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Homepage:	http://strategy.sauder.ubc.ca/nakamura/
Workplace:	Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2016

1. Japan’s Ultimately Unaccursed Natural Resources-Financed Industrialization
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Chapter Japan's Ultimately Unaccursed Natural Resources-financed Industrialization, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
   Journal Article Japan's ultimately unaccursed natural resources-financed industrialization, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier (2018) (2018)

2012

2. Building the Innovation Union: Lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

2007

3. Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (31)
   See also Journal Article Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth, Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press (2007) View citations (46) (2007)

2004

4. Been There, Done That: The History of Corporate Ownership in Japan
   CEI Working Paper Series, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University View citations (3)

2000

5. Japanese Corporate Governance and Macroeconomic Problems
   Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations (13)
   See also Chapter Japanese Corporate Governance and Macroeconomic Problems, Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan (2001) View citations (3) (2001)

1985

6. Estimating Transition Probabilities From Panel Data
   Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques
   See also Journal Article Estimating transition probabilities from panel data, Economics Letters, Elsevier (1985) (1985)

Journal Articles

2018

1. Foreign direct investment with host country market structures, with empirical application to Japan
   Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2018, 49, (C), 43-53 View citations (1)
2. Japan's ultimately unaccursed natural resources-financed industrialization
   Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2018, 47, (C), 32-54
   See also Chapter Japan's Ultimately Unaccursed Natural Resources-financed Industrialization, NBER Chapters, 2018 (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
   Working Paper Japan’s Ultimately Unaccursed Natural Resources-Financed Industrialization, NBER Working Papers (2016) (2016)

2015

3. Economic Development and Business Groups in Asia: Japan’s Experience and Implications
   International Advances in Economic Research, 2015, 21, (1), 81-103 View citations (2)
4. Economic performance and supply chains: The impact of upstream firms׳ waste output on downstream firms׳ performance in Japan
   International Journal of Production Economics, 2015, 160, (C), 47-65 View citations (11)

2011

5. Adoption and policy implications of Japan’s new corporate governance practices after the reform
   Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2011, 28, (1), 187-213 View citations (15)
6. Returns to scale: concept, estimation and analysis of Japan's turbulent 1964-88 economy
   Canadian Journal of Economics, 2011, 44, (2), 451-485 View citations (5)
   Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011, 44, (2), 451-485 (2011)

2010

7. The impact of operational characteristics on firms' EMS decisions: strategic adoption of ISO 14001 certifications
   Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2010, 17, (4), 215-229 View citations (17)

2007

8. Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
   Enterprise & Society, 2007, 8, (3), 543-601 View citations (46)
   See also Working Paper Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth, NBER Working Papers (2007) View citations (31) (2007)
9. Technical change in a bubble economy: Japanese manufacturing firms in the 1990s
   Empirica, 2007, 34, (3), 247-271

2006

10. Electricity markets volatility: estimates, regularities and risk management applications
    Energy Policy, 2006, 34, (14), 1736-1749 View citations (7)

2005

11. Bureaucratization of environmental management and corporate greening: an empirical analysis of large manufacturing firms in Japan
    Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2005, 12, (4), 210-219 View citations (7)
12. Joint venture instability, learning and the relative bargaining power of the parent firms
    International Business Review, 2005, 14, (4), 465-493 View citations (26)

2003

13. A joint Japan-China research project for reducing pollution in China in the context of the Kyoto Protocol clean development mechanism (CDM): case study of the desulfurdized bio-coal briquette experiments in Shenyang and Chengdu
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2003, 24, (2-3), 213-229 View citations (2)
14. Beamline for Surface and Interface Structures at SPring-8
    Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 2003, 10, (02n03), 543-547
15. Cooperative R&D and the Canadian forest products industry
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2003, 24, (2-3), 147-169 View citations (5)
16. Research alliances and collaborations: Introduction to the special issue
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2003, 24, (2-3), 47-49 View citations (7)

2002

17. Mixed ownership of industrial firms in Japan: debt financing, banks and vertical keiretsu groups
    Economic Systems, 2002, 26, (3), 231-247 View citations (7)

