Measuring Human Capital in Japan

MIYAZAWA Kensuke (Research Assistant, RIETI / Nihon University)
March 2011 11-E-037

Quality of Labor, Capital, and Productivity Growth in Japan: Effects of employee age, seniority, and capital vintage

SHINADA Naoki (Development Bank of Japan)
March 2011 11-E-036

Are Lending Relationships Beneficial or Harmful for Public Credit Guarantees? Evidence from Japan's Emergency Credit Guarantee Program

ONO Arito (Bank of Japan)
UESUGI Iichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
YASUDA Yukihiro (Tokyo Keizai University)
March 2011 11-E-035

Globalizing Corporate Activities in East Asia and Impact on Domestic Operations: Further evidence from Japanese manufacturing firms

ANDO Mitsuyo (Keio University)
KIMURA Fukunari (Keio University / ERIA)
March 2011 11-E-034

Trade Liberalization and FDI Strategy in Heterogeneous Firms: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

HAYAKAWA Kazunobu (Inter-Disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies)
MATSUURA Toshiyuki (Institute for Economic and Industrial Studies, Keio University)
March 2011 11-E-033

ODI and Home Country's Industrial Upgrading: Mechanism and preliminary evidence

ZHAO Wei (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Institute of International Economics, Zhejiang University)
JING Dong (Zhejiang University)
March 2011 11-E-032

Emerging Paradigm of Internationalization of China's Private-Owned Enterprises: Theoretical analysis and case study

ZHAO Wei (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Institute of International Economics, Zhejiang University)
March 2011 11-E-031

Temporary Workers, Permanent Workers, and International Trade: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

MATSUURA Toshiyuki (Keio University)
SATO Hitoshi (Fellow, RIETI)
WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Research Counselor, RIETI / Kyoto University)
March 2011 11-E-030

Temporary Jobs and Globalization: Evidence from Japan

MACHIKITA Tomohiro (Institute of Developing Economies)
SATO Hitoshi (Fellow, RIETI)
March 2011 11-E-029

Contributing or Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy

FURUSAWA Taiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
KONISHI Hideo (Boston College)
March 2011 11-E-028

Does the Structure of Multinational Enterprises' Activity Affect Technology Spillovers?

JINJI Naoto (Kyoto University)
ZHANG Xingyuan (Okayama University)
HARUNA Shoji (Okayama University)
March 2011 11-E-027

Effects of CEOs' Characteristics on Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan

TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / the University of Tokyo)
SATO Hitoshi (Fellow, RIETI)
March 2011 11-E-026

Simulating Heterogeneous Multinational Firms

Shawn ARITA (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
TANAKA Kiyoyasu (Institute of Developing Economies)
March 2011 11-E-025

Firm's demand for work hours: Evidence from multi-country and matched firm-worker data

KURODA Sachiko (the University of Tokyo)
YAMAMOTO Isamu (Keio University)
March 2011 11-E-024

Aggregate Impacts of Natural and Man-made Disasters: A quantitative comparison

SAWADA Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / the University of Tokyo)
Rima BHATTCHARYAY (Research Assistant, RIETI)
KOTERA Tomoaki (Research Assistant, RIETI / the University of Tokyo)
March 2011 11-E-023

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations of Inventors

OWAN Hideo (the University of Tokyo)
NAGAOKA Sadao (Research Counselor, RIETI / Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
March 2011 11-E-022

Why Has the Fraction of Contingent Workers Increased? A case study of Japan

ASANO Hirokatsu (Asia University)
ITO Takahiro (Osaka University)
KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
March 2011 11-E-021

Impacts of the Japan-Mexico EPA on Bilateral Trade

ANDO Mitsuyo (Keio University)
URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Waseda University)
March 2011 11-E-020

The Evolution of House Price Distribution

OHNISHI Takaaki (Canon Institute for Global Studies / the University of Tokyo)
MIZUNO Takayuki (University of Tsukuba)
SHIMIZU Chihiro (Reitaku University)
WATANABE Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
March 2011 11-E-019

Standards as a Knowledge Source for R&D: A first look at their incidence and impacts based on the inventor survey and patent bibliographic data

TSUKADA Naotoshi (Hitotsubashi University)
NAGAOKA Sadao (Research Counselor, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
March 2011 11-E-018

Self-Production, Friction, and Risk Sharing against Disasters: Evidence from a developing country

SAWADA Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo)
NAKATA Hiroyuki (Essex Business School, University of Essex)
KOTERA Tomoaki (Research Assistant, RIETI / Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo)
March 2011 11-E-017

Productivity of Banks and its Impact on the Capital Investments of Client Firms

MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Research Institute of Capital Formation, Development Bank of Japan)
INUI Tomohiko (Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office)
SHOJI Keishi (House of Representatives)
March 2011 11-E-016

Investment Risk, Pareto Distribution, and the Effects of Tax

NIREI Makoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
March 2011 11-E-015

Are Capital Intensive Firms the Biggest Exporters?

