Japan and the World Economy

1988 - 2009

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Volume 17, issue 4, 2005

Does the Creative Business Promotion Law enhance SMEs' capital investments? Evidence from a panel dataset of unlisted SMEs in Japan pp. 395-406

Nobuyuki Harada and Yuji Honjo

Divergence or convergence?: Income inequality between cities, towns and villages in Japan pp. 407-416

Kazuhiko Kakamu and Mototsugu Fukushige

Human resource management, corporate governance structure and corporate performance in Korea: a comparative analysis of Japan, US and Korea pp. 417-430

Joonmo Cho

Overreaction effects independent of risk and characteristics: evidence from the Japanese stock market pp. 431-455

Chaoshin Chiao and C. James Hueng

Is there a yen optimum currency area? Evidence from 18 Asian and Pacific economies pp. 456-469

Georgios Karras

Optimal inflation target under uncertainty pp. 470-479

Hirofumi Uchida and Hiroshi Fujiki

A search for leading sectors over the business cycle: The case of Korea pp. 480-495

Joon-Mo Yang and Kim, Tae-Wan

Reexamining the effect of packet pricing in the wireless internet pp. 496-509

Jeong-Yoo Kim, Lee, Nae-Chan and Kim, Dong-Ju

Volume 17, issue 3, 2005

Services content of Japanese trade pp. 261-292

Kozo Kiyota

The relationship between saving and investment for Japan pp. 293-309

Paresh Kumar Narayan

The term structure of interest rates in Japan: the predictability of economic activity pp. 311-326

Hiroshi Nakaota

On the inflation-uncertainty hypothesis in the USA, Japan and the UK: a dual long memory approach pp. 327-343

Christian Conrad and Menelaos Karanasos

Firm investment, monetary transmission and balance-sheet problems in Japan: an investigation using micro data pp. 345-369

Takashi Nagahata and Toshitaka Sekine

Executive pay in Japan: the role of bank-appointed monitors and the Main Bank relationship pp. 371-394

Naohito Abe, Noel Gaston and Katsuyuki Kubo

Volume 17, issue 2, 2005

Industrial groupings and strategic FDI pp. 125-150

Bruce A. Blonigen, Christopher J. Ellis and Dietrich Fausten

Debt disorganization in Japan pp. 151-169

Keiichiro Kobayashi and Masaru Inaba

Regional monetary integration in the presence of two large countries: What modality makes sense for East Asia? pp. 171-187

Kim, Tae-Joon, Ryou, Jai-Won and Shinji Takagi

Monetary policy of the Bank of Japan--inflation target versus exchange rate target pp. 189-208

Joaquim Pinto de Andrade and Jose Angelo Divino

Lifetime employment as a coordination failure pp. 209-222

Junichiro Ishida

Are US current account deficits unsustainable?: Testing for the private and government intertemporal budget constraints pp. 223-237

Yoichi Matsubayashi

Structural changes and unit roots in Japan's macroeconomic time series: is real business cycle theory supported? pp. 239-259

Naotsugu Hayashi

Volume 17, issue 1, 2005

Quality change and productivity improvement in the Japanese economy pp. 1-23

Derek Bosworth, Silvia Massini and Masako Nakayama

Estimating a matching function and regional matching efficiencies: Japanese panel data for 1973-1999 pp. 25-41

Shigeki Kano and Makoto Ohta

Re-examination of J-curve effect for Japan, Korea and Taiwan pp. 43-58

Hsing, Han-Min

The effects of product liability costs on R&D with asymmetric information pp. 59-81

Sumiko Takaoka

Yen bloc or koala bloc? Currency relationships after the East Asian crisis pp. 83-96

Chakriya Bowman

Long memory volatility dependency, temporal aggregation and the Korean currency crisis: the role of a high frequency Korean won (KRW)-US dollar ($) exchange rate pp. 97-109

Young Wook Han

Export supply of New Zealand's live rock lobster to Japan: an empirical analysis pp. 111-123

