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530: Human Capital Accumulation of Salaried and Self-Employed Workers

Daiji Kawaguchi

529: The Non-Substitution Theorem: Multiple Primary Factors and the Cost Function Approach

K. Kuga

528: Luxury and Wealth Accumulation

Shinsuke Ikeda

527: International Spillover of Economic Fluctuations:A Dynamic Optimization Approach

Yoshiyasu Ono

526: Regression Quantiles for Unstable Autoregressive Models

S. Ling and Michael McAleer

525: Government Spending in a Model of Endogenous Growth with Private and Public Capital

D. Dasgupta

524: Growth or Stagnation: Economic Consequences of Status Preference

Yoshiyasu Ono

522: An Empirical Research of Substitutability between Medical Services and Over-the-Counter Medication. An Analysis of Thirteen Different Minor Ailments

M. Li and Y. Ohkusa

519: Tariffs, Time Preference, and the Current Account under Weakly Nonseparable Preferences

Ikeda and S.

515: Price Desclosure, Marginal Abatement Cost Information and Market Power in a Bilateral GHG Emissions Trading Experiment

Y. Hizen and Tatsuyoshi Saijo

514: The Outsider and Sunk Cost Effects on 'Dango' in Public Procurement Bidding: An Experimental Analysis

M. Nihashi, Tatsuyoshi Saijo and M. Une

513: Japanese GDP Forecasters Are Pressimistic in Boom, Optimistic in Recession, and Always Too Jumpy

Masahiro Ashiya

512: Does the Free-rider Problem Occur in Corporate Takeovers? Evidence from Laboratory Markets

S. Hirota, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Y. Hamaguchi and T. Kawagoe

511: An Empirical Evidence of Moral Hazard due to Unemployment Benefits

Y. Ohkusa

510: Emergence of New Industries and Endogenous Growth Cycles

Ryo Horii

507: Labor Relations, Labor Law and Unemployment in Japan

Atsushi Tsuneki

506: The Sensitivity Analysis of the Optimal Length of Life -the Numerical Approach-

Ken Tabata and Y. Ohkusa

505: Bank Lending in Japan: its Determinants and Macroeconomic Implications

Kazuo Ogawa and Kitasaka, S.-I.

503: Weakly Nonseparable Preference and the Current Account: Yes, There is a Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect

Shinsuke Ikeda

502: Approach Toward a Unified Health Insurance System: What Can Japan Learn from the Korean Experience

S. Kwon and W. Suzuki

501: A Newly Developed Japanese Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Model and Statistical Analysis of Excess Mortality by Stochastic Frontier Estimation

N. Sindo, M. Li, Y. Ohkusa and K. Taniguchi

496: A Four Country Comparision of Spite, Cooperation and Errors in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms

J. Brandts, Tatsuyoshi Saijo and A. Schram

495: Unions and the Decentralisation of Collective Bargaining in a Globalising World

N. Gaston

494: Voluntary Participation Game Experiments with a Non-Excludable Public Good: Is Spitefulness a Source of Cooperation?

Tatsuyoshi Saijo, T. Yamato, K. Yokotani and Timothy Cason

493: Who would get Gains from EU's Quantity Restraint on Emissions Trading in the Kyoto Protocol?

Y. Kaino, Tatsuyoshi Saijo and T. Yamato

492: Designing GHG Emissions Trading Institutions in the Kyoto Protocol: an Experimental Approach

Y. Hizen and Tatsuyoshi Saijo

491: Voluntary Participation and Spite in Public Good Provision Experiments: an International Comparison

Timothy Cason, Tatsuyoshi Saijo and T. Yamato

490: Conjoint Analysis for the Demand of Health Care Related to Common Cold

W. Suzuki and Y. Ohkusa

489: Technological Comparative Advantage and Behavior of Factor Prices with Trade

Kwan Koo Yun and J. Akita

488: Partial Communication in a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism Experiment

Tatsuyoshi Saijo and M. Une

487: Are Americans more Altruistic than the Japanese Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives

Charles Yuji Horioka, H. Fujisaki, Wako Watanabe and T. Kouno

483: A Theory of Optimum Tariff Under Revenue Constraint

Tatsuo Hatta and Y. Ogawa

482: Japan's Public Pension System in the Twenty-First Century

Charles Yuji Horioka

480: The Optimal Face Value of a Discount Coupon

Ben-Zion, U., A. Hibshoosh and U. Spiegel

479: Herd Behavior of Japanese Economists

Masahiro Ashiya and Takero Doi

478: Is there any Substitution Between Medical Services and Over-the-Counter Medications in the Case of the Common Cold? -Analysis Based on an Original Survey-

M. Li and Y. Ohkusa

476: Brand Proliferation is Useless to Deter Entry

Masahiro Ashiya

474: Reflections on Indian Economic Development and Reform in the Light of Japan

S. Sikdar

472: Price-Matching Cannot Sustain Collusion if One or More Consumers Incur Enforcement Costs

Masahiro Ashiya

471: Moral Hazard and Renegotiation with Multiple Agents

S. Ishiguro and Hideshi Itoh

470: A U.S.-Japan Comparison of the Importance and Determinants of Retirement Saving

Charles Yuji Horioka and M. Okui

468: Weak Entrants are Welcome

Masahiro Ashiya

463: Trends and Determinants of Japanese Saving Rates

Kazuo Ogawa and K. Abe

462: Regulating a Monopoly with Quality Choice under Asymmetric Information

Yukihiro Kidokoro

461: Liquidity Preference and Persistent Unemployment with Dynamic Optimizing Agents

Yoshiyasu Ono, Kazuo Ogawa and A. Yoshida

460: A Social Procedure for Choosing Fair Allocation Rules - Formalizing the Rawlsian Principles of Justice -

Naoki Yoshihara and R. Gotoh

457: Characterizations of the Public and Private Ownership Solutions

Naoki Yoshihara

456: Export-Oriented Foreign Direct Investment and Local Content Requirement

Sajal Lahiri and Yoshiyasu Ono

453: A Game Form Approach to Theories of Distributive Justice -- Formalizing Needs Principle --

R. Gotoh and Naoki Yoshihara

452: Global Environmental Management: Incentives for Abatement Investment Anticipating an International Bargaining

Kazuharu Kiyono and Okuno-Fujiwara, M.