Rikard FORSLID (Stockholm University and CEPR)
OKUBO Toshihiro (Kobe University)
March 2011 11-E-014

Debt, Ownership Structure, and R&D Investment: Evidence from Japan

ARIKAWA Yasuhiro (Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law, Waseda University / WCFIA, Harvard University)
KAWANISHI Takuya (Graduate School of Law, Waseda University / Research Assistant, RIETI)
MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University / Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)
March 2011 11-E-013

Financial Crises and Assets as Media of Exchange

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
February 2011 11-E-012

A Bad-Asset Theory of Financial Crises

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
February 2011 11-E-011

A Model of Financial Crises: Coordination failure due to bad assets

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
February 2011 11-E-010

A Financial Crisis in a Monetary Economy

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
February 2011 11-E-009

Examining the University Industry Collaboration Policy in Japan: Patent analysis

MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / The University of Tokyo )
MURAMATSU Shingo (The University of Tokyo)
February 2011 11-E-008

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A first look at linkage data of Japanese patent and enterprise census

MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / The University of Tokyo )
February 2011 11-E-007

Is Emission Trading Beneficial?

ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
KIYONO Kazuharu (Waseda University)
YOMOGIDA Morihiro (Sophia University)
February 2011 11-E-006

An Application of Business Cycle Accounting with Misspecified Wedges

NUTAHARA Kengo (Department of Economics, Senshu University)
INABA Masaru (The Canon Institute for Global Studies)
February 2011 11-E-005
Appenndix [PDF:146KB]

An Analysis of Unilateral and Cross-licensing Based on an Inventor Survey in Japan: Effects of uncertainty, rent dissipation and a bundle of patents on corporate licenses

NAGAOKA Sadao (Research Counselor, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
January 2011 11-E-004

Accounting for China's Growth in 1952-2008: China's growth performance debate revisited with a newly constructed data set

Harry X. WU (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University / The Conference Board China Center)
January 2011 11-E-003

An Econometric Analysis of Firm Specific Productivities: Evidence from Japanese plant level data

ICHIMURA Hidehiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Graduate School of Economics, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo)
KONISHI Yoko (Fellow, RIETI / Japan JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad / Yale University)
NISHIYAMA Yoshihiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
January 2011 11-E-002

Heterogeneity and the Structure of Exports and FDI: A cross-industry analysis of Japanese manufacturing

TANAKA Ayumu (Fellow, RIETI)
January 2011 11-E-001
Supplementary Appendix [ZIP:52KB]

Ownership Structure and Productivity of Vertical Research Collaboration

NAGAOKA Sadao (Research Counselor, Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
December 2010 10-E-064

The Structure of Enterprise Law: Interrelationships among contracts, markets, and laws in the bargaining structure of the firm

SHISHIDO Zenichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy)
December 2010 10-E-063

Emission Credit Trading and Regional Inequalities

TAKATSUKA Hajime (Kagawa University)
NAKAMURA Ryohei (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Okayama University)
December 2010 10-E-062

Nominal Rigidities and News-Driven Business Cycles in a Medium-Scale DSGE Economy

NUTAHARA Kengo (Senshu University)
December 2010 10-E-061

Asset Prices and Monetary Policy in a Sticky-Price Economy with Financial Frictions

NUTAHARA Kengo (Senshu University)
December 2010 10-E-060

Assessing Anticipatory Effects in the Presence of Antidumping Duties: Canadian softwood lumber

KITANO Taiju (National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies)
OHASHI Hiroshi (The University of Tokyo / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
November 2010 10-E-059

Does Japanese Liquor Taste Different?: Empirical analysis on the national treatment under the WTO

OHASHI Hiroshi (The University of Tokyo / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
NAKAJIMA Kentaro (Hitotsubashi University)
DOI Naoshi (The University of Tokyo / Research Assistant, RIETI)
November 2010 10-E-058

