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Male-Female Wage and Productivity Differentials: A Structural Approach Using Japanese Firm-level Panel Data
Download paper [PDF:444KB]ASANO Hirokatsu
(Asia University)
KAWAGUCHI Daiji
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
March 2007
07-E-020
Information Sharing in Joint Research and Development
Download paper [PDF:212KB]CHUMA Hiroyuki
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
FUJIMURA Shuzo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
KAWAGOE Toshiji (Future University - Hakodate)
MATSUBAE Taisuke (Waseda University)
OKUNO (FUJIWARA) Masahiro
(the University of Tokyo)
TAKIZAWA Hirokazu
(Fellow, RIETI)
WATANABE Yasunori (the University of Tokyo)
YOKOYAMA Izumi (Hitotsubashi University)
March 2007
07-E-019
An Analysis of the Restrictions on Foreign Direct Investment in Free Trade Agreements
Download paper [PDF:172KB]URATA Shujiro
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
John SASUYA
(Waseda University)
March 2007
07-E-018
On the Comparison of Safeguard Mechanisms of Free Trade Agreements
Download paper [PDF:209KB]KOTERA Akira
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
KITAMURA Tomofumi
March 2007
07-E-017
Market Access in FTAs: Assessment Based on Rules of Origin and Agricultural Trade Liberalization
Download paper [PDF:472KB]Inkyo CHEONG
(Inha University)
Jungran CHO
(Inha University)
March 2007
07-E-016
Services in Free Trade Agreements
Download paper [PDF:360KB]OCHIAI Ryo
(The Australian National University)
Philippa DEE
(The Australian National University)
Christopher FINDLAY
(The University of Adelaide)
March 2007
07-E-015
Bank Distress and Productivity of Borrowing Firms: Evidence from Japan
Download paper [PDF:719KB]AKIYOSHI Fumio
(the University of Tokyo)
KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow, RIETI)
March 2007
07-E-014
Revised April 4, 2008
Collateral Constraint and News-driven Cycles
Download paper [PDF:725KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow, RIETI)
NAKAJIMA Tomoyuki
(Kyoto University)
INABA Masaru
(RIETI)
March 2007
07-E-013
How Would China's Exports be Affected by a Unilateral Appreciation of the RMB and a Joint Appreciation of Countries Supplying Intermediate Imports?
Download paper [PDF:222KB]Mizanur RAHMAN
(National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and RIETI)
Willem THORBECKE
(Senior Fellow, RIETI)
March 2007
07-E-012
Illegal Extractions of Renewable Resources and International Trade with Costly Enforcement of Property Rights
Download paper [PDF:431KB]JINJI Naoto
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
March 2007
07-E-011
What Determines Overseas R&D Activities? The Case of Japanese Multinational Firms
Download paper [PDF:329KB]SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
TODO Yasuyuki
(Aoyama Gakuin University)
March 2007
07-E-010
Information Technology and Economic Growth: Comparison between Japan and Korea
Download paper [PDF:172KB]KANAMORI Takahito
(the University of Tokyo)
MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
March 2007
07-E-009
Overseas R&D Activities and Home Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data
Download paper [PDF:344KB]TODO Yasuyuki
(Aoyama Gakuin University)
SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
March 2007
07-E-008
Is Foreign Aid a Vanguard of FDI?
A Gravity-Equation Approach
Download paper [PDF:341KB] KIMURA Hidemi
(Fellow, RIETI)
TODO Yasuyuki
(Aoyama Gakuin University)
March 2007
07-E-007
The Effects of Multinational Production on Domestic Performance: Evidence from Japanese Firms
Download paper [PDF:288KB]Alexander HIJZEN
(OECD and GEP, University of Nottingham)
INUI Tomohiko
(College of Economics, Nihon University)
TODO Yasuyuki
(School of International Politics, Economics and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University)
March 2007
07-E-006
Does Offshoring Pay? Firm-Level Evidence from Japan
Download paper [PDF:254KB]Alexander HIJZEN
(OECD and GEP, University of Nottingham)
INUI Tomohiko
(College of Economics, Nihon University)
TODO Yasuyuki
(School of International Politics, Economics and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University)
March 2007
07-E-005
Factors Determining the Mode of Overseas R&D by Multinationals: Empirical Evidence
Download paper [PDF:185KB]ITO Banri
(Graduate School, Keio University)
WAKASUGI Ryuhei
(Research Counselor and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
February 2007
07-E-004
Estimation Procedures and TFP Analysis of the JIP Database 2006 (Revised)
Download paper [PDF:492KB]FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
HAMAGATA Sumio
(Hitotsubashi University)
INUI Tomohiko (Nihon University)
ITO Keiko (Senshu University)
Hyeog Ug KWON (Nihon University)
MAKINO Tatsuji (Hitotsubashi University)
MIYAGAWA Tsutomu
(Gakushuin University)
NAKANISHI Yasuo (Senshu University)
TOKUI Joji (Shinshu University)
January 2007
07-E-003
Revised: June 2007
Progress toward a Common Currency Basket System in East Asia
Download paper [PDF:168KB]OGAWA Eiji
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
SHIMIZU Junko
(Meikai University)
January 2007
07-E-002
Determinants of the Profitability of Japanese Manufacturing Affiliates in China and Other Regions: Does Localization of Procurement, Sales, and Management Matter?
