Overview
2008 - 2010
For the Japanese economy to retain its vitality under conditions of decreasing population and the aging of society, it will be essential to achieve economic growth based on accelerated productivity growth. With this challenge in mind, this project, as a rule, annually updates the Japan Industrial Productivity Database (JIP), a basic source of data for analyzing Japan's economic growth and changes in its industrial structure, and analyzes the trends in TFP on a detailed industrial level with their determinants. In addition, by participating in "EU KLEMS," a joint international project on productivity in the European Union (EU), we compare Japan's industrial structure and productivity growth by industry with that of other industrialized countries, including the United States, the EU member countries and South Korea. Finally, we analyze the impact of the globalization of firms and their accumulation of intangible assets on their productivity. This is done using the JIP Micro Database, which covers most Japanese firms including those in the non-manufacturing sector, and microdata from government statistics.
April 21, 2008 - March 31, 2011
Major Research Results
2012
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 12-E-038
"Exposure to Low-wage Country Imports and the Growth of Japanese Manufacturing Plants" (Anna Maria MAYDA, NAKANE Masato, STEINBERG, Chad and YAMADA Hiroyuki) - 12-E-034
"Does New Entry Drive Out Incumbents? Evidence from establishment-level data in Japan" (ITO Keiko and KATO Masatoshi) - 12-E-024
"Intensive and Extensive Decisions of Firms with Spatial Dependency" (ITO Yukiko)
2011
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 12-E-001
"Technology and Capital Adjustment Costs: Micro evidence of automobile electronics in the auto-parts suppliers" (UCHIDA Ichihiro, TAKEDA Yosuke and SHIRAI Daichi) - 11-E-076
"How Important is Geographical Agglomeration to Factory Efficiency in Japan's Manufacturing Sector?" (FUKAO Kyoji, Victoria KRAVTSOVA and NAKAJIMA Kentaro) - 11-E-069
"The Overseas Subsidiary Activities and Their Impact on the Performance of Japanese Parent Firms" (EDAMURA Kazuma, Laura HERING, INUI Tomohiko and Sandra PONCET) - 11-E-068
"Do More Productive Firms Locate New Factories in More Productive Locations?
An empirical analysis based on panel data from Japan's Census of Manufactures" (FUKAO Kyoji, IKEUCHI Kenta, KIM YoungGak and KWON Hyeog Ug) - 11-E-064
"Revisiting Productivity Differences and Firm Turnover: Evidence from product-based TFP measures in the Japanese manufacturing industries" (KAWAKAMI Atsushi, MIYAGAWA Tsutomu and TAKIZAWA Miho)
2010
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 11-E-034
"Globalizing Corporate Activities in East Asia and Domestic Operations: Further evidence from Japanese manufacturing firms" (ANDO Mitsuyo and KIMURA Fukunari) - 11-E-033
"Trade Liberalization and FDI Strategy in Heterogeneous Firms: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data" (HAYAKAWA Kazunobu and MATSUURA Toshiyuki) - 11-E-025
"Simulating Heterogeneous Multinational Firms" (Shawn ARITA and TANAKA Kiyoyasu) - 11-E-003
"Accounting for China's Growth in 1952-2008: China's growth performance debate revisited with a newly constructed data set" (Harry X. WU) - 10-E-044
"Global Fixed Capital Investment by Multinational Firms" (René BELDERBOS, FUKAO Kyoji, ITO Keiko and Wilko LETTERIE) - 10-E-043
"Product Switching and Firm Performance in Japan" (KAWAKAMI Atsushi and MIYAGAWA Tsutomu) - 10-E-040
"Productivity, Markup, Scale Economies, and the Business Cycle: Estimates from firm-level panel data in Japan" (KIYOTA Kozo) - 10-E-037
"Why Do Some Firms Persistently Outperform Others? An investigation of the interactions between innovation and export strategies" (ITO Keiko and LECHEVALIER Sébastien) - 10-E-028
"Output Quality, Skill Intensity, and Factor Contents of Trade: An empirical analysis based on microdata of the Census of Manufactures" (FUKAO Kyoji and ITO Keiko) - 10-J-029
"Japan's Exports and Employment" (KIYOTA Kozo) - 10-E-015
"Working Hours of Part-timers and the Measurement of Firm-level Productivity" (MORIKAWA Masayuki)
RIETI Policy Discussion Papers
- 10-P-010
"Productivity Analysis Based on Microdata of Government Statistics" (ITO Keiko and MATSUURA Toshiyuki) - 10-P-007
"Service Sector Productivity in Japan: The key to future economic growth" (FUKAO Kyoji) - 10-P-004
"The Structural Causes of Japan's 'Two Lost Decades'" (YoungGak KIM, FUKAO Kyoji and MAKINO Tatsuji)
2009
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 09-E-052
"Resource Reallocation and Zombie Lending in Japan in the '90s" (KWON Hyeog Ug, NARITA Futoshi and NARITA Machiko) - 09-E-051
"Technological Externalities and Economic Distance: A case of the Japanese automobile suppliers" (TAKEDA Yosuke and UCHIDA Ichiro) - 09-E-049
"International Production Networks and Export/Import Responsiveness to Exchange Rates: The case of Japanese manufacturing firms" (ANDO Mitsuyo and IRIYAMA Akie) - 09-E-048
"Globalization, Productivity and Plant Exit—Evidence from Japan" (INUI Tomohiko, Rechard KNELLER, MATSUURA Toshiyuki and Danny McGWAN) - 09-E-021
"Estimates of Multifactor Productivity, ICT Contributions and Resource Reallocation Effects in Japan and Korea" (FUKAO Kyoji, MIYAGAWA Tsutomu, Hak K. PYO and Keun Hee RHEE) - 10-J-022
"Working Hours of Part-timers and the Measurement of Firm-level Productivity" (MORIKAWA Masayuki) - 09-J-032
"Do large scale investments improve corporate performance?" (TANAKA Kenji and MIYAGAWA Tsutomu) - 09-J-018
"Productivity Disparities Between Self-Employed Workers and Employees" (TOKUI Joji, MAKINO Tatsuji and TAKAHASHI Yoko)