2001

18. A contingent claim analysis of closed-end fund premia
    International Review of Financial Analysis, 2001, 10, (4), 365-394
19. Why Japanese Firms Choose to Certify: A Study of Managerial Responses to Environmental Issues
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2001, 42, (1), 23-52 View citations (166)

2000

20. Banks, Ownership Structure, and Firm Value in Japan
    The Journal of Business, 2000, 73, (4), 539-67 View citations (158)

1999

21. Banks and Corporate Control in Japan
    Journal of Finance, 1999, 54, (1), 319-339 View citations (310)

1998

22. An Index Number Method for Estimating Scale Economies and Technical Processes Using Time-series of Cross-section Data: Sources of Total Factor Productivity Growth for Japanese Manufacturing, 1964–1988
    The Japanese Economic Review, 1998, 49, (3), 310-334 View citations (8)
23. Innovation, Strategy and Canada's Forest Products Industry
    Canadian Public Policy, 1998, 24, (s2), 27-40 View citations (3)
24. Model specification and endogeneity
    Journal of Econometrics, 1998, 83, (1-2), 213-237 View citations (35)
25. Nonverifiability, noncontractibility and ownership determination models in foreign direct investment, with an application to foreign operations in Japan
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1998, 16, (5), 571-599 View citations (38)
26. The Overlayer Structure on the Si(001)-(2×3)-AgSurface Determined by X-ray Photoelectron Diffraction
    Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 1998, 05, (05), 953-958
27. The bonus share of flexible pay in Germany, Japan and the US: Some empirical regularities
    Japan and the World Economy, 1998, 10, (2), 221-232 View citations (4)

1997

28. Block holding and keiretsu in Japan: the effects of capital markets liberalization measures on the stock market
    Journal of International Money and Finance, 1997, 16, (1), 113-140 View citations (1)
29. Does Culture Matter in Inter-Firm Cooperation? Research Consortia in Japan and the USA
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 1997, 18, (2), 153-175 View citations (8)
30. Environmental Management in Japan: Applications of Input-Output Analysis to the Emission of Global Warming Gases
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 1997, 18, (2), 195-208 View citations (6)
31. Japanese Technology Management: Introduction to the Special Issue
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 1997, 18, (2), 71-72
32. Top-down Production Management: A Recent Trend in the Japanese Productivity-enhancement Movement
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 1997, 18, (2), 131-139 View citations (2)

1996

33. An empirical investigation of joint venture dynamics: Evidence from U.S.-Japan joint ventures
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1996, 14, (4), 521-541 View citations (38)
34. Japanese Manufacturing Methods at U.S. Manufacturing Plants: Empirical Evidence
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996, 29, (s1), 468-74
35. New Goods as a Challenge for Index Number Making
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996, 29, (s1), 598-604

1994

36. Predicting Female Labor Supply: Effects of Children and Recent Work Experience
    Journal of Human Resources, 1994, 29, (2) View citations (37)

1993

37. Japanese industrial relations in an international business environment
    The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 1993, 4, (2), 225-251 View citations (2)

1991

38. Japanese direct investment in Asia-Pacific and other regions: Empirical analysis using MITI survey data
    International Journal of Production Economics, 1991, 25, (1-3), 219-229 View citations (1)
39. Risk behavior and the determinants of bonus versus regular pay in Japan
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1991, 5, (2), 140-159 View citations (8)

1990

40. Alternative approaches to model choice
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1990, 14, (1), 97-125 View citations (4)

1989

41. Inventory management behavior of American and Japanese firms
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1989, 3, (3), 270-291 View citations (3)

1988

42. Profits in the long run: Dennis C. Mueller, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986) pp. xii+378, $47.50
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1988, 10, (4), 459-462

