Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

1987 - 2025

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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

Volume 25, issue 4, 2011

Learning the fiscal theory of the price level: Some consequences of debt-management policy pp. 358-379

Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston

Fiscal policy switching in Japan, the US, and the UK pp. 380-413

Arata Ito, Tsutomu Watanabe and Tomoyoshi Yabu

Japanese government debt and sustainability of fiscal policy pp. 414-433

Takero Doi, Takeo Hoshi and Tatsuyoshi Okimoto

Fiscal sustainability in Japan pp. 434-446

Masaya Sakuragawa and Kaoru Hosono

Stock price targeting and fiscal deficit in Japan: Why did the fiscal deficit increase during Japan’s lost decades? pp. 447-464

Shin-ichi Fukuda and Junji Yamada

Cooperative fiscal policy at the zero lower bound pp. 465-486

David Cook and Michael Devereux

Volume 25, issue 3, 2011

Do education vouchers prevent dropout at private high schools? Evidence from Japanese policy changes pp. 183-198

Hideo Akabayashi and Hiroko Araki

A politically feasible social security reform with a two-tier structure pp. 199-224

Tomoaki Yamada

Bayesian analysis of time-varying parameter vector autoregressive model for the Japanese economy and monetary policy pp. 225-245

Jouchi Nakajima, Munehisa Kasuya and Toshiaki Watanabe

What causes business cycles? Analysis of the Japanese industrial production data pp. 246-272

Hiroshi Iyetomi, Yasuhiro Nakayama, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Hideaki Aoyama, Yoshi Fujiwara, Yuichi Ikeda and Wataru Souma

Complex vertical FDI and firm heterogeneity: Evidence from East Asia pp. 273-289

Kazunobu Hayakawa and Toshiyuki Matsuura

Surfing the waves of globalization: Asia and financial globalization in the context of the trilemma pp. 290-320

Joshua Aizenman, Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito

Asian holding of US Treasury securities: Trade integration as a threshold pp. 321-335

Akiko Hagiwara

The new main bank system pp. 336-354

Mami Kobayashi and Hiroshi Osano

Volume 25, issue 2, 2011

What drives the profitability of Japanese multi-business corporations? A variance components analysis pp. 1-11

Yoshitaka Fukui and Tatsuo Ushijima

World-consistent equilibrium exchange rates pp. 12-32

Agnès Benassy-Quere, Amina Lahrèche-Révil and Valérie Mignon

Investigating the effect of exchange rate changes on china's processed exports pp. 33-46

Willem Thorbecke

International monetary arrangements for the 21st century--Which way? pp. 47-63

Monzur Hossain

Actual age at school entry, educational outcomes, and earnings pp. 64-80

Daiji Kawaguchi

Estimates of average marginal tax rates on factor incomes in Japan pp. 81-106

Hiroshi Gunji and Kenji Miyazaki

Real-time analysis on Japan's labor productivity pp. 107-130

Naoko Hara and Hibiki Ichiue

The determinants of exit from institutions and the price elasticity of institutional care: Evidence from Japanese micro-level data pp. 131-142

Haruko Noguchi and Satoshi Shimizutani

Transmission of liquidity shock to bank credit: Evidence from the deposit insurance reform in Japan pp. 143-156

Masami Imai and Seitaro Takarabe

Size and liquidity effects in Japanese regional stock markets pp. 157-181

Bruce Hearn

Volume 25, issue 1, 2011

Did mergers help Japanese mega-banks avoid failure? Analysis of the distance to default of banks pp. 1-22

Kimie Harada and Takatoshi Ito

The evolving renminbi regime and implications for Asian currency stability pp. 23-38

Guonan Ma and Robert McCauley

The Equal Employment Opportunity Law and labor force behavior of women in Japan pp. 39-55

Yukiko Abe

Jobs with different wage determination mechanisms, social efficiency and unemployment pp. 56-75

Makoto Masui

Livelihood and care of the elderly: Determinants of public attitudes in Japan pp. 76-98

Bernd Hayo and Hiroyuki Ono