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March 2016 16-E-062
Problem Solving and Intermediation by Local Public Technology Centers in Regional Innovation Systems: The first report on a branch-level survey on technical consultation
- FUKUGAWA Nobuya (Tohoku University) / GOTO Akira (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-061
Knowledge Creation and Dissemination by Local Public Technology Centers in Regional and Sectoral Innovation Systems: Insights from patent data
- FUKUGAWA Nobuya (Tohoku University)
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March 2016 16-E-060
Working Hours, Promotion, and Gender Gaps in the Workplace
- KATO Takao (Colgate University) / OGAWA Hiromasa (GRIPS) / OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-059
Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluation
- KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TAKAHASHI Kazuteru (Kyushu Sangyo University)
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March 2016 16-E-058
Loyalty and Consumption: A CES representation
- INOSE Junya (University of Tokyo)
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March 2016 16-E-057
Shock Propagations in Granular Networks
- FUJII Daisuke (Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-056
Does the Policy Lending of a Government Financial Institution to Mitigate the Credit Crunch Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from loan level data in Japan
- SEKINO Masahiro (ISI Software Co., Ltd) / WATANABE Wako (Keio University)
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March 2016 16-E-055
Production Networks, Geography, and Firm Performance
- Andrew B. BERNARD (Dartmouth College) / Andreas MOXNES (University of Oslo) / SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-054
Efficiency of the Retail Industry: Case of inelastic supply functions
- KONISHI Yoko (Senior Fellow,RIETI) / NISHIYAMA Yoshihiko (Kyoto University)
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March 2016 16-E-053
Convergence or Emerging Diversity? Understanding the impact of foreign investors on corporate governance in Japan
- MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / OGAWA Ryo (Waseda University)
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March 2016 16-E-052
The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on Consumption: Evidence from Japan's 2014 VAT increase
- David CASHIN (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) / UNAYAMA Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-051
Declining Rate of Return on Capital and the Role of Intangibles in Japan
- MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University) / TONOGI Konomi (Kanagawa University)
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March 2016 16-E-050
Trade and Labor Market Dynamics
- Lorenzo CALIENDO (Yale University) / Maximiliano DVORKIN (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) / Fernando PARRO (Federal Reserve Board)
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March 2016 16-E-049
The Regional Spillover Effects of the Tohoku Earthquake
- Robert DEKLE (University of Southern California) / Eunpyo HONG (University of Southern California) / Wei XIE (University of Southern California)
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March 2016 16-E-048
Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, exports, and the labor market
- Jonathan EATON (Pennsylvania State University) / Samuel KORTUM (Yale University) / Francis KRAMARZ (CREST, ENSAE)
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March 2016 16-E-047
Two-sided Heterogeneity and Trade
- Andrew B. BERNARD (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth) / Andreas MOXNES (University of Oslo) / Karen Helene ULLTVEIT-MOE (University of Oslo)
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March 2016 16-E-046
DebtRank Analysis of Financial Distress Propagation on a Production Network in Japan
- FUJIWARA Yoshi (University of Hyogo) / TERAI Masaaki (RIKEN) / FUJITA Yuji (Turnstone Research Institute, Inc.) / SOUMA Wataru (Nihon University)
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March 2016 16-E-045
Exports, Exchange Rates, and Productivity: An analysis of the Japanese manufacturing sectors
- KATO Atsuyuki (Research Associate, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-044
Analyses of Aggregate Fluctuations of Firm Networks Based on the Self-Organized Criticality Model and Control Theory
- INOUE Hiroyasu (University of Hyogo)
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March 2016 16-E-043
Keidanren, Consumption Tax, and the Lost Decade of the 1990s in Japan
- W. Miles FLETCHER III (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) / TAKEDA Haruhito (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-042
The Telling of Japan's "Lost Decade": A comparison with the narration of the U.S. and EU crises
- Peter VON STADEN (KEDGE Business School) / KAWAMURA Satoshi (Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-041
Role of Public Research Institutes in National Innovation Systems in Industrialized Countries: The cases of Fraunhofer, NIST, CSIRO, AIST, and ITRI
- Patarapong INTARAKUMNERD (GRIPS) / GOTO Akira (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-040
Estimation of Aggregate Demand and Supply Shocks Using Commodity Transaction Data
- ABE Naohito (Hitotsubashi University) / INAKURA Noriko (Osaka Sangyo University) / TONOGI Akiyuki (Hitotsubashi University)
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March 2016 16-E-039
Impacts of Oil Shocks on Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Variables: A multi-country analysis
- IWAISAKO Tokuo (Hitotsubashi University) / NAKATA Hayato (Meisei University)
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March 2016 16-E-038
Inertia of the U.S. Dollar as a Key Currency through the Two Crises
- OGAWA Eiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / MUTO Makoto (Hitotsubashi University)
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March 2016 16-E-037
Why Do People Overwork at the Risk of Impairing Mental Health?