Shekar Bose and Arna Galvan

Volume 16, issue 4, 2004

Pricing behaviour in Japanese manufacturing: a comparative study pp. 417-429

Michael James Olive

On the optimal external tariff of a free trade area with internal market integration pp. 431-448

Hiroshi Mukunoki

Protection of trade for innovation: the roles of Northern and Southern Tariffs pp. 449-470

Larry Dongxiao Qiu and Edwin L.-C. Lai

The winner-loser effect in Japanese stock returns pp. 471-485

Yoshio Iihara, Hideaki Kiyoshi Kato and Toshifumi Tokunaga

Demand for broad money and expenditure components in Japan: an empirical study pp. 487-502

Tuck Cheong Tang

Exchange rate volatility and its impact on the transaction costs of covered interest rate parity pp. 503-525

Ramprasad Bhar, Suk-Joong Kim and Toan M. Pham

Towards a sustainable growth path pp. 527-543

Masaru Hayami

Volume 16, issue 3, 2004

Conservation laws in economics pp. 243-246

Paul A. Samuelson

Economic conservation laws as indices of corporate performance pp. 247-267

Ryuzo Sato

Conservation laws for microeconomists!: Comments on "Economic Conservation Laws as Indices of Corporate Performance" by Ryuzo Sato pp. 269-276

Thomas Mitchell

Stochastic income and wealth pp. 277-301

Martin L. Weitzman

Discussion of M. Weitzman's stochastic income and wealth pp. 303-305

Diego Comin

Weitzman's rule with market distortions pp. 307-329

Kazuo Mino

Perspectives on Weitzman's stationary equivalent: Discussion of Kazuo Mino's "Weitzman's Rule with Market Distortions" pp. 331-335

Geir B. Asheim

Sustaining periodic motion and maintaining capital in classical mechanics pp. 337-358

John M. Hartwick

Investing capital rentals to sustain periodic motion in classical mechanics by John Hartwick pp. 359-362

Thomas Russell

Applying exterior differential calculus to economics: a presentation and some new results pp. 363-385

Pierre Chiappori and Ivar Ekeland

Applying exterior differential calculus to economics: a presentation and some new results: A comment pp. 387-389

Kazuya Kamiya

Testing the expected utility maximization hypothesis with limited experimental data pp. 391-407

James B. Cooper, Thomas Russell and Paul A. Samuelson

Comments on the Working Paper No. 303 "Testing the Expected Utility Maximization Hypothesis with Limited Experimental Data" by James B. Cooper, Thomas Russell, Paul A. Samuelson pp. 409-413

Vladislav V. Goldberg

Volume 16, issue 2, 2004

The productivity-bias hypothesis and the PPP theorem: new evidence from panel vector autoregressive models pp. 121-138

Johan Ericsson and Manuchehr Irandoust

How does trade affect the labor market? Evidence from Japanese manufacturing pp. 139-161

Kojiro Sakurai

The effect of solvency regulation to a bank pp. 163-191

Akira Momota and Yasuo Maeda

The Japanese stagnation: an assessment of the productivity slowdown hypothesis pp. 193-211

Claudio Morana

Trade integration and business cycle co-movements: the case of Korea with other Asian countries pp. 213-230

Kwanho Shin and Yunjong Wang

Foreign aid, tariff revenue, and factor adjustment costs pp. 231-242

Yasuhiro Takarada

Volume 16, issue 1, 2004

Exchange rate sensitivity of Japan's bilateral trade flows pp. 1-15

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Gour Gobinda Goswami

International parity relationships between the USA and Japan pp. 17-34

Katarina Juselius and Ronald MacDonald

Skill formation and international migration: welfare perspective of developing countries pp. 35-54

Saibal Kar and Hamid Beladi

Factors affecting colonial industrialization in the endowment view of settlement versus extraction pp. 55-80

Yong Jin Kim

Central Banks' preferences in Japan, the UK, and the US pp. 81-93

Minoru Tachibana

Programme evaluation of unemployment benefits in Japan: An average treatment effect approach pp. 95-111

Yasushi Ohkusa

Japan's economy and monetary policy: a pragmatic evaluation pp. 113-119

Hirohide Yamaguchi