Japan and the World Economy

1988 - 2025

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2020, volume 56, articles C

How Japanese firms can weather endaka periods: Evidence from the transportation equipment industry

Willem Thorbecke

The computable general equilibrium analysis of the reduction in tariffs and non-tariff measures within the Korea-Japan-European Union free trade agreement

Chae-Deug Yi

From firm-level imports to aggregate productivity: Evidence from Korean manufacturing firm data

JaeBin Ahn and Moon Jung Choi

On the direct and indirect effects of the Great East Japan earthquake on self rated health through social connections: Mediation analysis

Atsushi Sannabe, Jun Aida, Yuri Wada, Yukinobu Ichida, Katsunori Kondo and Ichiro Kawachi

More-money and less-cash effects of diversification: Evidence from Japanese firms

Tatsuo Ushijima

Monetary policy shocks and exchange rates in Asian countries

Jihae Kim, Soyoung Kim and Donghyun Park

2020, volume 55, articles C

Regional convergence under declining population: The case of Japan

Shin-ichi Fukuda and Koki Okumura

The Effects of M&A on Corporate Performance in Japan:DID Analysis in the Era of Corporate Governance Reform

Akira Fukuda

Do domestic producers benefit from safeguards? The case of a Japanese safeguard on Chinese vegetable imports in 2001

Kazutaka Takechi

Technology convergence networks for flexible display application: A comparative analysis of latecomers and leaders

Yong Jin Kim and Duk Hee Lee

Are the actual and intended sources of financial knowledge the same? Evidence from Japan

Hiroshi Fujiki

Structural breaks in the mean of dividend-price ratios: Implications of learning on stock return predictability

Chunji Xuan and Chang-Jin Kim

Can the Japanese agri-food producers survive under freer trade? A general equilibrium analysis with farm heterogeneity and product differentiation

Nobuhiro Hosoe and Yuko Akune

2020, volume 54, articles C

Foreign debt, global liquidity, and fiscal sustainability

Danbee Park and Taeyoon Sung

Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest with Financial Gaps: The Cases of Japan and South Korea

Dong Jin Lee, Joon-Ho Hahm, Hail Park and Ki Young Park

Intergenerational Inequality and the Contract Out Policy in Public Health Care

Naomi Miyazato

Cash demand and financial literacy: A case study using Japanese survey data

Hiroshi Fujiki

Government fiscal projection and debt sustainability

Masaya Sakuragawa and Yukie Sakuragawa

Which external shock matters in small open economies? Global risk aversion vs. US economic policy uncertainty

Youngju Kim, Hyunjoon Lim and Wook Sohn

The link between entrepreneurship and informal investment: An international comparison

Yuji Honjo and Hiroki Nakamura

Childhood health and future outcomes: Evidence from panel surveys for the Japanese population

Michio Yuda

2020, volume 53, articles C

Effects of class-size reduction on cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Hirotake Ito, Makiko Nakamuro and Shintaro Yamaguchi

Demographic change, human capital, and economic growth in Korea

Jong-Suk Han and Jong-Wha Lee

Income volatility, household leverage, and consumption in Korea

Daesun Jung and Young Sik Kim

Was the expansion of housing credit in Japan good or bad?

Charles Horioka and Yoko Niimi

Macroeconomic effects of macroprudential policies: Evidence from LTV and DTI policies in Korea

Soyoung Kim and Junbeom Oh

Participation in the Kaesong Industrial Complex and its impact on productivity: South Korean textile firms’ experiences

Sungtaek Cho, Do Won Kwak and Hongshik Lee

2019, volume 52, articles C

Long-term consequences of group work in Japanese public elementary schools

Kohei Kubota, Takahiro Ito and Fumio Ohtake

The effect of instructional quality on student achievement: Evidence from Japan

Hiroyuki Motegi and Masato Oikawa

Subject variety and incentives to learn: Evidence from public high school admission policies in Japan

Hideo Akabayashi and Michio Naoi

Do the disadvantaged benefit more from small classes? Evidence from a large-scale survey in Japan

Masakazu Hojo and Wataru Senoh

The effect of student loans on college enrollment: Evidence from municipality panel data in Japan

Shinpei Sano

What drives business cycles in Korea?