- KURODA Sachiko (Waseda University) / YAMAMOTO Isamu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-036
Promoting Innovation in Small Markets: Evidence from the market for rare and intractable diseases
- IIZUKA Toshiaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / UCHIDA Gyo (University of Tokyo)
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March 2016 16-E-035
How do Hospitals Adopt Advanced Treatment Techniques? An assessment through the records of AMI patients in Japan
- SUGIHARA Shigeru (ESRI, Cabinet Office) / ICHIMIYA Hiroki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) / INUI Tomohiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / ITO Yukiko (Tokyo Gakugei University) / SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / IGARASHI Isao (Tokyo Medical and Dental University) / KAWABUCHI Koichi (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
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March 2016 16-E-034
Exchange Rate Pass-through in Production Chains: Application of input-output analysis
- Huong Le Thu HOANG (Yokohama National University) / SATO Kiyotaka (Yokohama National University)
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March 2016 16-E-033
The International Use of the Renminbi: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data
- SATO Kiyotaka (Yokohama National University) / SHIMIZU Junko (Gakushuin University)
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March 2016 16-E-032
Firm Growth by Product Innovation in the Presence of the Product Life Cycle
- MURAKAMI Hiroki (University of Tokyo)
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March 2016 16-E-031
Choice of Invoice Currency in Japanese Trade: Industry and commodity level analysis
- ITO Takatoshi (Program Director, RIETI) / KOIBUCHI Satoshi (Chuo University) / SATO Kiyotaka (Yokohama National University) / SHIMIZU Junko (Gakushuin University)
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March 2016 16-E-030
Multiple Lenders, Temporary Debt Restructuring, and Firm Performance: Evidence from contract-level data
- MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University) / OHASHI Kazuhiko (Hitotsubashi University)
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March 2016 16-E-029
The More-Money and Less-Cash Effects of Diversification: Evidence from Japanese firms
- USHIJIMA Tatsuo (Keio University)
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March 2016 16-E-028
From Economic Controls to Export Expansion in Postwar Taiwan: 1946-1960
- Tsong-Min WU (National Taiwan University)
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March 2016 16-E-027
Private News and Monetary Policy: Forward guidance or the expected virtue of ignorance
- FUJIWARA Ippei (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / WAKI Yuichiro (University of Queensland)
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March 2016 16-E-026
Econophysics Point of View of Trade Liberalization: Community dynamics, synchronization, and controllability as example of collective motions
- IKEDA Yuichi (Kyoto University) / AOYAMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / IYETOMI Hiroshi (Niigata University) / MIZUNO Takayuki (National Institute of Informatics) / OHNISHI Takaaki (University of Tokyo) / SAKAMOTO Yohei (Kyoto University) / WATANABE Tsutomu (University of Tokyo)
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March 2016 16-E-025
Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in the Corporate Insurance Market: Evidence from the 2011 Thailand floods
- ADACHI Daisuke (Yale University) / NAKATA Hiroyuki (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / SAWADA Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / SEKIGUCHI Kunio (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-024
Complementarity and Substitutability between Tangible and Intangible Capital: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data
- HOSONO Kaoru (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University) / TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University) / YAMANOUCHI Kenta (Keio University)
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March 2016 16-E-023
A Comparison of the Lending Technologies between Private and Public Banks
- UCHIDA Hirofumi (Kobe University)
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March 2016 16-E-022
Incidence of Corporate Income Tax and Optimal Capital Structure: A dynamic analysis
- DOI Takero (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-021
Employment and Starting Wages of New Graduates in China: Using the latest available survey data
- LIU Yang (Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-020
The Incidence of Health Insurance Costs: Empirical evidence from Japan
- HAMAAKI Junya (Hosei University)
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March 2016 16-E-019
Understanding the Cross-country Productivity Gap of Exporters
- KIYOTA Kozo (Research Associate, RIETI) / MATSUURA Toshiyuki (Keio University) / Lionel NESTA (OFCE-Science Po)
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March 2016 16-E-018
Agglomeration Patterns in a Long Narrow Economy of a New Economic Geography Model: Analogy to a racetrack economy
- IKEDA Kiyohiro (Tohoku University) / MUROTA Kazuo (Tokyo Metropolitan University) / AKAMATSU Takashi (Tohoku University) / TAKAYAMA Yuki (Kanazawa University)
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March 2016 16-E-017
Workers' Mental Health, Long Work Hours, and Workplace Management: Evidence from workers' longitudinal data in Japan
- KURODA Sachiko (Waseda University) / YAMAMOTO Isamu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2016 16-E-016
Does Mental Health Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from longitudinal Japanese firm data
