The Japanese Economic Review

2016 - 2025

Continuation of The Japanese Economic Review.

Current editor(s): Michihiro Kandori

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Volume 76, issue 1, 2025

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

Volume 75, issue 4, 2024

Preface to the special issue on “Demographic change and wellbeing in Japan and Asian economies” pp. 483-484

Yasuyuki Sawada

The state of mental health among older Chinese and the role of children pp. 485-517

Yi Chen and Hanming Fang

Wellbeing of the older individuals in East Asia pp. 519-546

Hidehiko Ichimura, Xiaoyan Lei, Chulhee Lee, Jinkook Lee, Albert Park and Yasuyuki Sawada

Well-being paradox: comparing the age-happiness relationship across Japan, China, and the US pp. 547-562

Takashi Oshio and Satoshi Shimizutani

The state of well-being of older people: a comparative study across developing Asia pp. 563-609

Aiko Kikkawa, Martino Pelli, Lennart O. Reiners and Douglas Rhein

Family structure, gender, and subjective well-being: effect of children before and after COVID-19 in Japan pp. 611-635

Eiji Yamamura and Fumio Ohtake

Who suffered most in the pandemic? A distribution regression analysis of happiness in Japan pp. 637-690

Anqi Li and Shiko Maruyama

Unraveling the determinants of overemployment and underemployment among older workers in Japan: A machine learning approach pp. 691-737

Meilian Zhang, Ting Yin, Emiko Usui, Takashi Oshio and Yi Zhang

Does free cancer screening make a difference? Evidence from the effects of a free-coupon program in Japan pp. 739-778

Meng Zhao

National Transfer Accounts (NTA) in Japan: 1984−2014 pp. 779-821

Taiyo Fukai, Setsuya Fukuda, Hidehiko Ichimura, Daigo Nakata, Itaru Sato and Kazuyuki Terada

Impact of retirement and re-employment on the life satisfaction of older adults in Korea pp. 823-852

Do Won Kwak and Jong-Wha Lee

Accessing long-term care social insurance benefits in South Korea and its correlates pp. 853-876

Joelle H. Fong and John Piggott

Upstream or downstream transfer behind patrilocal coresidence? Evidence from three-generational panel data pp. 877-926

Meng-Chi Tang and Hsin-Yi Chiu

Subjective well-being of older persons in Malaysia pp. 927-950

Maki Nakajima, Aiko Kikkawa, Norma Mansor and Halimah Awang

The impact of ICT development on female employment and household’s well-being in Vietnam pp. 951-978

Hang Nguyen, Miki Kohara and Secil Er

An empirical study of the well-being of older individuals in China, Japan, and Korea pp. 979-1006

Selahattin İmrohoroğlu and Zhixiu Yu

On the effectiveness of insurance mechanisms for older individuals in China pp. 1007-1040

Jingyi Fang and Yasuyuki Sawada

Correction: Well-being paradox: comparing the age-happiness relationship across Japan, China, and the US pp. 1041-1042

Takashi Oshio and Satoshi Shimizutani

Volume 75, issue 3, 2024

The Feldstein–Horioka Puzzle or Paradox after 44 years: a fallacy of composition pp. 383-404

Charles Horioka

The 2023 Japanese Economic Association Nakahara Prize: Recipient—Prof. Toru Kitagawa, Brown University and University College London pp. 405-406

Ryo Okui

Bandit algorithms for policy learning: methods, implementation, and welfare-performance pp. 407-447

Toru Kitagawa and Jeff Rowley

The 2023 Japanese Economic Association Award for Young Female Researchers sponsored by the Nippon Life Insurance Company pp. 449-450

Mari Tanaka

How serious was it? The impact of preschool closure on mothers’ psychological distress: evidence from the first COVID-19 outbreak pp. 451-471

Izumi Yokoyama and Reo Takaku

Input price discrimination in endogenous competition mode: comment pp. 473-478

Qing Hu and Shuxiao Chen

Correction to: Overcoming problems of coordination and freeriding in a game with multiple public goods: dynamic contribution with information provision pp. 479-480

Ai Takeuchi and Erika Seki

Correction: The potential compensation principle and constant marginal utility of income pp. 481-481

Stephen Martin

Volume 75, issue 2, 2024

Do hybrid auctions always give “the best of both worlds” ? An illustration from asymmetric Anglo–Dutch auctions pp. 215-242

Daniel Marszalec

Economic effects of pension reform: applying the overlapping generations model to long-term nursing care pp. 243-268

Takehiro Ito and Kazumitsu Sako

Ambiguity and self-protection: evidence from social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 269-300

Daiki Kishishita, Hans H. Tung and Charlotte Wang

Groups versus individuals, partial lying, and social image concern in a dice-rolling experiment pp. 301-331

