Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

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Volume 33, issue C, 2014

Learning from the experiments that never happened: Lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa pp. 4-24

Francisco Campos, Aidan Coville, Ana Fernandes, Markus Goldstein and David McKenzie

Teaching KAIZEN to small business owners: An experiment in a metalworking cluster in Nairobi pp. 25-42

Yukichi Mano, John Akoten, Yutaka Yoshino and Tetsushi Sonobe

Disseminating new farming practices among small scale farmers: An experimental intervention in Uganda pp. 43-74

Tomoya Matsumoto

Do community-sanctioned social pressures constrain microenterprise growth? Evidence from a framed field experiment pp. 75-95

Alex Oo and Russell Toth

Microcredit games with noisy signals: Contagion and free-riding pp. 96-113

Hisaki Kono

Autonomy and efficiency. An experiment on household decisions in two regions of India pp. 114-133

Alistair Munro, Bereket Kebede, Marcela Tarazona-Gomez and Arjan Verschoor

Volume 32, issue C, 2014

Impact of diagonal cumulation rule on FTA utilization: Evidence from bilateral and multilateral FTAs between Japan and Thailand pp. 1-16

Kazunobu Hayakawa

The effect of instructional time reduction on educational attainment: Evidence from the Japanese curriculum standards revision pp. 17-41

Nobuyoshi Kikuchi

Parental income and child health in Japan pp. 42-55

Sayaka Nakamura

Glass ceiling in a stratified labor market: Evidence from Korea pp. 56-70

Joonmo Cho, Tai Lee and Hanna Jung

Childcare availability, fertility and female labor force participation in Japan pp. 71-85

Grace Lee and Sing Ping Lee

An estimated search and matching model of the Japanese labor market pp. 86-104

Ching-Yang Lin and Hiroaki Miyamoto

Budget deficits, government debt, and long-term interest rates in Japan pp. 105-124

Keigo Kameda

Volume 31, issue C, 2014

The contribution of the yen appreciation since 2007 to the Japanese economic debacle pp. 1-15

Willem Thorbecke

International financial integration and risk sharing among countries: A production-based approach pp. 16-35

H. Youn Kim

The market for corporate subsidiaries in Japan: An empirical study of trades among listed firms pp. 36-52

Tatsuo Ushijima and Ulrike Schaede

Is body mass human capital in sumo? Outcome of globalization and formation of human capital in Japan pp. 53-71

Eiji Yamamura

Does an R&D tax credit affect R&D expenditure? The Japanese R&D tax credit reform in 2003 pp. 72-97

Hiroyuki Kasahara, Katsumi Shimotsu and Michio Suzuki

The Harrod–Balassa–Samuelson effect and endogenous extensive margins pp. 98-113

Masashige Hamano

Volume 30, issue C, 2013

How do leverage ratios affect bank share performance during financial crises: The Japanese experience of the late 1990s pp. 1-18

Sichong Chen

Cluster-based industrial development in contemporary developing countries and modern Japanese economic history pp. 19-32

Tomoko Hashino and Keijiro Otsuka

Fiscal stimulus and labor market dynamics in Japan pp. 33-58

Ryuta Kato and Hiroaki Miyamoto

A numerical evaluation of the sustainable size of the primary deficit in Japan pp. 59-75

Real Arai and Junji Ueda

Do contagion effects exist in capital flow volatility? pp. 76-95

Hyun-Hoon Lee, Cyn-Young Park and Hyung-suk Byun

R&D, trade in intermediate inputs, and the comparative advantage of advanced countries pp. 96-110

Shuichiro Nishioka

Volume 29, issue C, 2013

Measuring currency pressures: The cases of the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, and the UK pound pp. 1-20

Stephen Hall, Amangeldi Kenjegaliev, P.A.V.B. Swamy and George Tavlas

Evaluation of board reforms: An examination of the appointment of outside directors pp. 21-43

Byung-Seong Min

Is longer unemployment rewarded with longer job tenure? pp. 44-56

Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki and Tomohiro Machikita

Firms’ demand for work hours: Evidence from matched firm-worker data in Japan pp. 57-73

Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto

Bank dependence and financial constraints on investment: Evidence from the corporate bond market paralysis in Japan pp. 74-97

Taisuke Uchino

Free entry, market diffusion, and social inefficiency with endogenously growing demand pp. 98-116

Hiroshi Kitamura, Akira Miyaoka and Misato Sato

Sources of time-varying trade balance and real exchange rate dynamics in East Asia pp. 117-141

Sohrab Rafiq

A mixed blessing of lifespan heterogeneity pp. 142-153

Emin Gahramanov and Xueli Tang

How does the first job matter for an individual’s career life in Japan? pp. 154-169

Junya Hamaaki, Masahiro Hori, Saeko Maeda and Keiko Murata

Endogenous monetary policy shifts and the term structure: Evidence from Japanese government bond yields pp. 170-188

Junko Koeda

Volume 28, issue C, 2013

Conditional forecast selection from many forecasts: An application to the Yen/Dollar exchange rate pp. 1-18

Kei Kawakami

Declining long-term employment in Japan pp. 19-36

Daiji Kawaguchi and Yuko Ueno

What does a temporary help service job offer? Empirical suggestions from a Japanese survey pp. 37-68