- KURODA Sachiko (Waseda University) / YAMAMOTO Isamu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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February 2016 16-E-015
Transplanting Corporate Culture across International Borders: FDI and female employment in Japan
- KODAMA Naomi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / Beata S. JAVORCIK (University of Oxford) / ABE Yukiko (Hokkaido University)
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February 2016 16-E-014
Business Uncertainty and Investment: Evidence from Japanese companies
- MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice Chairman & Vice President, RIETI)
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February 2016 16-E-013
Policy Uncertainty and the Cost of Delaying Reform: A case of aging Japan
- KITAO Sagiri (Keio University)
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February 2016 16-E-012
Persistent Demand Shortage Due to Household Debt
- KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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February 2016 16-E-011
Gender Gaps in Japan and Korea: A comparative study on the rates of promotions to managing positions
- YOUM Yoosik (Visiting Fellow, RIETI) / YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
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February 2016 16-E-010
Uncertainty over Exchange Rates and Exports: Evidence from dispersion of expectations as a measure of uncertainty
- MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice Chairman & Vice President, RIETI)
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February 2016 16-E-009
Agglomerations in a Multi-region Economy: Polycentric versus monocentric patterns
- AKAMATSU Takashi (Tohoku University) / MORI Tomoya (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TAKAYAMA Yuki (Kanazawa University)
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February 2016 16-E-008
Structural Estimation of the Scoring Auction Model
- NAKABAYASHI Jun (Tohoku University) / HIROSE Yohsuke (Meiji Gakuin University)
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January 2016 16-E-007
Substitution between Purchased Electricity and Fuel for Onsite Power Generation in the Manufacturing Industry: Plant level analysis in Japan
- KITAMURA Toshihiko (Kyushu University) /MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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January 2016 16-E-006
Backfiring with Backhaul Problems: Trade and industrial policies with endogenous transport costs
- ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TARUI Nori (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
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January 2016 16-E-005
Trade Invoicing in the Major Currencies in the 1970s-1990s: Lessons for renminbi internationalization
- ITO Hiroyuki (Visiting Fellow, RIETI) / KAWAI Masahiro (University of Tokyo)
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January 2016 16-E-004
The Objective Function of Government-controlled Banks in a Financial Crisis
- OGURA Yoshiaki (Waseda University)
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January 2016 16-E-003
Estimating the Impacts of FTA on Foreign Trade: An analysis of extensive and intensive trade margins for the Japan-Mexico FTA
- KUNO Arata (Kyorin University) /URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /YOKOTA Kazuhiko (Waseda University)
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January 2016 16-E-002
Multi-plant Operation and Corporate Headquarters Separation: Evidence from Japanese plant-level panel data
- OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University) / TOMIURA Eiichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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January 2016 16-E-001
Intra-Firm Linkages in Multi-Segment Firms: Evidence from the Japanese manufacturing sector
- OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University) / Kirill BORUSYAK (Harvard University)
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December 2015 15-E-143
Input-Output Linkages of Japanese Affiliates in Mexico within NAFTA
- KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)
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December 2015 15-E-142
Labor Market and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap: Evidence from urban China
- LIU Yang (Fellow, RIETI) / KAWATA Keisuke (Hiroshima University)
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December 2015 15-E-141
Capital Supply Channel through Venture Capitals: Evidence from matched data
- MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University) /TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University)
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December 2015 15-E-140
Declining Trends in the Real Interest Rate and Inflation: Role of aging
- FUJITA Shigeru (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) / FUJIWARA Ippei (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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December 2015 15-E-139
The Effect of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Employment in a Segmented Labor Market
- YOKOYAMA Izumi (Hitotsubashi University) / HIGA Kazuhito (Kyushu University) / KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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December 2015 15-E-138
Accounting Information Quality and Government Guaranteed Loans: Evidence from Japanese SMEs
- Hyonok KIM (Tokyo Keizai University) / YASUDA Yukihiro (Hitotsubashi University)
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December 2015 15-E-137
Product Dynamics and Aggregate Shocks: Evidence from Japanese product and firm level data