Yoshitaka Okano and Eiji Goto

Input price discrimination and incentives for raising rivals’ costs pp. 333-353

Chin-Sheng Chen

The adverse effect of competition on consumers under foreign competition pp. 355-379

Junlin Chen, Jingyi Huang, Yue Yu and Chenhang Zeng

Volume 75, issue 1, 2024

Factor decomposition of changes in the income tax base pp. 1-28

Taro Ohno, Junpei Sakamaki, Daizo Kojima and Tomotsugu Imahori

Comparing behavior between a large sample of smart students and Japanese adults pp. 29-67

Nobuyuki Hanaki, Keigo Inukai, Takehito Masuda and Yuta Shimodaira

Input price, bargaining power, and a multi-input-multi-product firm pp. 69-92

Pei-Cyuan Shih, Yan-Shu Lin and Yen-Ju Lin

Strategic delegation and tariff protection with network externalities pp. 93-119

Kangsik Choi and Ki-Dong Lee

The conflict between residents and tourists: on the variety-shifting effect of tourism growth pp. 121-145

Takaaki Takahashi

Tourism infrastructure and the environment: how does environmental regulation affect welfare, tourism industry, and domestic wage inequality? pp. 147-179

Takanori Shimizu and Hisayuki Okamoto

The effect of employer tenure on wages in Japan pp. 181-214

Ayaka Nakamura

Volume 74, issue 4, 2023

Preface to the Special Issue on “Statistical Decision Theory and Treatment Choice” pp. 445-446

Charles Manski

Statistical decision theory respecting stochastic dominance pp. 447-469

Charles Manski and Aleksey Tetenov

Inference on optimal treatment assignments pp. 471-500

Timothy B. Armstrong and Shu Shen

Minimax-regret treatment rules with many treatments pp. 501-537

Matthew Masten

Bandwidth selection for treatment choice with binary outcomes pp. 539-549

Takuya Ishihara

Applications of Choquet expected utility to hypothesis testing with incompleteness pp. 551-572

Hiroaki Kaido and Yi Zhang

Treatment choice, mean square regret and partial identification pp. 573-602

Toru Kitagawa, Sokbae (Simon) Lee and Chen Qiu

Volume 74, issue 3, 2023

What do contracts do to facilitate relationships? pp. 333-354

Hideshi Itoh

The 2022 Japanese Economic Association Nakahara prize recipient: Professor Satoru Takahashi, National University of Singapore pp. 355-356

Takashi Kamihigashi

Strict robustness to incomplete information pp. 357-376

Stephen Morris, Daisuke Oyama and Satoru Takahashi

The 2022 Japanese economic association award for young female researchers sponsored by the Nippon life insurance company pp. 377-378

Takako Fujiwara-Greve

Overcoming problems of coordination and freeriding in a game with multiple public goods: dynamic contribution with information provision pp. 379-411

Ai Takeuchi and Erika Seki

Ethical production and export performance across destinations: evidence from Myanmar pp. 413-437

Mari Tanaka

Adverse selection and bounded rationality: an impossibility theorem pp. 439-444

Takeshi Murooka and Takuro Yamashita

Volume 74, issue 2, 2023

Can e-commerce mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on international trade? pp. 215-232

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Hiroshi Mukunoki and Shujiro Urata

Social security reform and welfare in a two sector model pp. 233-249

Partha Sen

Strategic corporate social responsibility and partial privatization policy with foreign penetration pp. 251-278

Lili Xu, Fanrui Su and Sang-Ho Lee

Endogenous organizational form in a multiproduct mixed duopoly pp. 279-299

Kangsik Choi

Input Price Discrimination in Endogenous Competition Mode pp. 301-330

Kangsik Choi and Seonyoung Lim

Volume 74, issue 1, 2023

Impact of university reform on research performance aggregated and disaggregated across research fields: a case study of the partial privatization of Japanese national universities pp. 1-27

Yuta Kikuchi

An analysis of altruistic and selfish motivations underlying hometown tax donations in Japan pp. 29-55

Eiji Yamamura, Yoshiro Tsutsui and Fumio Ohtake

Inter-industry trade and heterogeneous firms: country size matters pp. 57-81

Hangtian Xu and Yiming Zhou

Pre-order strategies with demand uncertainty and consumer heterogeneity pp. 83-115

Junshan Lin and Chenhang Zeng

Attributes needed for Japan’s central bank digital currency pp. 117-175

Hiroshi Fujiki

Age-related changes in the effect of birth weight on child development: findings from a Japanese Longitudinal Survey pp. 177-197

Mao Nakayama and Midori Matsushima

Generalization of strategic delegation pp. 199-214

Kojun Hamada