1985

43. Dynamic models of the labor force behavior of married women which can be estimated using limited amounts of past information
    Journal of Econometrics, 1985, 27, (3), 273-298 View citations (31)
44. Estimating transition probabilities from panel data
    Economics Letters, 1985, 19, (1), 31-34
    See also Working Paper Estimating Transition Probabilities From Panel Data, Cahiers de recherche (1985) (1985)
45. On the performance of tests by Wu and by Hausman for detecting the ordinary least squares bias problem
    Journal of Econometrics, 1985, 29, (3), 213-227 View citations (23)
46. Rational Expectations and the Firm's Dividend Behavior
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1985, 67, (4), 606-15 View citations (6)

1983

47. Part-Time and Full-Time Work Behaviour of Married Women: A Model with a Doubly Truncated Dependent Variable
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1983, 16, (2), 229-57 View citations (29)

1982

48. On the Firm's Production, Capital Structure and Demand for Debt
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982, 64, (3), 384-93 View citations (2)

1981

49. A Comparison of the Labor Force Behavior of Married Women in the United States and Canada, with Special Attention to the Impact of Income Taxes
    Econometrica, 1981, 49, (2), 451-89 View citations (39)
50. On the Relationships among Several Specification Error Tests Presented by Durbin, Wu, and Hausman
    Econometrica, 1981, 49, (6), 1583-88 View citations (107)

1979

51. Job Opportunities, the Offered Wage, and the Labor Supply of Married Women
    American Economic Review, 1979, 69, (5), 787-805 View citations (28)

1978

52. On the impact of the tests for serial correlation upon the test of significance for the regression coefficient
    Journal of Econometrics, 1978, 7, (2), 199-210 View citations (2)

1973

53. On a Class of Stochastic Optimization Problems with a Specified Growth Pattern
    Management Science, 1973, 20, (2), 236-239
54. Some Programming Problems in Population Projection
    Operations Research, 1973, 21, (5), 1048-1062

Books

1985

1. The Second Paycheck
   Elsevier Monographs, Elsevier View citations (21)

Edited books

2008

1. Changing Corporate Governance Practices in China and Japan
   Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan

2004

2. Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society
   Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan

2001

3. The Japanese Business and Economic System
   Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan

Chapters

2018

1. Japan's Ultimately Unaccursed Natural Resources-financed Industrialization
   A chapter in Corporate Governance (NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference), 2018 View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Japan's ultimately unaccursed natural resources-financed industrialization, Elsevier (2018) (2018)
   Working Paper Japan’s Ultimately Unaccursed Natural Resources-Financed Industrialization, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) (2016)

2008

2. Corporate Governance Practices in Post-Bubble Japan: Adapting to the Globalizing Economies of the Twenty-First Century
   Palgrave Macmillan
3. Introduction
   Palgrave Macmillan
4. Selective Adaptation of Anglo-American Corporate Governance Practices in Japan
   Palgrave Macmillan

2005

5. A Frog in a Well Knows Nothing of the Ocean: A History of Corporate Ownership in Japan
   A chapter in A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers, 2005, pp 367-466 View citations (36)

2004

6. Aging, Female and Foreign Workers, and Japanese Labor Markets: An International Perspective
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (2)
7. Introduction
   Palgrave Macmillan
8. The Post-Bubble Japanese Business System and Globalization: Implications for Japanese Society
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)

2001

9. Conclusion
   Palgrave Macmillan
10. Environmental Issues and Japanese Firms
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (126)
11. Introduction
    Palgrave Macmillan
12. Japanese Corporate Governance and Macroeconomic Problems
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Japanese Corporate Governance and Macroeconomic Problems, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (2000) View citations (13) (2000)
13. Japan’s Economic Growth: Past and Present
    Palgrave Macmillan

1996

14. New Goods from the Perspective of Price Index Making in Canada and Japan
    A chapter in The Economics of New Goods, 1996, pp 437-476 View citations (2)

Undated

15. Economic Performance, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environmental Management, and Supply Chains in India: A Comparison with Japan
    IntechOpen
16. The Statistical Distributions of Industrial Wastes: an Analysis of the Japanese Establishment Linked Input-output Data
    IntechOpen