- Robert DEKLE (University of Southern California) /KAWAKAMI Atsushi (Teikyo University) /KIYOTAKI Nobuhiro (Princeton University) /MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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December 2015 15-E-136
Evolution of Standards and Innovation
- AOKI Reiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /ARAI Yasuhiro (Kochi University)
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December 2015 15-E-135
Demand for Secondhand Goods and Consumers' Preference in Developing Countries: An analysis using the field experimental data of Vietnamese consumers
- HIGASHIDA Keisaku (Kwansei Gakuin University) /Nguyen Ngoc MAI (Hanoi Foreign Trade University)
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November 2015 15-E-134
Identifying Competition Neutrality of SOEs in China
- WATANABE Mariko (Gakushuin University)
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November 2015 15-E-133
The Role of Individual Social Capital in Wage Determination: Evidence from China
- LIU Yang (Fellow, RIETI)
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November 2015 15-E-132
Dynamic Effects of Patent Pools: Evidence from inter-generational competition in optical disk industry
- SHIMBO Tomoyuki (Kanto Gakuin University) / NAGAOKA Sadao (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TSUKADA Naotoshi (Research Associate, RIETI)
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November 2015 15-E-131
Understanding the Evolution of Japan's Exports
- THORBECKE, Willem (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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November 2015 15-E-130
Does Exporting Improve Firms' CO₂ Emissions Intensity and Energy Intensity? Evidence from Japanese manufacturing
- JINJI Naoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /SAKAMOTO Hiroaki (Chiba University)
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November 2015 15-E-129
Can Guest Workers Solve Japan's Fiscal Problems?
- Selahattin IMROHOROGLU (Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California) / KITAO Sagiri (Keio University) / YAMADA Tomoaki (Meiji University)
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November 2015 15-E-128
Inventors' Mobility and Organizations' Productivity: Evidence from Japanese rare name inventors
- SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI) /YAMAUCHI Isamu (Fellow, RIETI)
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November 2015 15-E-127
Effect of Foreign Affiliates on Exporting and Markups
- ZHANG Hongyong (Fellow, RIETI) / ZHU Lianming (Kyoto University)
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November 2015 15-E-126
How Does UNESCO's Convention on Cultural Diversity Affect Trade in Cultural Goods?
- JINJI Naoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TANAKA Ayumu (Research Associate, RIETI)
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November 2015 15-E-125
Discriminatory Application of Competition Law and International Investment Agreements
- TAMADA Dai (Kobe University)
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November 2015 15-E-124
Lessons from Japan's Secular Stagnation
- FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /IKEUCHI Kenta (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) /KWON Hyeog Ug (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /YoungGak KIM (Senshu University) /MAKINO Tatsuji (Hitotsubashi University)/TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University)
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October 2015 15-E-123
Regional Factor Inputs and Convergence in Japan: A macro-level analysis, 1955-2008
- FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /MAKINO Tatsuji (Hitotsubashi University) /TOKUI Joji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 2015 15-E-122
Offshoring, Relationship-Specificity, and Domestic Production Networks
- FURUSAWA Taiji (Hitotsubashi University) /ITO Keiko (Senshu University) /INUI Tomohiko (Faculty Fellow) /Heiwai TANG (Johns Hopkins University)
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October 2015 15-E-121
Loan Monitoring and Bank Risk
- Norvald INSTEFJORD (University of Essex) /NAKATA Hiroyuki (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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October 2015 15-E-120
Macroeconomic Consequences of Lumpy Investment under Uncertainty
- ARATA Yoshiyuki (Fellow, RIETI) / KIMURA Yosuke (University of Tokyo) / MURAKAMI Hiroki (University of Tokyo)
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October 2015 15-E-119
Clamoring for Greenbacks: Explaining the resurgence of the U.S. dollar in international debt
- ITO Hiroyuki (Visiting Fellow, RIETI) /Cesar RODRIGUEZ (Portland State University)
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October 2015 15-E-118
Elastic Labor Supply and Agglomeration
- AGO Takanori (Senshu University) / MORITA Tadashi (Kindai University) / TABUCHI Takatoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / YAMAMOTO Kazuhiro (Osaka University)
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October 2015 15-E-117
Wealth Inequality, or r-g, in the Economic Growth Model
- HIRAGUCHI Ryoji (Chiba University)
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October 2015 15-E-116
Illegal Immigration and Multiple Destinations
- MIYAGIWA Kaz (Florida International University) / SATO Yasuhiro (Osaka University)
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September 2015 15-E-115
Trends in Stock-Bond Correlations
- OHMI Harumi (Mizuho-DL Financial Technology Co., Ltd.) /OKIMOTO Tatsuyoshi (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
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September 2015 15-E-114
Impacts of Leaving Paid Work on Health, Functions, and Lifestyle Behavior: Evidence from JSTAR panel data
- HASHIMOTO Hideki (University of Tokyo)
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September 2015 15-E-113
