The Japanese Economic Review

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Michihiro Kandori

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Demographic challenges and economic stagnation in Japan pp. 411-433: Takeo Hoshi
Recipient of the 2025 Nakahara Prize: Professor Kei Kawai, the University of Tokyo pp. 435-436: Ryo Horii
Detecting collusion in public procurement: lessons from data-driven screening tools pp. 437-446: Kei Kawai
The 2025 Japanese Economic Association Award for Young Female Researchers sponsored by the Nippon Life Insurance Company: Dr. Yukiko Hashida pp. 447-449: Kimiko Terai, Ayako Kondo, Etsuro Shioji, Ai Takeuchi and Reiko Aoki
Economics of climate change adaptation through land use and management pp. 451-469: Yukiko Hashida and David J. Lewis
Survey of demographics, family, and fiscal sustainability in Japan: macroeconomic approaches pp. 471-507: Sagiri Kitao and Tomoaki Yamada
Lessons from Japan’s experience with trade and foreign direct investment: a survey pp. 509-557: Kozo Kiyota
Long-term employment in Japan: past and present pp. 559-575: Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato

Interpreting event-studies from recent difference-in-differences methods pp. 275-288: Jonathan Roth
Adaptive welfare maximization pp. 289-331: Kirill Ponomarev and Liqiang Shi
The Hellinger bounds on the Kullback–Leibler divergence and the Bernstein norm pp. 333-354: Tetsuya Kaji
Why do the elderly save? using health shocks to uncover bequest motives pp. 355-378: Tetsuya Kaji and Elena Manresa
Mcmc proposals based on method of moments with an application to finite beta mixtures pp. 379-389: Andriy Norets and Xun Tang
Distributional treatment effects of content promotion: evidence from an ABEMA field experiment pp. 391-406: Shota Yasui, Tatsushi Oka, Undral Byambadalai and Yuki Oishi
Correction: Adaptive welfare maximization pp. 407-407: Kirill Ponomarev and Liqiang Shi

Robustness in binary-action supermodular games revisited pp. 1-13: Daisuke Oyama and Satoru Takahashi
Would monetary incentives to COVID-19 vaccination reduce motivation? pp. 15-44: Eiji Yamamura, Yoshiro Tsutsui and Fumio Ohtake
Identifying dynamic discrete choice models with hyperbolic discounting pp. 45-67: Taiga Tsubota
Price discrimination in a double horizontal differentiated duopoly market pp. 69-87: Halvor Mehlum
Pass-through and tax incidence in Cournot duopoly with loan commitment pp. 89-101: Di Wu, Leonard F. S. Wang, Jen-Yao Lee and Haiyang Hu
Evidence on price stickiness in Japan pp. 103-137: Kozo Ueda
The impact of the Bank of Japan’s exchange traded fund and corporate bond purchases on firms’ capital structure pp. 139-191: Thuy Linh Nguyen
The child allowance policy and household consumption behavior in Japan pp. 193-244: Huihui Li and Minae Niki
Entrepreneurship of Chinese traditional men: gender identity, social capital and self-employment pp. 245-274: Yucong Zhao and Bing Ye

How Masa Fujita shaped the present of spatial economics and how he will inspire its future pp. 691-716: Gilles Duranton and Tomoya Mori
Equilibrium land use with collective housing developments: voting with feet and entrepreneurship pp. 717-739: Hideo Konishi
The heterogeneous determinants of coagglomeration: a differenced perspective pp. 741-794: Kristian Behrens and Rachel Guillain
The role of human interaction in innovation: evidence from the 1918 influenza pandemic in Japan pp. 795-820: Hiroyasu Inoue, Kentaro Nakajima, Tetsuji Okazaki and Yukiko Saito
Knowledge creation through multimodal communication pp. 821-890: Marcus Berliant and Masahisa Fujita
Multi-dimensional informality and heterogeneity of microenterprises in urban Africa pp. 891-925: Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hino, Charles Piot and Jiahan Yin
Voluntary firm exits and inter-firm transaction networks in an ageing society pp. 927-955: Kongphop Wongkaew and Yukiko Saito
Social integration of immigrants in cities: theory and evidence from the European Social Survey pp. 957-986: Hiroyuki Matsuyama, Chigusa Okamoto and Yasuhiro Sato

What economists should contribute to Japanese competition policy pp. 523-535: Reiko Aoki
The 2024 Japanese economic association nakahara prize: recipient—prof. Takuo Sugaya, Stanford university pp. 537-538: Susumu Imai
Keeping players in the dark: benefits of private monitoring pp. 539-564: Takuo Sugaya
The 2024 Japan Economic Association Award for Young Female Researchers sponsored by the Nippon Life Insurance Company pp. 565-566: Chiaki Moriguchi, Mari Tanaka, Akihiko Matsui, Izumi Yokoyama and Charles Horioka
Does participation in village assembly lead to improved public good allocation? Evidence from India pp. 567-586: D. Rajasekhar, Takashi Kurosaki, R. Manjula and Yuko Mori
Survey of the effects of unconventional monetary policy in Japan pp. 587-619: Kosuke Aoki and Kozo Ueda
Macroeconomic facts in the Japanese labor market: survey pp. 621-666: Hiroaki Miyamoto
Firm entry and exit dynamics in Japan: institutions, policies, and empirical insights pp. 667-687: Miho Takizawa
Correction: An analysis of altruistic and selfish motivations underlying hometown tax donations in Japan pp. 689-690: Eiji Yamamura, Yoshiro Tsutsui and Fumio Ohtake

Preface to the JER special issue on “Heterogeneity and Macroeconomics” pp. 227-229: Toshihiko Mukoyama, Makoto Nakajima and Tomoaki Yamada
Earnings, income, and wealth inequality in Japan: a long-term perspective, 1984–2019 pp. 231-283: Sagiri Kitao and Tomoaki Yamada
Medical expenditures over the life-cycle: persistent risks and insurance pp. 285-336: Taiyo Fukai, Hidehiko Ichimura, Sagiri Kitao and Minamo Mikoshiba
Establishment dynamics in post-war Japan: missing entry and shrinking size pp. 337-374: Xuanli Zhu
Macroeconomic and welfare effects of family policy: cash transfers vs in-kind benefits pp. 375-427: Reona Hagiwara
Productivity over the life-cycle and its effect on the interest rate pp. 429-461: Momo Komatsu, David Murakami and Ivan Shchapov
Fiscal sustainability and market incompleteness: quantitative findings for Japan pp. 463-491: Selahattin İmrohoroğlu and Akio Ino
Discretizing earnings dynamics: implications of Gaussian-mixture shocks for life-cycle models pp. 493-519: Robert Kirkby

The optimum quantity of debt for an aging Japan: welfare and demographic dynamics pp. 1-52: Akira Okamoto
Aggregate productivity slowdown and share of temporary workers pp. 53-89: Nobuyuki Kanazawa
Did the BOJ’s negative interest rate policy increase bank lending? pp. 91-120: Hiroshi Gunji
Cashless payment methods and COVID-19: evidence from Japanese consumer panel data pp. 121-162: Hiroshi Fujiki
Interim information and managerial risk taking in professional basketball pp. 163-194: Wen-Jhan Jane
The role of nudge-based messages on the acceptability and download of COVID-19 contact tracing apps: survey experiments pp. 195-225: Hirofumi Kurokawa, Shusaku Sasaki and Fumio Ohtake