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Discussion Papers
"Innovation and Financing Structure"
by YANAGAWA Noriyuki (Faculty Fellow)
May 2007
"Determinants of Japanese Companies' Financial Attitudes and Behavior - Analysis based on a survey of companies in the Kansai region"
by YAMORI Nobuyoshi (Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University)
April 2007
"Relationships Between Locally-oriented Corporate Reconstruction Funds and Local Financial Institutions"
by MATSUO Junsuke (Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, St. Andrew's University)
July 2006
"Life Duration and Debt Structure of Financially Distressed SMEs"
by XU Peng (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University) and TSURUTA Daisuke (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies/CRD)
February 2006
"Effectiveness of Credit Guarantees in the Japanese Loan Market"
by Iichiro Uesugi (Fellow, RIETI), Koji Sakai (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University /RIETI) and Guy M. Yamashiro (Department of Economics, California State University, Long Beach)
February 2006
"Examining Main Bank Relationships in SME Finance - The Correlation between Efficiency and Lending Attitude among Regional Financial Institutions -"
by HARIMAYA Kozo (Faculty of Economics, Sapporo Gakuin University), NAGATA Takahiro (Rating and Investment Information, Inc.)
January 2006
"Bank Health and Small Business Investment: Evidence from Japan"
by Kaoru Hosono (Gakushuin University), Akane Masuda
December 2005
"Nonbank Financing and the Moral Hazard of SMEs"
by TSURUTA Daisuke (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
December 2005
"The Role of Collateral and Personal Guarantees in Relationship Lending: Evidence from Japan's Small Business Loan Market"
by Arito Ono (Mizuho Research Institute), Iichiro Uesugi (Fellow, RIETI)
November 2005
"Exploring Frontiers to Expand Banks' Lending to SMEs"
by MASUDA Yasuyoshi, Faculty of Economics, Toyo University
November 2005
"Does Main Bank's Health Matter in Firm Customers' Behavior? A Study Based on Bank-Firm Matching Data of SMEs"
by OGAWA Kazuo, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
November 2005
"Firm Age and the Evolution of Borrowing Costs: Evidence from Japanese Small Firms"
by Koji Sakai (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University), Iichiro Uesugi (Fellow, RIETI) and Tsutomu Watanabe (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
November 2005
"How Are Loans by Their Main Bank Priced? Bank Effects, Information and Non-price Terms of Contract"
by Wako Watanabe (Graduate School of Economics and Management Tohoku University)
November 2005
Keizai Sangyo Journal
"SME Financing in Japan: What We Have Found"
by UESUGI Iichiro, Fellow, RIETI
January 2006
Columns
"Is a Complete Departure from Collateral-based Lending Needed?"
by UESUGI Iichiro, Fellow, RIETI
June 20, 2006
"Is the Government's Intervention in the Bank Loan Market Justifiable?: Examining the Effect of the Special Credit Guarantee Program"
by UESUGI Iichiro, Fellow, RIETI
February 7, 2006
"Are Japanese Companies Subject to Natural Selection or Unnatural Selection?"
by UESUGI Iichiro, Fellow, RIETI
May 17, 2005