Combining Knowledge and Capabilities across Borders and Nationalities: Evidence from the inventions applied through PCT
- TSUKADA Naotoshi (Research Associate, RIETI) /NAGAOKA Sadao (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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September 2015 15-E-112
Work-Life Balance Practices, Performance-Related Pay, and Gender Equality in the Workplace: Evidence from Japan
- KATO Takao (Colgate University) /KODAMA Naomi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
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September 2015 15-E-111
Team Production and the Allocation of Creativity across Global and Local Sectors
- NAGAMACHI Kohei (Kagawa University)
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September 2015 15-E-110
Competition between Cities and Their Spatial Structure
- AGO Takanori (Senshu University)
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September 2015 15-E-109
Trade Integration, Welfare, and Horizontal Multinationals: A three-country model
- Fabio CERINA (CRENoS, University of Cagliari) /MORITA Tadashi (Kindai University) /YAMAMOTO Kazuhiro (Osaka University)
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September 2015 15-E-108
Knowledge Turnover and Innovation Quality: Evidence from the Japanese Patent Database (Revised)(Previous title) Fresh Brain Power and Quality of Innovation in Cities: Evidence from the Japanese patent database*
- HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)
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September 2015 15-E-107
The Role of the Precautionary and Polluter Pays Principles in Assessing Compensation
- ISHIKAWA Tomoko (University of Tsukuba)
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September 2015 15-E-106
Wage Premiums for Exporters and Multinational Enterprises: Evidence from Japanese linked employer-employee data
- TANAKA Ayumu (Research Associate, RIETI)
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August 2015 15-E-105
The Use of Science for Inventions and its Identification: Patent level evidence matched with survey
- NAGAOKA Sadao (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /YAMAUCHI Isamu (Fellow, RIETI)
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August 2015 15-E-104
Impacts of Japan's FTAs on Trade: The cases of FTAs with Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia
- ANDO Mitsuyo (Keio University) /URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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August 2015 15-E-103
Product Switching and the Business Cycle
- Andrew B. BERNARD (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, CEPR & NBER) /OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University)
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August 2015 15-E-102
Female Labor Force Participation in Asia: Lessons from the Nordics
- KINOSHITA Yuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) /GUO Fang (Hubei University)
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August 2015 15-E-101
Are There Trade-offs between the Existing and New Foreign Activities?
- ITO Yukiko (Tokyo Gakugei University)
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August 2015 15-E-100
An Airline Merger and its Remedies: JAL-JAS of 2002
- DOI Naoshi (Sapporo Gakuin University) / OHASHI Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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August 2015 15-E-099
Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?
- USUI Emiko (Hitotsubashi University) / SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / OSHIO Takashi (Hitotsubashi University)
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August 2015 15-E-098
Asymmetric Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Japanese Exports: Application of the threshold vector autoregressive model
- Thi-Ngoc Anh NGUYEN (Yokohama National University) / SATO Kiyotaka (Yokohama National University)
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August 2015 15-E-097
The Effectiveness of Pre-Disaster Planning and Post-Disaster Aid: Examining the impact on plants of the Great East Japan Earthquake
- Matthew A. COLE (University of Birmingham) / Robert J R ELLIOTT (University of Birmingham) / OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University) / Eric STROBL (Ecole Polytechnique)
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August 2015 15-E-096
Cognitive Distances in Prior Art Search by the Triadic Patent Offices: Empirical evidence from international search reports
- WADA Tetsuo (Gakushuin University)
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July 2015 15-E-095
Understanding the Health Effects of the Death of Spouses in Modern China: Evidence from the city of Qingdao
- KAWATA Keisuke (Hiroshima University) /WANG Meixin (Qingdao University) /YIN Ting (Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:268KB]
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July 2015 15-E-094
The Economic Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions from the Great East Japan Earthquake
- TOKUI Joji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KAWASAKI Kazuyasu (Toyo University) / MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:825KB]
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July 2015 15-E-093
Population Density, Fertility, and Childcare Services from the Perspective of a Two-Region Overlapping Generations Model
- ISHIDA Ryo (Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance) / OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / YASUOKA Masaya (Kwansei Gakuin University)
- Download paper [PDF:386KB]
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July 2015 15-E-092
State-owned Enterprise Reforms in the TPP Negotiation: Is it a win-win for Vietnam?