Yongseung Jung

2019, volume 51, articles C

Are inflated domestic credit ratings relative to global ratings associated with peer firms’ investment decisions? Evidence from Korea pp. -

Kwang Wuk Oh and Hyun Ah Kim

The performance of Chinese equity funds: An extension of DGTW model pp. -

Yaping Wang, Miyoun Paek and Kwangsoo Ko

Nonlinear effects of population aging on economic growth pp. -

Hyun-Hoon Lee and Kwanho Shin

How do exporters respond to exogenous shocks: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data pp. -

Ayumu Tanaka, Banri Ito and Ryuhei Wakasugi

Are Japanese companies less risky and less profitable than US companies? Evidence from a matched sample pp. -

Jiangtao Fu and Yoshiaki Ogura

2019, volume 50, articles C

Individual characteristics, behavioral biases, and attitudes toward foreign workers: Evidence from a survey in Japan pp. 1-13

Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito, Hiroshi Mukunoki and Ryuhei Wakasugi

Demographics and interest rates in Asia pp. 14-24

Serkan Arslanalp, Jaewoo Lee and Umang Rawat

The impact of financial development on the effectiveness of inflation targeting in developing economies pp. 25-35

Alice Y. Ouyang and Ramkishen Rajan

Evaluating remedial education in elementary schools: Administrative data from a municipality in Japan pp. 36-46

Shun-ichiro Bessho, Haruko Noguchi, Akira Kawamura, Ryuichi Tanaka and Koichi Ushijima

Wage inequality and establishment heterogeneity pp. 47-55

In Kyung Kim and Jozef Konings

Private finance initiative in incomplete contracts: Theory and evidence from Japan pp. 56-65

Yukari Fukuda

A spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model for panel data incorporating a model of technical inefficiency pp. 66-77

Takahiro Tsukamoto

2019, volume 49, articles C

Listing and financial constraints pp. 1-16

Kenichi Ueda, Akira Ishide and Yasuo Goto

Network structures and credit risk in cross-shareholdings among listed Japanese companies pp. 17-31

Masayasu Kanno

Did the least developed countries benefit from duty-free quota-free access to the Japanese market? pp. 32-39

Tadashi Ito and Takahide Aoyagi

Effects of state-sponsored human capital investment on the selection of training type pp. 40-49

Izumi Yokoyama, Naomi Kodama and Yoshio Higuchi

Detecting currency manipulation: An application of a state-space model with Markov switching pp. 50-60

Ki Young Park and Soohyon Kim

J-liquidity measure: The term structure of the liquidity premium in Japan pp. 61-72

Takahiro Hattori

Multiple job holding as a strategy for skills development pp. 73-83

Atsushi Kawakami

Maternity harassment in Japan: Why do regular employees have higher risk than non-regular employees do? pp. 84-94

Akira Kawaguchi

Employees who do not know their labour contract term and the implications for working conditions: Evidence from Japanese and Spanish microdata pp. 95-104

Yuji Genda, Markus Heckel and Ryo Kambayashi

Unfinished business: Zombie firms among SME in Japan’s lost decades pp. 105-112

Yasuo Goto and Scott Wilbur

Some evidence on the cohort earnings differentials of men in Japan pp. 113-125

Souichi Ohta

Electoral rules and free trade agreements as a campaign issue: The case of political disputes over the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Japan pp. 126-137

Koichi Kagitani and Kozo Harimaya

Smoking and wage rates – Evidence from Japanese panel data pp. 138-150

Yawen Sun

R&D and patenting activities of foreign firms in China: The case of Japan pp. 151-160

Chih-Hai Yang, Toshiyuki Matsuura and Tadashi Ito

Has ODA contributed to growth? An assessment of the impact of Japanese ODA pp. 161-175

Yasuaki Momita, Tomoya Matsumoto and Keijiro Otsuka

The effect of inheritance receipt on individual labor supply: Evidence from Japanese microdata pp. 176-186

Takeshi Niizeki and Masahiro Hori

Happiness before and after an election: An analysis based on a daily survey around Japan’s 2009 election pp. 187-194

Yusuke Kinari, Fumio Ohtake, Miles Kimball, Shoko Morimoto and Yoshiro Tsutsui

Trade-size clustering and price efficiency pp. 195-203

Tao Chen

Working capital management during the global financial crisis: Evidence from Japan pp. 206-219

Daisuke Tsuruta