Similarities and Differences between the Manufacturing and the Service Sectors: An empirical analysis of Japanese automobile related industries

KATO Atsuyuki (Asian Development Bank Institute / Research Associate, RIETI)
October 2010 10-E-057

Spatial Relocation with Heterogeneous Firms and Heterogeneous Sectors

OKUBO Toshihiro (Kobe University)
Rikard FORSLID (University of Stockholm)
October 2010 10-E-056

Environmental Outsourcing

OKUBO Toshihiro (Kobe University)
Matthew A. COLE (University of Birmingham)
Robert J.R. ELLIOTT (University of Birmingham)
October 2010 10-E-055

Cross-Border Alliances and Product Market Competition

TAKECHI Kazutaka (Hosei University)
October 2010 10-E-054

Anatomy of Learning-from-Exporting: Role of foreign knowledge acquisition

YASHIRO Naomitsu (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
HIRANO Daisuke (Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research Center of Advanced Policy Studies)
October 2010 10-E-053

Insecurity of Employment and Work-Life Balance: From the viewpoint of compensating wage differentials

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
October 2010 10-E-052

Productivity of Service Providers: Microeconometric measurement in the case of hair salons

KONISHI Yoko (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad, Yale University / Fellow, RIETI)
NISHIYAMA Yoshihiko (Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
October 2010 10-E-051

Economies of Scale and Hospital Productivity: An empirical analysis of medical area level panel data

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
October 2010 10-E-050

Incentive Pay or Windfalls: Remuneration for employee inventions in Japan

ONISHI Koichiro (Faculty of Intellectual Property, Osaka Institute of Technology)
OWAN Hideo (Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)
October 2010 10-E-049

Financial Distress and Industry Structure: An inter-industry approach to the "Lost Decade" in Japan

OGAWA Kazuo (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University)
Elmer STERKEN (Department of Economics, University of Groningen)
TOKUTSU Ichiro (Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University)
October 2010 10-E-048

Regional Financial Soundness and R&D Activities

GOTO Yasuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
October 2010 10-E-047

The Effects of Congestion and Skills at a Hair Salon on the Consumer's Revisiting Behavior

KONISHI Yoko (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad, Yale University / Fellow, RIETI)
October 2010 10-E-046

New Estimates of the Equilibrium Exchange Rate: The case for the Chinese renminbi

SATO Kiyotaka (Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University)
SHIMIZU Junko (School of Commerce, Senshu University)
Nagendra SHRESTHA (Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University)
Zhaoyong ZHANG (School of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Edith Cowan University)
September 2010 10-E-045

Global Fixed Capital Investment by Multinational Firms

René BELDERBOS (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven / Maastricht University / UNU-MERIT)
FUKAO Kyoji (Hitotsubashi University / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
ITO Keiko (Senshu University)
Wilko LETTERIE (Maastricht University)
September 2010 10-E-044
Non Technical Summary (RIETI Report)

Product Switching and Firm Performance in Japan

KAWAKAMI Atsushi (Gakushuin University Research Institute for Economics and Management / Research Assistant, RIETI)
MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Gakushuin University / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
September 2010 10-E-043

Use of FTAs in Australia

Richard POMFRET (School of Economics, the University of Adelaide)
Uwe KAUFMANN (School of Economics, the University of Adelaide)
Christopher FINDLAY (School of Economics, the University of Adelaide)
August 2010 10-E-042

Repayment Enforcement and Informational Advantages: Empirical determinants of trade credit use

UCHIDA Hirofumi (Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University)
UESUGI Iichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
HOTEI Masaki (Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance)
August 2010 10-E-041

Productivity, Markup, Scale Economies, and the Business Cycle: Estimates from firm-level panel data in Japan

KIYOTA Kozo (Faculty of Business Administration, Yokohama National University)
July 2010 10-E-040

Exporters' Response to FTA Tariff Preferences: Evidence from Thailand

Archanun KOHPAIBOON (Thammasat University)
July 2010 10-E-039

Business Use of FTAs in Korea

Inkyo CHEONG (Inha University)
Hansung KIM (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP))
Jungran CHO (Inha University)
June 2010 10-E-038

Why Do Some Firms Persistently Outperform Others? An investigation of the interactions between innovation and export strategies