Download paper [PDF:316KB]ITO Keiko
(Senshu University)
FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
January 2007
07-E-001
An Optimal Rate of the National Burden in an Aging Japan
Download paper [PDF:348KB]OKAMOTO Akira
(Okayama University)
December 2006
06-E-036
Analysis of the Survey Response Behavior: An experience from a pilot survey of the health and living status of the 50s and beyond in Japan
Download paper [PDF:196KB]ICHIMURA Hidehiko
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Public Policy and Economics, The University of Tokyo)
KAWAGUCHI Daiji
(Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
September 2006
06-E-035
Consolidation of Cooperative Banks (Shinkin) in Japan: Motives and Consequences
Download paper [PDF:2.1MB]HOSONO Kaoru
(Gakushuin University)
SAKAI Koji
(Graduate School of Hitotsubashi University)
TSURU Kotaro
(Senior Fellow, RIETI)
August 2006
06-E-034
The Shadow of Death: Pre-exit Performance of Firms in Japan
Download paper [PDF:144KB]KIYOTA Kozo
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
TAKIZAWA Miho
(Hitotsubashi University and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JSPS])
August 2006
06-E-033
Centralization or Decentralization of Decision Rights?
Impact on IT Performance of Firms
Download paper [PDF:264KB]KANAMORI Takahito
(Research Assistant, RIETI / Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
July 2006
06-E-032
Loan Officers and Relationship Lending
Download paper [PDF:152KB]UCHIDA Hirofumi
(Faculty of Economics, Wakayama University)
Gregory F. UDELL
(Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)
YAMORI Nobuyoshi
(School of Economics, Nagoya University)
June 2006
06-E-031
Empirical Determinants of Bargaining Power
Download paper [PDF:60KB]UCHIDA Hirofumi
(Faculty of Economics, Wakayama University)
June 2006
06-E-030
Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan
Download paper [PDF:152KB]UCHIDA Hirofumi
(Faculty of Economics, Wakayama University)
Gregory F. UDELL
(Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)
WATANABE Wako
(Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University)
June 2006
06-E-029
Adopting a Common Currency Basket Arrangement into the "ASEAN Plus Three"
Download paper [PDF:336KB]OGAWA Eiji
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University)
KAWASAKI Kentaro
(Faculty of Business Administration, Toyo University)
June 2006
06-E-028
An Analysis of the Potential Economic Effects of Bilateral, Regional, and Multilateral Free Trade
Download paper [PDF:256KB]KIYOTA Kozo
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Yokohama National University)
June 2006
06-E-027
Are Trade Creditors Relationship Lenders?
Download paper [PDF:216KB]UCHIDA Hirofumi
(Wakayama University)
Gregory F. UDELL
(Indiana University)
WATANABE Wako
(Tohoku University)
April 2006
06-E-026
SME Financing and the Choice of Lending Technology
Download paper [PDF:240KB]UCHIDA Hirofumi
(Wakayama University)
Gregory F. UDELL
(Indiana University)
YAMORI Nobuyoshi
(Nagoya University)
April 2006
06-E-025
Chinese Exchange Rate Regimes and the Optimal Basket Weights for the Rest of East Asia
Download paper [PDF:424KB]SHIOJI Etsuro
(Hitotsubashi University)
April 2006
06-E-024
New Evidences on What Job Creation and Job Destruction Represent
Download paper [PDF:192KB]Carlos Henrique CORSEUIL
(University College London / IPEA)
ICHIMURA Hidehiko
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / The University of Tokyo)
April 2006
06-E-023
A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Transmission Charge Reform in Japan's Electric Power Industry
Download paper [PDF:248KB]AKIYAMA Shu-ichi
(Kushiro Public University)
HOSOE Nobuhiro
(National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
April 2006
06-E-022
Licensing or Not Licensing?: Empirical Analysis on Strategic Use of Patent in Japanese Firms
Download paper [PDF:280KB]MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
April 2006
06-E-021
On Determinants of the Yen Weight in the Implicit Basket System in East Asia
Download paper [PDF:560KB]ITO Takatoshi
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / The University of Tokyo)
ORII Keisuke
(Keiai University)
April 2006
06-E-020
The Chinese Yuan after the Chinese Exchange Rate System Reform
Download paper [PDF:340KB]OGAWA Eiji
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University)
SAKANE Michiru
(Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University)
April 2006
06-E-019
Exchange Rate Changes and Inflation in Post-Crisis Asian Economies: VAR Analysis of the Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Download paper [PDF:504KB]ITO Takatoshi
(Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
SATO Kiyotaka
(Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University)
April 2006
06-E-018