- LE Thi Anh Nguyet (Ho Chi Minh City University of Law)
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- Non Technical Summary
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July 2015 15-E-091
Heterogeneous Impact of Real Estate Prices on Firm Investment
- HAZAMA Makoto (Hitotsubashi University) /UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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July 2015 15-E-090
Extensions of Rubin's Causal Model for a Latent-Class Treatment Variable: An analysis of the effects of employers' work-life balance policies on women's income attainment in Japan
- YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
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July 2015 15-E-089
Industry-level Factor Inputs and TFP and Regional Convergence: 1970-2008
- TOKUI Joji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /MAKINO Tatsuji (Hitotsubashi University) /FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:405KB]
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July 2015 15-E-088
Performance-related Pay and Productivity: Evidence from Japan
- KATO Takao (Colgate University) /KODAMA Naomi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
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July 2015 15-E-087
Can Firms with Political Connections Borrow More Than Those Without? Evidence from firm-level data for Indonesia
- FU Jiangtao (Waseda University) / SHIMAMOTO Daichi (Waseda University) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:455KB]
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July 2015 15-E-086
Export Experience, Product Differentiation, and Firm Survival in Export Markets
- INUI Tomohiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / ITO Keiko (Senshu University) / MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University)
- Download paper [PDF:458KB]
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July 2015 15-E-085
Endogenous Business Cycles Caused by Nonconvex Costs and Interactions
- ARATA Yoshiyuki (Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:381KB]
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July 2015 15-E-084
Economic and Political Networks and Firm Openness: Evidence from Indonesia
- SHIMAMOTO Daichi (Waseda University) /TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:326KB]
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July 2015 15-E-083
Trade-offs in Compensating Transfers for a Multiple-skill Model of Occupational Choice
- ICHIDA Toshihiro (Waseda University)
- Download paper [PDF:551KB]
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July 2015 15-E-082
Organizing for Change: Preference diversity, effort incentives, and separation of decision and execution
- ITOH Hideshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:676KB]
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July 2015 15-E-081
Market Structure and Entry: Evidence from the intermediate goods market
- NISHITATENO Shuhei (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:580KB]
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July 2015 15-E-080
Choice of Invoice Currency in Global Production and Sales Networks: The case of Japanese overseas subsidiaries
- ITO Takatoshi (Program Director, RIETI) / KOIBUCHI Satoshi (Chuo University) / SATO Kiyotaka (Yokohama National University) / SHIMIZU Junko (Gakushuin University)
- Download paper [PDF:277KB]
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July 2015 15-E-079
Effectively Opening Labor and Capital Markets: The interplay among foreign direct investment, trade, and immigration
- TOMOHARA Akinori (Research Associate, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:603KB]
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June 2015 15-E-078
Does Ownership Really Matter? The role of foreign investors in corporate governance in Japan
- MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /HODA Takaaki (Showa Women's University) /OGAWA Ryo (Waseda University)
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- MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /HODA Takaaki (Showa Women's University) /OGAWA Ryo (Waseda University)
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June 2015 15-E-077
Determinants of Industrial Coagglomeration and Establishment-level Productivity
- FUJII Daisuke (Fellow, RIETI) / NAKAJIMA Kentaro (Tohoku University) / SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:653KB]
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June 2015 15-E-076
Pension Reform and Individual Retirement Accounts in Japan
- KITAO Sagiri (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:292KB]
- KITAO Sagiri (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
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June 2015 15-E-075
The Effects of Minimum Wages on Training
- HARA Hiromi (Japan Women's University)
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June 2015 15-E-074
The Effects of Graduating from College during a Recession on Consumption and Asset Holding
- KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KONDO Ayako (Yokohama National University)
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June 2015 15-E-073
Nonprofit/For-profit Facility and Difference of Wage Distribution: Evidence from the Japanese elderly care industry
- ITO Yutaka (Hiroshima University) /KAWATA Keisuke (Hiroshima University) /YIN Ting (Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:326KB]
- ITO Yutaka (Hiroshima University) /KAWATA Keisuke (Hiroshima University) /YIN Ting (Fellow, RIETI)
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June 2015 15-E-072
Use of Grace Periods and Their Impact on Knowledge Flow: Evidence from Japan
- NAGAOKA Sadao (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /NISHIMURA Yoichiro (Kanagawa University)