ITO Keiko (Senshu University)
Sébastien LECHEVALIER (L'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) (Paris))
June 2010 10-E-037

Efficiency of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) when Fishers are able to Choose Vessel Sizes: An experimental approach

HIGASHIDA Keisaku (Kwansei Gakuin University)
MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
July 2010 10-E-036

Shared Renewable Resource and International Trade: Technical measures for fisheries management

TAKARADA Yasuhiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
June 2010 10-E-035

Determinants of Currency Invoicing in Japanese Exports: A firm-level analysis

ITO Takatoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
KOIBUCHI Satoshi (Chuo University)
SATO Kiyotaka (Yokohama National University)
SHIMIZU Junko (Senshu University)
June 2010 10-E-034
Non Technical Summary (RIETI Report)

Does Firm Boundary Matter? The effect of offshoring on productivity of Japanese firms

ITO Banri (Fellow, RIETI)
TOMIURA Eiichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Research Counselor, RIETI)
June 2010 10-E-033

Offshoring and Corporate Headquarters: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

TOMIURA Eiichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
ITO Banri (Fellow, RIETI)
WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Research Counselor, RIETI)
June 2010 10-E-032

Mark-up, Productivity and Imperfect Competition: An empirical analysis of the Japanese retail trade industry

KATO Atsuyuki (Fellow, RIETI)
June 2010 10-E-031

Measuring Economic Localization: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

NAKAJIMA Kentaro (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
SAITO Yukiko (Fujitsu Research Institute)
UESUGI Iichiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
June 2010 10-E-030

Small Business Credit Scoring: Evidence from Japan

HASUMI Ryo (Japan Center for Economic Research)
HIRATA Hideaki (Hosei University / Japan Center for Economic Research)
June 2010 10-E-029

Output Quality, Skill Intensity, and Factor Contents of Trade: An empirical analysis based on microdata of the Census of Manufactures

FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
ITO Keiko (Senshu University)
June 2010 10-E-028

Regional Monetary Coordination in Asia after the Global Financial Crisis: Comparison in regional monetary stability between ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+3+3

OGAWA Eiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
May 2010 10-E-027
Non Technical Summary (RIETI Report)

How Do Chinese Industries Benefit from FDI Spillovers?

ITO Banri (Fellow, RIETI)
YASHIRO Naomitsu (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
XU Zhaoyuan (Enterprise Research Institute of the Developing Research Center of the State Council)
CHEN Xiaohong (Enterprise Research Institute of the Developing Research Center of the State Council)
WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Research Counselor, RIETI)
May 2010 10-E-026

Volatility, Nonstandard Employment, and Productivity: An empirical analysis using firm-level data

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
April 2010 10-E-025

The Dynamics of Knowledge Diversity and Economic Growth

Marcus BERLIANT (Washington University)
FUJITA Masahisa (President, RIETI)
April 2010 10-E-024
Non Technical Summary (RIETI Report)

Subsidies, Fisheries Management, and International Trade

JINJI Naoto (Kyoto University)
April 2010 10-E-023

Managerial Entrenchment and Anti-takeover Provisions in Japan

HOSONO Kaoru (Gakushuin University)
TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University)
TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
April 2010 10-E-022

Empirical Study of IPTV Diffusion: Comparison between Japan and Korea

KINUGASA Satoshi (Bank of Japan)
MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
Yeong-Wha SAWNG (Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute)
TERADA Shinichiro (the University of Tokyo)
April 2010 10-E-021

Bargaining in Technology Markets: An empirical study of biotechnology alliances

KINUKAWA Shinya (Komazawa University)
MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
April 2010 10-E-020

Educational Support and Individual Ability with Endogenous Fertility

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
OSHIO Takashi (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
TAKAHATA Junichiro (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
April 2010 10-E-019

Environmental Standards under International Oligopoly

ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
OKUBO Toshihiro (Kobe University)
April 2010 10-E-018

Productivity Distribution, Firm Heterogeneity, and Agglomeration: Evidence from firm-level data

OKUBO Toshihiro (Kobe University)
TOMIURA Eiichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
April 2010 10-E-017

Industrial Relocation Policy and Heterogeneous Plants Sorted by Productivity: Evidence from Japan

OKUBO Toshihiro (Kobe University)
TOMIURA Eiichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
April 2010 10-E-016

Working Hours of Part-timers and the Measurement of Firm-level Productivity

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
April 2010 10-E-015