Japan and the World Economy

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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

2018, volume 48, articles C

Japan-U.S. trade balance at commodity level and asymmetric effects of Yen-Dollar rate pp. 1-10

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Huseyin Karamelikli

Examining the Feldstein–Horioka puzzle using common factor panels and interval estimation pp. 11-21

Isamu Ginama, Kazuhiko Hayakawa and Takahiro Kanmei

Growth slowdowns and the middle-income trap pp. 22-37

Shekhar Aiyar, Romain Duval, Damien Puy, Yiqun Wu and Longmei Zhang

International environmental agreements between asymmetric countries: A repeated game analysis pp. 38-44

Nobuyuki Takashima

Occupational licenses and labor market outcomes in Japan pp. 45-56

Masayuki Morikawa

The dynamics of credit reallocation: South Korea's post-crisis experience pp. 57-70

Junghwan Hyun

Corporate social responsibility and the choice of price versus quantities pp. 71-78

Luciano Fanti and Domenico Buccella

Are elderly workers more likely to die in occupational accidents? Evidence from both industry-aggregated data and administrative individual-level data in Japan pp. 79-89

Takuya Hasebe and Tadashi Sakai

Firm-level labor demand for and macroeconomic increases in non-regular workers in Japan pp. 90-105

Hiroshi Teruyama, Yasuo Goto and Sebastien Lechevalier

Good boss, bad boss, workers’ mental health and productivity: Evidence from Japan pp. 106-118

Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto

2018, volume 47, articles C

The future prospect of the long-term care insurance in Japan pp. 1-17

Ryuta Kato

Formal and informal institutions and the expatriation assignment: The case of Japanese subsidiaries in Latin America pp. 18-26

Márcia Zabdiele Moreira and Mário Henrique Ogasavara

The role of corporate governance in Japanese unlisted companies pp. 27-39

Shin-ichi Fukuda, Munehisa Kasuya and Jouchi Nakajima

The effects of supply chain disruptions caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake on workers pp. 40-50

Ayako Kondo

The viability of a voting system that allocates parliamentary seats according to life expectancy: An analysis using OLG models pp. 51-57

Ryo Ishida and Kazumasa Oguro

Applicability of agglomeration to tourism economics pp. 58-67

Yusuke Adachi

2018, volume 46, articles C

Competitive pressure from neighboring markets and optimal privatization policy pp. 1-8

Junichi Haraguchi, Toshihiro Matsumura and Shohei Yoshida

Trends, cycles and lost decades: Decomposition from a DSGE model with endogenous growth pp. 9-28

Ryo Hasumi, Hirokuni Iiboshi and Daisuke Nakamura

Low real rates as driver of secular stagnation: Empirical assessment pp. 29-40

Jan Willem End and Marco Hoeberichts

The effects of consolidation on bank cost savings: Evidence from Japanese regional banks pp. 41-49

Kozo Harimaya

A model for liberalizing nursing and trade pp. 50-55

Masao Oda and Masayuki Okawa

Testing for multiple bubbles in bitcoin markets: A generalized sup ADF test pp. 56-63

Chi-Wei Su, Zheng-Zheng Li, Ran Tao and Deng-Kui Si

2018, volume 45, articles C

Consumer search costs, geographical concentration, and retail gasoline pricing: Evidence from inland Japan pp. 1-8

Eiji Satoh, Ryusuke Iwase, Keita Kamakura, Shinji Sawasato and Saki Tominaga

Credit ratings and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from Korea’s corporate reform after the 1997 Asian financial crisis pp. 9-18

Denis Yongmin Joe and Frederick Dongchuhl Oh

The offshoring threat and wage negotiations: Theory and evidence pp. 19-29

Yongsik Jeon and Chul-Woo Kwon

Why do export subsidies still exist? R&D and output subsidies pp. 30-38

Jeong Yoon and Kangsik Choi