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- NAGAOKA Sadao (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /NISHIMURA Yoichiro (Kanagawa University)
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June 2015 15-E-071
Monetary Incentives for Corporate Inventors: Intrinsic motivation, project selection and inventive performance
- ONISHI Koichiro (Osaka Institute of Technology) / OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / NAGAOKA Sadao (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:452KB]
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June 2015 15-E-070
Application of the Concept of Entropy to Equilibrium in Macroeconomics
- AOYAMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / IYETOMI Hiroshi (Niigata University) / SOUMA Wataru (Nihon University) / YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:382KB]
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May 2015 15-E-069
The Well-Being of Elderly Survivors after Natural Disasters: Measuring the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake
- SUGANO Saki (Kobe University)
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May 2015 15-E-068
Does Retirement Change Lifestyle Habits?
- MOTEGI Hiroyuki (University of Tokyo) / NISHIMURA Yoshinori (University of Tokyo) / TERADA Kazuyuki (University of Tokyo)
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May 2015 15-E-067
Does Agglomeration Discourage Fertility? Evidence from the Japanese General Social Survey 2000-2010
- KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2015 15-E-066
Impacts of FTAs and BITs on the Locational Choice of Foreign Direct Investment: The case of Japanese firms
- URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:494KB]
- URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2015 15-E-065
How Institutional Arrangements in the National Innovation System Affect Industrial Competitiveness: A study of Japan and the United States with multiagent simulation
- KWON Seokbeom (Georgia Institute of Technology) / MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2015 15-E-064
Understanding Two Types of Technological Diversity and their Effects on the Technological Value of Outcomes from Bilateral Inter-firm R&D Alliances
- HUO Dong (Nanjing University) /MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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- HUO Dong (Nanjing University) /MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2015 15-E-063
Consumer Valuations of Energy Efficiency Investments: The case of Vietnam's air conditioner market
- MATSUMOTO Shigeru (Aoyama Gakuin University) / OMATA Yukiko (Waseda University)
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May 2015 15-E-062
The Prodigal Son: Does the younger brother always care for his parents in old age?
- KOMURA Mizuki (Nagoya University) / OGAWA Hikaru (Nagoya University)
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May 2015 15-E-061
Risk Taking and Firm Growth
- XU Peng (Hosei University)
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- XU Peng (Hosei University)
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May 2015 15-E-060
Parallel Imports and Repair Services
- ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / MORITA Hodaka (University of New South Wales) / MUKUNOKI Hiroshi (Gakushuin University)
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May 2015 15-E-059
The Japan-U.S. Price Level Index for Industry Outputs
- NOMURA Koji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /MIYAGAWA Kozo (Keio University)
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- NOMURA Koji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /MIYAGAWA Kozo (Keio University)
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May 2015 15-E-058
Energy Efficiency Improvement and Technical Changes in Japanese Industries, 1955-2012
- KONISHI Yoko (Senior Fellow, RIETI) /NOMURA Koji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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- KONISHI Yoko (Senior Fellow, RIETI) /NOMURA Koji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2015 15-E-057
Network-motivated Lending Decisions
- OGURA Yoshiaki (Waseda University) / OKUI Ryo (VU University Amsterdam / Kyoto University) / SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2015 15-E-056
Buyer-Supplier Networks and Aggregate Volatility
- MIZUNO Takayuki (National Institute of Informatics) /SOUMA Wataru (Nihon University) /WATANABE Tsutomu (University of Tokyo)
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- MIZUNO Takayuki (National Institute of Informatics) /SOUMA Wataru (Nihon University) /WATANABE Tsutomu (University of Tokyo)
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May 2015 15-E-055
Do Intangibles Contribute to Productivity Growth in East Asian Countries? Evidence from Japan and Korea
- Hyunbae CHUN (Sogang University) /MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /Hak Kil PYO (Seoul National University) /TONOGI Konomi (Kanagawa University)
- Download paper [PDF:458KB]
- Hyunbae CHUN (Sogang University) /MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /Hak Kil PYO (Seoul National University) /TONOGI Konomi (Kanagawa University)
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May 2015 15-E-054
A Half Century of Trans-Pacific Competition: Price level indices and productivity gaps for Japanese and U.S. industries, 1955-2012
- Dale W. JORGENSON (Harvard University) /NOMURA Koji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /Jon D. SAMUELS (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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- Dale W. JORGENSON (Harvard University) /NOMURA Koji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /Jon D. SAMUELS (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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April 2015 15-E-053
Learning by Export: Does the presence of foreign affiliate companies matter?
