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March 2019 19-E-025
Hearing the Voice of the Future: Trump vs Clinton
- NARITA Yusuke (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2019 19-E-024
Costs of Employment and Flexible Labor Demand: Evidence from Maternity and Parental Leave Reforms
- ASAI Yukiko (Waseda University)
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March 2019 19-E-023
Empirical Analysis of License Policy for Declared Standard-essential Patents in Setting Technology Standards
- Dong HUO (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen) / Jiangwei DANG (University of International Business and Economics) / MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2019 19-E-022
Value of Data: There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch in the Digital Economy
- Wendy C.Y. LI (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis) / NIREI Makoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / YAMANA Kazufumi (Kanagawa University)
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March 2019 19-E-021
Generational War on Inflation: Optimal Inflation Rates for the Young and the Old
- FUJIWARA Ippei (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / HORI Shunsuke (University of California, San Diego) / WAKI Yuichiro (University of Queensland)
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March 2019 19-E-020
The Effect of Social Interactions on Exporting Activities: Evidence from Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in rural Vietnam
- SHIMAMOTO Daichi (Kindai University) / Yu Ri KIM (Sophia University) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2019 19-E-019
Effects of US Interest Rate Hikes and Global Risk on Daily Capital Flows in Emerging Market Countries
- OGAWA Eiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / SHIMIZU Junko (Gakushuin University) / LUO Pengfei (Hitotsubashi University)
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March 2019 19-E-018
Measuring Markups from Revenue and Total Cost: An Application to Japanese Plant-Product Matched Data
- NISHIOKA Shuichiro (West Virginia University) / TANAKA Mari (Hitotsubashi University)
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March 2019 19-E-017
The Link between Entrepreneurial Activities and Angel Investment: An international comparison
- HONJO Yuji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / NAKAMURA Hiroki (Chuo University)
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March 2019 19-E-016
Use and sharing of big data, firm networks and their performance
- KIM YoungGak (Senshu University) / MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2019 19-E-015
Productivity Dynamics during Major Crises in Japan: A Quantile Approach
- ADACHI Yusuke (Nagoya University) / OGAWA Hikaru (University of Tokyo) / TSUBUKU Masafumi (Daito Bunka University)
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March 2019 19-E-014
The BOJ's ETF Purchases and Its Effects on Nikkei 225 Stocks
- HARADA Kimie (Chuo University) / OKIMOTO Tatsuyoshi (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
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March 2019 19-E-013
Hospital competition and technology adoption: An econometric analysis of imaging technology in Japan
- GOTO Rei (Keio University) / KATO Hirotaka (Keio University)
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February 2019 19-E-012
Managing the Yield Curve in a Financially Globalized World
- ITO Hiroyuki (Visiting Fellow, RIETI) / Phuong TRAN (Portland State University)
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February 2019 19-E-011
Geography and Realty Prices: Evidence from International Transaction-Level Data
- MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University) / SHIMIZU Chihiro (Nihon University) / UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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February 2019 19-E-010
Professionals on Corporate Boards: How do they affect the bottom line?
- SAKO Mari (University of Oxford) / KUBO Katsuyuki (Waseda University)
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February 2019 19-E-009
Why Is Investment So Weak Despite High Profitability? A panel study of Japanese manufacturing firms
- OGAWA Kazuo (Kansai Gaidai University) / Elmer STERKEN (University of Groningen) / TOKUTSU Ichiro (Kobe University)
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February 2019 19-E-008
Two-dimensional Constrained Chaos and Time in Innovation: An analysis of industrial revolution cycles
- YANO Makoto (Chief Research Officer, RIETI) / FURUKAWA Yuichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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February 2019 19-E-007
Disentangling the Effect of Home Ownership on Household Stock-holdings: Evidence from Japanese microdata
- IWAISAKO Tokuo (Hitotsubashi University) / ONO Arito (Chuo University) / SAITO Amane (Government Pension Investment Fund) / TOKUDA Hidenobu (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
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February 2019 19-E-006
The Weak Rupiah: Catching the tailwinds and avoiding the shoals
- Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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February 2019 19-E-005
Employer-Provided Training and Productivity: Evidence from a Panel of Japanese Firms
- MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
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February 2019 19-E-004
The Extent and Efficiency of Credit Reallocation during Economic Downturns
- SAKAI Koji (Kyoto Sangyo University) / UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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January 2019 19-E-003
Oil Prices and the U.S. Economy: Evidence from the stock market
- Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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January 2019 19-E-002
How Would a Slowdown in the People's Republic of China Affect its Trading Partners?
- Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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- Non Technical Summary
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January 2019 19-E-001
Going Concern Notes, Downsizing, and Exit
- SARUYAMA Sumio (Japan Center for Economic Research and Hosei University) / Peng XU (Hosei University)
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December 2018 18-E-086
Did BOJ's Negative Interest Rate Policy Increase Bank Lending?
- GUNJI Hiroshi (Daito Bunka University)
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December 2018 18-E-085
Public-Private Partnerships with Infrastructure Funds: an Optimal Incentive Device
- ODA Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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December 2018 18-E-084
Corporate Governance, Employment, and Financial Performance of Japanese firms: A cross-country analysis
- ARIKAWA Yasuhiro (Waseda University) / INOUE Kotaro (Tokyo Institute of Technology) / SAITO Takuji (Keio University)
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December 2018 18-E-083
Skill Transference and International Migration: A theoretical analysis on skilled migration to the Anglosphere
- NAKAGAWA Mariko (Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo)
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December 2018 18-E-082
Estimating Family Preferences for Elder-care Services: A conjoint-survey experiment in Japan
- KANEKO Shinji (Hiroshima University) / KAWATA Keisuke (University of Tokyo) / YIN Ting (Fellow, RIETI)
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November 2018 18-E-081
Voluntary Provision of Public Goods and Cryptocurrency
- OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / ISHIDA Ryo (Policy Research Institute Ministry of Finance) / YASUOKA Masaya (Kwansei Gakuin University)
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November 2018 18-E-080
Days of Schooling and Educational Inequality: Evidence from schools with saturday class in Japan
- INUI Tomohiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KODAMA Naomi (Research Associate, RIETI) / NAGASHIMA Masaru (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
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November 2018 18-E-079
Health Capacity to Work and Its Long-term Trend among the Japanese Elderly
- OSHIO Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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November 2018 18-E-078
Determinants of FTA Utilization for Japan's Imports: Preferential margins and restrictiveness of rules of origin
- ANDO Mitsuyo (Keio University) / URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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November 2018 18-E-077
What Determines Utility of International Currencies?
- OGAWA Eiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / MUTO Makoto (Hitotsubashi University)
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November 2018 18-E-076
Nonfarm Employment, Inflationary Expectations, and Monetary Policy after the Global Financial Crisis
- Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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- Non Technical Summary
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October 2018 18-E-075
Trade, Location and Multiproduct Firms
- Rikard FORSLID (Stockholm University) / OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University)
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October 2018 18-E-074
Stock Repurchases and Corporate Control: Evidence from Japan
- Julian FRANKS (London Business School) / Colin MAYER (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) / MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / OGAWA Ryo (Waseda University)
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October 2018 18-E-073
Novelty-Seeking Traits and Innovation
- FURUKAWA Yuichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / Tat-kei LAI (IÉSEG School of Management) / SATO Kenji (Osaka Prefecture University)
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October 2018 18-E-072
Property Tax and Land Use: Evidence from the 1990s reforms in Japan
- MIYAZAKI Tomomi (Kobe University) / SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 2018 18-E-071
Firm Predicted Exchange Rates and Nonlinearities in Pricing-to-Market
- Thi-Ngoc Anh NGUYEN (Yokohama National University) / SATO Kiyotaka (Yokohama National University)
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October 2018 18-E-070
How Does the Global Network of Research Collaboration Affect the Quality of Innovation?
- IINO Takashi (Niigata University) / INOUE Hiroyasu (University of Hyogo) / SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 2018 18-E-069
Outward Foreign direct investment and Firm-level Employment Dynamics in Japanese Manufacturing Firms
- LIU Yang (Fellow, RIETI) / NI Bin (Hosei University)
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October 2018 18-E-068
Collaborative Knowledge Creation: Evidence from Japanese patent data
- MORI Tomoya (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / SAKAGUCHI Shosei (University of Tokyo / JSPS)
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October 2018 18-E-067
Inter-city Trade
- MORI Tomoya (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / Jens WRONA (HHU Düsseldorf, DICE, and CESifo)
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October 2018 18-E-066
Competitiveness, Risk Attitudes, and the Gender Gap in Math Achievement
- YAGASAKI Masayuki (University of Tokyo) / NAKAMURO Makiko (Keio University)
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October 2018 18-E-065
Indirect Trade and Direct Trade: Evidence from Japanese firm transaction data
- ITO Tadashi (Gakushuin University) / SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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October 2018 18-E-064
Fiscal Sustainability in Japan: What to tackle?
