The Internationalization and Performance of Korean and Japanese Firms: An Empirical Analysis Based on Micro-data
Download paper [PDF:468KB]Sanghoon AHN
FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow)
KWON Hyeog Ug
March 2005
05-E-008
Increasing Complexity and Limits of Organization in the Microlithography Industry:
Implications for Japanese Science-based Industries
Download paper [PDF:612KB]CHUMA Hiroyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
March 2005
05-E-007
The Unwinding of Cross-shareholding: Causes, Effects, and Implications
Download paper [PDF:728KB]MIYAJIMA Hideaki
(Faculty Fellow)
KUROKI Fumiaki
February 2005
05-E-006
Do Out-In M&As Bring Higher TFP to Japan?
An Empirical Analysis Based on Micro-data on Japanese Manufacturing Firms
Download paper [PDF:368KB]FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow)
ITO Keiko
KWON Hyeog Ug
February 2005
05-E-005
Why Did Japan's TFP Growth Slow Down in the Lost Decade?
An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-Level Data of Manufacturing Firms
Download paper [PDF:528KB]FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
Hyeog Ug KWON
February 2005
05-E-004
An Experimental Study of Leniency Programs
Download paper [PDF:272KB]HAMAGUCHI Yasuyo
KAWAGOE Toshiji
(Faculty Fellow)
February 2005
05-E-003
Forbearance Impedes Confidence Recovery (Revised)
Download paper [PDF:268KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow)
February 2005
05-E-002
Market Dynamics and Productivity in Japanese Retail Industry in the late 1990s
Download paper [PDF:220KB]MATSUURA Toshiyuki
MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
January 2005
05-E-001
Payment Uncertainty, the Division of Labor, and Productivity Declines in Great Depressions
Download paper [PDF:598KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow, RIETI)
December 2004
04-E-037
Two-Sided Platforms: Pricing and Social Efficiency-Extensions
Download paper [PDF:345KB]Andrei HAGIU
(Fellow, RIETI)
December 2004
04-E-036
Two-Sided Platforms: Pricing and Social Efficiency
Download paper [PDF:491KB]Andrei HAGIU
(Fellow, RIETI)
December 2004
04-E-035
Science Linkages in Technologies Patented in Japan
Download paper [PDF:181KB]TAMADA Schumpeter
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
NAITO Yusuke
GEMBA Kiminori
KODAMA Fumio
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
SUZUKI Jun
GOTO Akira
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
November 2004
04-E-034
China's Integration in Asian Production Networks and its Implications
Download paper [PDF:523KB]Guillaume GAULIER
Francoise LEMOINE
Deniz UNAL-KESENCI
November 2004
04-E-033
A Survey of the Economic Role of Software Platforms in Computer-based Industries
Download paper [PDF:324KB]David S. EVANS
Andrei HAGIU
(Fellow, RIETI)
Richard SCHMALENSEE
October 2004
04-E-032
Bank Regulation and Market Discipline around the World
Download paper [PDF:442KB]HOSONO Kaoru
IWAKI Hiroko
TSURU Kotaro
(Senior Fellow)
October 2004
04-E-031
Is Financial Friction Irrelevant to the Great Depression?
- Simple modification of the Carlstrom-Fuerst model -
Download paper [PDF:243KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow)
September 2004
04-E-030
Payment Uncertainty and the Productivity Slowdown
Download paper [PDF:371KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow)
September 2004
04-E-029
How Trade Credit Differs from Loans: Evidence from Japanese Trading Companies
Download paper [PDF:376KB]UESUGI Iichiro
(Fellow)
Guy M. YAMASHIRO
(Department of Economics California State University, Long Beach)
September 2004
04-E-028
Corporate Finance and Human Resource Management
Download paper [PDF:346KB]ABE Masahiro
(Faculty Fellow)
HOSHI Takeo
(Faculty Fellow )
August 2004
04-E-027
Transaction Services and Asset-Price Bubbles
Download paper [PDF:423KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow, RIETI)
August 2004
04-E-026
A Key Currency and a Local Currency - A simple theoretical model and its welfare implications
Download paper [PDF:133KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow, RIETI)
August 2004
04-E-025
Monetary Policy in the Great Recession
Download paper [PDF:272KB]ARAI Yoichi
HOSHI Takeo
(Faculty Fellow )
July 2004
04-E-024
Toward a Comparative Perspective on Corporate Governance and Labour Management
Download paper [PDF:256KB]Gregory JACKSON
July 2004
04-E-023
Contested Boundaries: Ambiguity and Creativity in the Evolution of German Codetermination
Download paper [PDF:328KB]Gregory JACKSON
June 2004
04-E-022
The Restructuring of Japanese Research and Development:
The increasing impact of science on Japanese R&D
Download paper [PDF:436KB]Lee BRANSTETTER
(Visiting Fellow)
KWON Hyeog Ug
April 2004
04-E-021
What Japanese Workers Want:
Evidence from the Japanese Worker Representation and Participation Survey
Download paper [PDF:326KB]CHUMA Hiroyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
KATO Takao
OHASHI Isao
April 2004
04-E-019
