Japan and the World Economy

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): Robert Dekle and Yasushi Hamao

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Commodity prices and global economic activity: Akito Matsumoto, Andrea Pescatori and Xueliang Wang
Chronological changes of government sectors’ fiscal policies and fiscal sustainability in Japan: Motonori Yoshida
Why do people oppose foreign acquisitions? Evidence from Japanese individual-level data: Banri Ito, Ayumu Tanaka and Naoto Jinji
A 50-year history of “zombie firms” in Japan: How banks and shareholders have been involved in corporate bailouts?: Jun-Ichi Nakamura
Management innovations in family firms after CEO successions: Evidence from Japanese SMEs: Hirofumi Uchida, Kazuo Yamada and Alberto Zazzaro
What hinders digital communication? Evidence from foreign firms in Japan: Kiyoyasu Tanaka
Self-preferencing by platforms: A literature review: Yuta Kittaka, Susumu Sato and Yusuke Zennyo
Why is the forecast error of quarterly GDP in Japan so large? – From an international comparison of quarterly GDP forecast situation: Yasuyuki Komaki
Why is Japan’s carbon emissions from road transportation declining?: Yoshifumi Konishi and Sho Kuroda

Is downsizing a good strategy during the downturn? Evidence from Taiwanese manufacturing firms: Eric Lin, Chia-Ling Lin, Hui-Lin Lin and Yi-Chi Hsiao
The Balassa-Samuelson model with job separations: Noel Gaston and Taiyo Yoshimi
Impact of international expansion strategy on the performance of Japanese banks: Joseph Aduba and Kozo Harimaya
Expenditure responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Junichi Kikuchi, Ryoya Nagao and Yoshiyuki Nakazono
Elderly long-term care policy and sandwich caregivers’ time allocation between child-rearing and market labor: Akira Yakita
Consumer price measurement under the first wave of the COVID-19 spread in Japan: Scanner data evidence for retailers in Tokyo: Masahiro Higo and Shigenori Shiratsuka

Traveling and eating out during the COVID-19 pandemic: The Go To campaign policies in Japan: Toshihiro Okubo
FDI, ownership structure, and productivity: Tadashi Ito and Ayumu Tanaka
Looking from Gross Domestic Income: Alternative view of Japan’s economy: Toshitaka Sekine
FX swaps and forwards in global dollar debt: “Known knowns” and “known unknowns”: Patrick McGuire
On expenditure/income discrepancies in national accounts in the presence of two price units: Makoto Saito
Transportation infrastructure and trade: Zheng Han and Hongtao Li

How effective was the restaurant restraining order against COVID-19? A nighttime light study in Japan: Kazunobu Hayakawa, Souknilanh Keola and Shujiro Urata
Initial funding and founders’ human capital: An empirical analysis using multiple surveys for start-up firms: Yuji Honjo, Charee Kwak and Hirofumi Uchida
Impact of career education on high school students’ occupational choice: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial: Ryosuke Moriyasu and Toru Kobayashi
Determinants of the number of bidders and win-reserve ratio in open competitive tendering: Relationship-specific investments and incomplete contracts: Yoshinobu Nakanishi
Measuring concentration in the Japanese loan and deposit markets: Iichiro Uesugi, Kazuki Hiraga, Masashi Manabe and Naoyuki Yoshino

Population aging and labor mobility in Japan: Ryuta Ray Kato
Impact of COVID-19 on trade in services: Mitsuyo Ando and Kazunobu Hayakawa
The evolution of Japanese keiretsu networks: A review and text network analysis of their perceptions in economics: Artur F. Tomeczek
The effect of price on the quality of public construction in Japan: Kentaro Hatsumi and Rieko Ishii
The impact of exchange rate changes on the Japanese chemical industry: Willem Thorbecke, Nimesh Salike and Chen Chen

Economic de-integration in North America and foreign direct investment from Japan: Nobuhiro Hosoe
Evaluating Japan's corporate income tax reform using firm-specific effective tax rates: Toshiyuki Uemura
Estimating the elasticity of taxable income: Evidence from top Japanese taxpayers: Takeshi Miyazaki and Ryo Ishida
What drives the regional disparities in municipal national health insurance premiums?: Ruka Kurono
Comparison of the price adjustment program and subsidy scheme in Japan: Evaluation of domestic sugar support policy to internalize positive externalities: Takashi Fujimoto and Masahide Watanabe
Comparison of the productivity of public capital by project type: Central-government, subsidized-local, and unsubsidized-local projects in Japan: Keigo Kameda, Zhenkun Lu and Masaki Fukui
Determinants of VAT pass-through under imperfect competition: Evidence from Japan: Kosuke Shiraishi

Trade deficits and trade conflict: The United States and Japan: Ron Wickes
Local fiscal multipliers and population aging in Japan: Shun-ichiro Bessho
Propagation of economic shocks through vertical and trade linkages in Korea: An empirical analysis: Dongyeol Lee
Real dollarization in Phnom Penh, Evidence from two surveys: Chanthol Hay
Effects of deductions on the tax burden reduction and the redistribution of the income and resident taxes: Taro Ohno, Junpei Sakamaki, Daizo Kojima and Tomotsugu Imahori
A new assessment of economic integration in East Asia: Application of an industry-specific G-PPP model: Kentaro Kawasaki and Kiyotaka Sato
Capitalization of local government grants on land values: Evidence from Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan: Takafumi Suzuki

Who is the center of local currency Asian government bond markets?: Junji Shimada, Yoshihiko Tsukuda and Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi
The effect of import competition on labor income inequality through firm and worker heterogeneity in the Japanese manufacturing sector: Masahiro Endoh
FDI, Export Sophistication, and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from China's WTO Accession: Yunong Li, Mengkai Yang and Lianming Zhu
Impacts of increased Chinese imports on Japan’s labor market: Kazunobu Hayakawa, Tadashi Ito and Shujiro Urata
Impacts of additional compliance requirements of regulations on the margins of trade: Kaoru Nabeshima, Ayako Obashi and Kunhyui Kim
The time-frequency analysis of conventional and unconventional monetary policy: Evidence from Japan: Xiangcai Meng and Chia-Hsing Huang
Global knowledge flow and Japanese multinational firms’ offshore R&D allocation and innovation: Keiko Ito, Kenta Ikeuchi and Taro Daiko