Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

1987 - 2025

Current editor(s): Takeo Hoshi

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Volume 34, issue C, 2014

The price disparity analysis revisited: An application to pork imports in Japan pp. 1-23

Kazuki Onji

Agglomeration effects of inter-firm backward and forward linkages: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing investment in China pp. 24-41

Nobuaki Yamashita, Toshiyuki Matsuura and Kentaro Nakajima

Choosing multiple offshoring strategies: Determinants and complementarity pp. 42-57

Janghee Cho, Hyunbae Chun and Jung Hur

Cross-border mergers with flexible policy regime: The role of efficiency and market size pp. 58-70

Mahelet Fikru and Sajal Lahiri

Performance-pay and the gender wage gap in Japan pp. 71-88

Hui-Yu Chiang and Fumio Ohtake

Are Japanese short sellers information detectives? pp. 89-97

Bong-Soo Lee and Kwangsoo Ko

Can formal elderly care stimulate female labor supply? The Japanese experience pp. 98-115

Shinya Sugawara and Jiro Nakamura

Real-time GDP forecasting for Japan: A dynamic factor model approach pp. 116-134

Satoshi Urasawa

What explains the recent fluctuations in Japan’s output? A structural factor analysis of Japan’s industrial production pp. 135-153

Yusuke Kumano, Ichiro Muto and Akihiro Nakano

Revenue versus incentive: Theory and empirical analysis of franchise royalties pp. 154-161

Masayoshi Maruyama and Yu Yamashita

Intensive margins, extensive margins, and spousal allowances in the Japanese system of personal income taxes: A discrete choice analysis pp. 162-178

Shun-ichiro Bessho and Masayoshi Hayashi

Estimating the effects of pronatal policies on residential choice and fertility pp. 179-200

Ryo Nakajima and Ryuichi Tanaka

Why do commercial banks hold government bonds? The case of Japan pp. 201-216

Kazuo Ogawa and Kentaro Imai

What caused Japan’s Great Stagnation in the 1990s? Evidence from an estimated DSGE model pp. 217-235

Sohei Kaihatsu and Takushi Kurozumi

Effects of presidents’ characteristics on internationalization of small and medium firms in Japan pp. 236-255

Yasuyuki Todo and Hitoshi Sato

Do Chinese and Korean products compete in the Japanese market? An investigation of machinery exports pp. 256-271

SaangJoon Baak

Employment protection and incentives: Severance pay vs. procedural inconvenience pp. 272-290

Kyota Eguchi

Procrastinators and hyperbolic discounters: Transition probabilities of moving from temporary into regular employment pp. 291-314

Sun Youn Lee and Fumio Ohtake

Corporate governance and the cost of public debt financing: Evidence from Japan pp. 315-335

Takanori Tanaka

The impact of firm-provided training on productivity, wages, and transition to regular employment for workers in flexible arrangements pp. 336-359

Hiromi Hara

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