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26044: Voter Switching and Policy Preferences: Evidence from Japan's 2025-2026 elections

Eiji Yamamura and Yasuyuki Todo

26043: Picking Winners or Making Them? Evidence from the J-Startup program

Masatoshi Kato and Kenta Ikeuchi

26042: Aging and Manufacturing

Shuichiro Nishioka, Toshihiro Okubo and Mari Tanaka

26041: Compete or Retreat? Evidence from aid competition between China and Western donor countries

Shuhei Nishitateno and Yasuyuki Todo

26040: A Comparative Analysis on Turnaround Alternative Dispute Resolution and Civil Rehabilitation

Peng Xu

26039: Credit Allocation for SMEs in an Aging Economy: Evidence from the COVID-19 and Global Financial Crises in Japan

Daisuke Tsuruta

26038: How is Policy Normalization by the Bank of Japan Affecting the Link between Monetary Policy and Stock Prices

Willem Thorbecke

26037: The Real Estate Channel of Unconventional Monetary Policy

Tomohito Honda, Chihiro Shimizu and Iichiro Uesugi

26036: EU’s Export Embargoes on Russia: Have they been effective?

Tadashi Ito

26035: Firm Heterogeneity in Responses to Trump Tariffs 2.0: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing firms

Banri Ito, Naoto Jinji and Megumi Naoi

26034: Can Capping Overtime Improve Worker Welfare? Evidence from Japan’s 2019 Labor Reform

Daiji Kawaguchi and Kazuha Ogawa

26033: Conformism and Innovation: Evidence from R&D and patents

Toshihiro Okubo, Alexander F. Wagner and Kazuo Yamada

26032: The Impact of Global Sanctions on Foreign Direct Investment: A staggered difference-in-differences approach

Naoto Jinji and Shigenobu Kawaguchi

26031: Daycare Matching with Siblings: Social implementation and welfare evaluation

Kan Kuno, Daisuke Moriwaki and Yoshihiro Takenami

26030: Recovery and Transition of the Japanese Economy after World War II: Productivity implications of policy regime changes on the coal mining industry

Tetsuji Okazaki

26029: Economic Impact of RCEP

Ken Itakura, Yutaro Kimata and Shujiro Urata

26028: Too Close to Use: Social visibility, stigma, and the paradox of learning support programs

Shinsuke Asakawa, Mayuko Abe, Fumio Ohtake, Shinpei Sano and Kazuko Nakata

26027: Inter-firm Network Dynamics of Production during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yukiko Saito, Xinyi Tong and Kongphop Wongkaew

26026: Long-term Absenteeism: Effects of cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, household structure and financial situation

Shinsuke Asakawa, Mayuko Abe, Fumio Ohtake, Shinpei Sano and Kazuko Nakata

26025: Role of Japanese Firms in the East Asian Electronics Industry: A supply chain network perspective

Hiroshi Iyetomi, Yuta Arai and Yuichi Ikeda

26024: Oil Laundering: How did Russian oil circumvent the European Union’s embargo?

Tadashi Ito and Kiyoyasu Tanaka

26023: Nudging Automatic Debit for Property Tax: Evidence from two natural field experiments

Masaya Nishihata, Yohei Kobayashi and Takayuki Ishikawa

26022: Exiting Unawareness of Kohsetsushi among SMEs in Japan

Nobuya Fukugawa

26021: Design Right Commercialization by Public Technology Transfer Organizations: Disseminating design knowledge in regional innovation systems

Nobuya Fukugawa

26020: Impact of Inbound Tourism on Regional Economic Development: Evidence from Japanese commuting zone-level data

Toshiyuki Matsuura, Masahiro Endoh and Hisamitsu Saito

26019: Structural Estimation at the Product Level: The impact of the Kobe Earthquake

Masashige Hamano, Kongphop Wongkaew, Yuki Murakami and Toshihiro Okubo

26018: International Engagement and the Greenness of Manufacturing Firms

Robert Elliott, Wenjing Kuai, Toshihiro Okubo and Ceren Ozgen

26017: The Impact of Policy Uncertainty on Inward Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Japan’s international investment agreements

Mitsuo Inada and Naoto Jinji

26016: How Geopolitics Shapes Policy Preferences of Firms: Experimental evidence from Japan

Megumi Naoi, Banri Ito and Naoto Jinji

26015: Reconsidering the AMU ― What is the optimal basket currency for Asia? ―

Kentaro Kawasaki and Junko Shimizu

26014: Marriage, Fertility, and Female Labor Force Participation in an Aging Economy

Toama Boke Aime Arnauld, Junichi Fujimoto and Minchung Hsu

26013: AI Data Centers and Electricity Demand: Taming the energy guzzlers

Willem Thorbecke

26012: Balassa-Samuelson in the Long Run: Qualitative Success, Quantitative Limits

Shinnosuke Kikuchi

26011: Bond-stock Price Comovements: Evidence from the 1960s to the 1990s

Willem Thorbecke

26010: Is Speedy Start-up Always Better? The role of entrepreneurs’ prior experience

Masatoshi Kato

26009: Productivity Premium of Firms Engaged in Offshoring and Service Trade with China: Evidence from a survey of Japanese firms

Eiichi Tomiura and Hiroyuki Kuwahata

26008: U-shaped Association between Education and Fertility among Married Women: Evidence from Japan

Yang Liu

26007: Sources of Productivity Growth by Firm Size and Causes of the Negative Exit Effect

Kyoji Fukao, YoungGak Kim and Hyeog Ug Kwon

26006: Do Family Firm Sellers Consider Stewardship in M&A Decisions?

Yuichiro Kubo, Tomohito Honda and Hirofumi Uchida

26005: Does Finance Promote New Firm Creation and Growth? Evidence from regional data in Japan

Yuji Honjo, Arito Ono and Daisuke Tsuruta

26004: Inflation Expectations in Japan: Forecast revision and forecast trends

Weiyang Zhai and Yushi Yoshida

26003: Affirmative Action, Competitive Intensity, and Effort: Evidence from Japanese speedboat racing

Liya Wang, Ritsu Kitagawa and Takuya Takahashi

26002: Immigration and Human Capital Adjustments: Evidence from the 1990 Reform of Japan’s Immigration Act

Akira Sasahara and Jongkwan Lee

26001: When the Last Big Arrow Was Loosed: How the One-Child Policy relaxations reshaped fertility trends in China

Anqi Li, Shiko Maruyama and Yangyang Zhang

25129: Offshoring Bias in Productivity Estimates: Evidence from Japanese customs data

Kyoji Fukao, Tetsushi Horie, Tomohiko Inui, Takafumi Kawakubo, Young Gak Kim, Hyeog Ug Kwon and Hongyong Zhang

25128: Healthcare Utilization in the Face of Illness and Costs: Evidence from Japan

Akshar Saxena, Ting Yin, Mingxuan Fan and Wenjie Wang

25127: R&D Spillovers through Buyer-supplier Networks

Matěj Bajgar, Keiko Ito and Jonathan Timmis

25126: The Burden of Excellence: Endogenous efficiency paradoxes under coopetition

Keisuke Hattori and Takeshi Yoshikawa

25125: The Productivity Effects of Cross-border Data Flows: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

Banri Ito and Eiichi Tomiura

25124: Does R&D for Environmental Improvements Increase Firm Value? Evidence from Japanese manufacturing firm level data

Kazuma Edamura and Tsutomu Miyagawa