- HOSONO Kaoru (Gakushuin University) /MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University) /TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University)
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- HOSONO Kaoru (Gakushuin University) /MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University) /TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University)
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April 2015 15-E-052
Is Economic Development Promoting Monetary Integration in East Asia?
- KAWASAKI Kentaro (Toyo University) /WANG Zhiqian (Hitotsubashi University)
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- KAWASAKI Kentaro (Toyo University) /WANG Zhiqian (Hitotsubashi University)
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April 2015 15-E-051
No Lending Relationships and Liquidity Management of Small Businessesduring a Financial Shock
- TSURUTA Daisuke (Nihon University)
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April 2015 15-E-050
Investment Distortion by Collateral Requirements: Evidence from Japanese SMEs
- OGURA Yoshiaki (Waseda University)
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April 2015 15-E-049
Innovation and Collaboration Patterns between Research Establishments
- INOUE Hiroyasu (University of Hyogo) /NAKAJIMA Kentaro (Tohoku University) /SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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- INOUE Hiroyasu (University of Hyogo) /NAKAJIMA Kentaro (Tohoku University) /SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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April 2015 15-E-048
Accounting for the Sources of Growth in the Chinese Economy
- Harry X. WU (Hitotsubashi University)
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- Harry X. WU (Hitotsubashi University)
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April 2015 15-E-047
Buyers, Suppliers, and R&D Spillovers
- IKEUCHI Kenta (NISTEP) /René BELDERBOS (University of Leuven / UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University) /FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /Young Gak KIM (Senshu University) /KWON Hyeog Ug (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:507KB]
- IKEUCHI Kenta (NISTEP) /René BELDERBOS (University of Leuven / UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University) /FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) /Young Gak KIM (Senshu University) /KWON Hyeog Ug (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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April 2015 15-E-046
Innovation and Legal Enforcement for Competition Policy: Theory and international evidence from overseas subsidiaries of the Japanese auto-parts suppliers
- TAKEDA Yosuke (Sophia University) /UCHIDA Ichihiro (Aichi University)
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- TAKEDA Yosuke (Sophia University) /UCHIDA Ichihiro (Aichi University)
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April 2015 15-E-045
Explaining the International Mobility of Chinese Workers, 1992-2012
- ZHANG Hongyong (Fellow, RIETI)
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April 2015 15-E-044
Understanding Japan's Capital Goods Exports
- THORBECKE, Willem (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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- Non Technical Summary
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April 2015 15-E-043
Why Was Japan Left Behind in the ICT Revolution?
- FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / IKEUCHI Kenta (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) / YoungGak KIM (Senshu University) / KWON Hyeog Ug (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Download paper [PDF:448KB]
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April 2015 15-E-042
Measuring the Effects of Demand and Supply Factors on Service Sector Productivity
- OHYAMA Atsushi (Hitotsubashi University)
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- OHYAMA Atsushi (Hitotsubashi University)
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April 2015 15-E-041
Trade Liberalisation, Transboundary Pollution and Market Size
- Rikard FORSLID (Stockholm University) /OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University) /Mark SANCTUARY (Stockholm School of Economics)
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- Rikard FORSLID (Stockholm University) /OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University) /Mark SANCTUARY (Stockholm School of Economics)
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April 2015 15-E-040
On the Stochastic Macro-equilibrium and a Microfoundation for the Production Function
- HIRAGUCHI Ryoji (Chiba University)
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- HIRAGUCHI Ryoji (Chiba University)
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April 2015 15-E-039
"Dissolve the Keiretsu, or Die": A longitudinal study of disintermediation in the Japanese automobile manufacturing supply networks
- Petr MATOUS (University of Tokyo) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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Discussion Papers (English) FY2015
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