- Selahattin İMROHOROĞLU (University of Southern California) / KITAO Sagiri (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / YAMADA Tomoaki (Meiji University)
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September 2018 18-E-063
Causal Effects of Software Patents on Firm Growth: Evidence from a policy reform in Japan
- YAMAUCHI Isamu (Research Associate, RIETI) / ONISHI Koichiro (Waseda University)
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September 2018 18-E-062
Stagnation Traps in an Open Economy
- HIRAGUCHI Ryoji (Meiji University)
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September 2018 18-E-061
Export Sophistication and Trade Elasticities
- Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / Nimesh SALIKE (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
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- Non Technical Summary
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September 2018 18-E-060
Manager Characteristics and Firm Performance
- KODAMA Naomi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / Huiyu LI (Federal Reserve Bank of SF)
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September 2018 18-E-059
Expectation Formation and Firm Activities: New evidence from a business outlook survey in Japan
- CHEN Cheng (University of Hong Kong) / SENGA Tatsuro (Fellow, RIETI) / SUN Chang (University of Hong Kong) / ZHANG Hongyong (Fellow, RIETI)
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September 2018 18-E-058
Production Chains, Exchange Rate Shocks, and Firm Performance
- LI Zhigang (Asian Development Bank) / WEI Shang-Jin (Columbia University) / ZHANG Hongyong (Fellow, RIETI)
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September 2018 18-E-057
Networks of Foreign Affiliates: Evidence from Japanese micro-data
- Francesca SPINELLI (OECD) / Dorothée ROUZET (OECD) / ZHANG Hongyong (Fellow, RIETI)
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August 2018 18-E-056
Reallocation Effects of Monetary Policy
- MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University) / OIKAWA Koki (Waseda University) / UEDA Kozo (Waseda University)
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August 2018 18-E-055
Analysis of Inflation/Deflation: Clusters of micro prices matter!
- KICHIKAWA Yuichi (Niigata University) / AOYAMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / FUJIWARA Yoshi (University of Hyogo) / IYETOMI Hiroshi (Niigata University) / YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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August 2018 18-E-054
Inter-firm Transaction Networks and Location in a City
- OTAZAWA Toshimori (Kobe University) / OHIRA Yuki (Tottori University) / Jos VAN OMMEREN (VU Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute)
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August 2018 18-E-053
Spatial Pattern and City Size Distribution
- MORI Tomoya (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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August 2018 18-E-052
Firm Value and Retained Earnings: Optimal dividend policy with retained earnings
- INOSE Junya (Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.,)
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August 2018 18-E-051
Role of Past Experience and Intra-firm Trade in FDI Decisions
- Ivan DESEATNICOV (University of Tsukuba) / Konstantin KUCHERYAVYY (University of Tokyo)
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July 2018 18-E-050
Public Opposition to Refugee Resettlement: The case of Japan
- HORIUCHI Yusaku (Dartmouth College) / ONO Yoshikuni (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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July 2018 18-E-049
Trade Credit in Global Supply Chains
- Jiangtao FU (Waseda University) / Petr MATOUS (The University of Sydney) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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July 2018 18-E-048
Reallocation of Tangible Assets and Productivity
- UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / HOSONO Kaoru (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Hitotsubashi University) / ONO Arito (Chuo University) / UCHIDA Hirofumi (Kobe University)
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July 2018 18-E-047
Roles of In-house Production in Firms' Supplier Management
- ONO Yukako (Keio University)
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July 2018 18-E-046
The Choice of Examiner Patent Citations for Refusals: Evidence from the trilateral offices
- WADA Tetsuo (Gakushuin University)
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July 2018 18-E-045
Macroprudential Modeling Based on Spin Dynamics in a Supply Chain Network
- IKEDA Yuichi (Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University) / YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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July 2018 18-E-044
Identifying Neighborhood Effects among Firms: Evidence from location lotteries of the Tokyo Tsukiji fish market
- NAKAJIMA Kentaro (Hitotsubashi University) / TESHIMA Kensuke (Hitotsubashi University)
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July 2018 18-E-043
The Impact of Oil Prices on East and Southeast Asian Economies: Evidence from financial markets
- Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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June 2018 18-E-042
Technology Sourcing in New Product Development Projects: When and how to use external resources?