Hiroko Okudaira, Fumio Ohtake, Koichi Kume and Kotaro Tsuru

Central banks and gold puzzles pp. 69-90

Joshua Aizenman and Kenta Inoue

Enterprise unions and downsizing in Japan before and after 1997 pp. 91-118

Tomohiko Noda and Daisuke Hirano

Volume 27, issue C, 2013

Organization adjustments, job training and productivity: Evidence from Japanese automobile makers pp. 1-34

Kenn Ariga, Masako Kurosawa, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki and Shoko Yamane

Effects of public investment on sectoral private investment: A factor augmented VAR approach pp. 35-47

Takao Fujii, Kazuki Hiraga and Masafumi Kozuka

Does international knowledge spillover always lead to a positive trickle down? pp. 48-63

Shiro Kuwahara

Global production sharing and the FDI–trade nexus: New evidence from the Japanese automobile industry pp. 64-80

Shuhei Nishitateno

How serious is the omission of bilateral tariff rates in gravity? pp. 81-94

Kazunobu Hayakawa

Volume 26, issue 4, 2012

A simple accounting framework for the effect of resource misallocation on aggregate productivity pp. 473-494

Shuhei Aoki

Capital injection, restructuring targets and personnel management: The case of Japanese regional banks pp. 495-517

Kazuki Onji, David Vera and Jenny Corbett

The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem pp. 518-541

Tatiana Didier and Alexandre Lowenkron

Asymmetries and state dependence: The impact of macro surprises on intraday exchange rates pp. 542-560

Rasmus Fatum, Michael Hutchison and Thomas Wu

Trade liberalization, wages, and specialization in China pp. 561-577

Chang Hong

When did firms become more different? Time-varying firm-specific volatility in Japan pp. 578-601

Emmanuel De Veirman and Andrew Levin

Volume 26, issue 3, 2012

The impact of business regulatory reforms on economic growth pp. 285-307

Jamal Haidar

Trade liberalization and welfare: Differentiated-good versus homogeneous-good markets pp. 308-325

Hajime Takatsuka and Dao-Zhi Zeng

Life-cycle search, match quality and Japan’s labor market pp. 326-350

Julen Esteban-Pretel and Junichi Fujimoto

Retail power market competition with endogenous entry decision—An auction data analysis pp. 351-368

Nobuhiro Hosoe and Shingo Takagi

The choice of organizational form under intrafirm bargaining rules pp. 369-392

Fumi Kiyotaki and Toshiji Miyakawa

Testing the incentive effects in tournaments with a superstar pp. 393-404

Ryuichi Tanaka and Kazutoshi Ishino

Do households smooth expenditure over anticipated income changes? Evidence from bonus payments to public employees in Japan pp. 405-433

Masahiro Hori and Satoshi Shimizutani

Optimal borrowing structure: An explanation for the multiplicity of large-share creditors and the differentiation among them pp. 434-453

Shinjiro Miyazawa

On the comparison of alternative specifications for money demand: The case of extremely low interest rate regimes in Japan pp. 454-471

Kiyotaka Nakashima and Makoto Saito

Volume 26, issue 2, 2012

Business groups, foreign direct investment, and capital goods trade: The import behavior of Japanese affiliates pp. 187-200

Rene Belderbos, Ryuhei Wakasugi and Jianglei Zou

Measuring economic localization: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data pp. 201-220

Kentaro Nakajima, Yukiko Saito and Iichiro Uesugi

Yen-synchronization of floating East Asian currencies: A regime-switching regression model and micro-structural analysis pp. 221-232

Bong-Han Kim, Hong-Ghi Min, Judy McDonald and Young-Soon Hwang

The impact of foreign investors on the risk-taking of Japanese firms pp. 233-248

Pascal Nguyen

Impact of overtime regulations on wages and work hours pp. 249-262

Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto

The effect of mergers on employment and wages: Evidence from Japan pp. 263-284

Katsuyuki Kubo and Takuji Saito

Volume 26, issue 1, 2012

Long-term effects of labor market conditions on family formation for Japanese youth pp. 1-22

Yuki Hashimoto and Ayako Kondo

A cohort analysis of male labor supply in Japan pp. 23-43

Yukiko Abe

Gross worker flows and unemployment dynamics in Japan pp. 44-61

Ching-Yang Lin and Hiroaki Miyamoto

The impact of retirement on household consumption in Japan pp. 62-83

Melvin Stephens and Takashi Unayama

The effects of collateral on firm performance pp. 84-109

Arito Ono, Koji Sakai and Iichiro Uesugi

Globalisation, multinationals and productivity in Japan’s lost decade pp. 110-128

Richard Kneller, Danny McGowan, Tomohiko Inui and Toshiyuki Matsuura

Big push or big failure? On the effectiveness of industrialization policies for economic development pp. 129-141

Kjetil Bjorvatn and Nicola Coniglio

Profit-enhancing competitive pressure in vertically related industries pp. 142-152

Noriaki Matsushima and Tomomichi Mizuno

Using capabilities to project growth, 2010–2030 pp. 153-166

Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar and Arnelyn Abdon

Carbon emissions, trade liberalization, and the Japan–ASEAN interaction: A group-wise examination pp. 167-178

Cemal Atici

The effects of Bank of Japan’s liquidity provision on the year-end premium pp. 179-185

Yasuo Hirose, Shinsuke Ohyama and Ken Taniguchi