- KANI Masayo (Tezukayama University) / MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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June 2018 18-E-041
Propagation of Shocks by Natural Disasters through Global Supply Chains
- KASHIWAGI Yuzuka (Waseda University) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / Petr MATOUS (The University of Sydney)
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June 2018 18-E-040
Bankruptcy Propagation on a Customer-supplier Network: An empirical analysis in Japan
- Yoshiyuki ARATA (Fellow, RIETI)
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June 2018 18-E-039
Do Voters Prefer Gender Stereotypic Candidates? Evidence from a conjoint survey experiment in Japan
- ONO Yoshikuni (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / YAMADA Masahiro (Kwansei Gakuin University)
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June 2018 18-E-038
Heterogeneous Labor and Agglomeration over Generations
- IHARA Ryusuke (Asia University)
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June 2018 18-E-037
The Effect of Transportation Benefits on Health and Consumption among the Elderly: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Urban China
- YIN Ting (Fellow, RIETI) / YIN Zhigang (Shanghai Research Center on Aging) / ZHANG Junchao (Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
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June 2018 18-E-036
Intellectual Property Rights for Software and Accessibility to Venture Capitalists
- ONISHI Koichiro (Waseda University) / YAMAUCHI Isamu (Meiji Gakuin University)
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June 2018 18-E-035
Strategic Declaration of Standard Essential Patents
- AOKI Reiko (Japan Fair Trade Commission) / ARAI Yasuhiro (Kochi University)
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May 2018 18-E-034
Trade Exposure and Electoral Protectionism: Evidence from Japanese politician-level data
- ITO Banri (Research Associate, RIETI)
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May 2018 18-E-033
Labor Market Imperfections, Markups, and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters
- Sabien DOBBELAERE (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) / KIYOTA Kozo (Research Associate, RIETI)
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May 2018 18-E-032
Regional Employment and Artificial Intelligence in Japan
- HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2018 18-E-031
The Effect of Shadow Education Vouchers after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Evidence from regression discontinuity design
- KOBAYASHI Yohei (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2018 18-E-030
Measuring Firm-level Uncertainty: New evidence from a business outlook survey
- MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
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May 2018 18-E-029
Effects of State-Sponsored Human Capital Investment on the Selection of Training Type
- KODAMA Naomi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / YOKOYAMA Izumi (Hitotsubashi University) / HIGUCHI Yoshio (Keio University)
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May 2018 18-E-028
Labor Segmentation and the Outmigration Intention of Highly Skilled Foreign Workers: Evidence from Asian-born foreign workers in Japan
- LIU Yang (Fellow, RIETI)
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May 2018 18-E-027
Dynamic Relation between Volatility Risk Premia of Stock and Oil Returns
- NAKAMURA Nobuhiro (Hitotsubashi University) / OHASHI Kazuhiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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April 2018 18-E-026
Hierarchical Communities in the Walnut Structure of Japanese Production Networks
- Abhijit CHAKRABORTY (University of Hyogo) / KICHIKAWA Yuichi (Niigata University) / IYETOMI Hiroshi (Niigata University) / IINO Takashi (Niigata University) / INOUE Hiroyasu (University of Hyogo) / FUJIWARA Yoshi (University of Hyogo) / AOYAMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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April 2018 18-E-025
Long Commuting Time and the Benefits of Telecommuting
- MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
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April 2018 18-E-024
Trend Inflation and Monetary Policy Regimes in Japan
- OKIMOTO Tatsuyoshi (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
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April 2018 18-E-023
Smoking, Obesity, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Japan
- MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
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April 2018 18-E-022
Trade Liberalization, Absorptive Capacity and the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
- Arghya GHOSH (University of New South Wales) / ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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April 2018 18-E-021
Effects of Distance and Borders on International and Interregional Tourist Flows: A micro-gravity analysis
- MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
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