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17041: Japanese Version of Concerted Cultivation Associated with Adaptation to Lower Secondary Education

Ryoji Matsuoka

17040: Information Constraint of the Patent Office and Examination Quality: Evidence from the effects of initiation lags

Sadao Nagaoka and Isamu Yamauchi

17039: Health-Related Income Gaps and the Effectiveness of Redistributive Policies in Japan

Meng ZHAO (Moe Konishi)

17038: Population Aging, Health Care, and Fiscal Policy Reform: The challenges for Japan

Minchung Hsu and Tomoaki Yamada

17037: A Larger Country Sets a Lower Optimal Tariff

Takumi Naito

17036: Exports and FDI Entry Decision: Evidence from Japanese foreign-affiliated firms

Ivan Deseatnicov and Konstantin Kucheryavyy

17035: On the Role of Skill, Quality, and Environmental Factors on Customer Behavior of the Beauty Industry

Yoko Konishi

17034: The Impact of the Opening of High-Speed Rail on Innovation

Hiroyasu Inoue, Kentaro Nakajima and Yukiko Saito

17033: Individual Characteristics, Behavioral Biases, and Attitudes toward Immigration: Evidence from a survey in Japan

Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito, Hiroshi Mukunoki and Ryuhei Wakasugi

17032: Consumer Demand for Fully Automated Driving Technology: Evidence from Japan

Kong Joo Shin and Shunsuke Managi

17031: Does Trade Liberalization Promote Antidumping Protection? A theoretical analysis

Hiroshi Mukunoki

17030: Impacts of an ICT-assisted Program on Attitudes and English Communicative Abilities: An experiment in a Japanese high school

Yuki Higuchi, Miyuki Sasaki and Makiko Nakamuro

17029: Wellbeing of the Elderly in East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan

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

17028: Product Network Connectivity and Information for Loan Pricing

Jiangtao Fu and Yoshiaki Ogura

17027: How Do Exporters Respond to Exogenous Shocks: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

Ayumu Tanaka, Banri Ito and Ryuhei Wakasugi

17026: Where is the Excess Capacity in the World Iron and Steel Industry? –A focus on East Asia and China–

Nozomu Kawabata

17025: Tariffs on Input Trade Margins under Vertical Oligopoly: Theory and evidence

Tomohiro Ara, Arpita Chatterjee, Arghya Ghosh and Hongyong Zhang

17024: Sustainable Transmission Planning in Imperfectly Competitive Electricity Industries: Balancing economic efficiency and environmental outcomes

Afzal S. Siddiqui, Makoto Tanaka and Yihsu Chen

17023: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Network Formation Behavior: An application to Vietnamese SMEs

Tadao Hoshino, Daichi Shimamoto and Yasuyuki Todo

17022: International Influences on Japanese Supply Chains

Michal Fabinger, Yoko Shibuya and Mina Taniguchi

17021: Factor Intensity Reversals Redux

Kozo Kiyota and Yoshinori Kurokawa

17020: Inefficiency in Rice Production and Land Use: A panel study of Japanese rice farmers

Kazuo Ogawa

17019: Effects of Main Bank Switch on Small Business Bankruptcy

Yuta Ogane

17018: Declining Japanese Yen and Inertia of the U.S. Dollar

Eiji Ogawa and Makoto Muto

17017: Firm Dynamics, Misallocation, and Targeted Policies

In Hwan Jo and Tatsuro Senga

17016: Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers

Yoichi Sugita, Kensuke Teshima and Enrique Seira

17015: A Functional Linear Regression Model in the Space of Probability Density Functions

Yoshiyuki Arata

17014: Natural Disasters: Financial preparedness of corporate Japan

Yasuyuki Sawada, Tatsujiro Masaki, Hiroyuki Nakata and Kunio Sekiguchi

17013: Evolution of Sizes and Industrial Structure of Cities in Japan from 1980 to 2010: Constant churning and persistent regularity

Tomoya Mori

17012: Multilevel Analysis of Free Trade Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment in the Asia Pacific Region

Masayuki Keida and Yosuke Takeda

17011: A Semantic Analysis of Monetary Shamanism: A case of the BOJ's Governor Haruhiko Kuroda

Masayuki Keida and Yosuke Takeda

17010: In many emerging economies corruption, poor quality of information and poor governance lead to restricted entry. In this paper we analyze the determinants of the.height.of entry barrier in a developing economy where established.rms often use dubious means to deter entry of other.rms. We analyse this scenario in a three-stage game of entry deterrence. The incumbent has incomplete information about the entrant.s costs but can increase this cost by resorting to unfair means (for example, bribing a politician who harms the entrant). Higher is the bribe, higher will be the entry cost and hence lower will be the incentive to enter. In our set-up bribe serves as a proxy for.height.of entry barrier. The entrant observes its cost and decides whether or not to enter. We completely characterise the optimal bribe and show that this depends on the market size, the.di¤erentiation.parameter (whether goods are substitutes or complement) and the extent of uncertainty. Uncertainty seems to increase bribe and decrease market quality. We also show that zero bribe need not maximise total surplus and market quality. Our results seem to be compatible with anecdotal evidences from an emerging economy like India

Krishnendu Dastidar and Makoto Yano

17009: Measuring the Effects of Commodity Price Shocks on Asian Economies

Tomoo Inoue and Tatsuyoshi Okimoto

17008: Commodity Spot, Forward, and Futures Prices with a Firm's Optimal Strategy

Katsushi Nakajima

17007: Exchange Rate and Utilization of Free Trade Agreements: Focus on rules of origin

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Han-Sung Kim and Taiyo Yoshimi

17006: Do Migrant and Business Networks Promote International Royalty Receipts?

Akinori Tomohara

17005: A Yen for Change: The strong yen and the Japanese automobile industry

Willem Thorbecke

17004: Are Smaller (Larger) Corporate Headquarters Better?

Hideaki Miyajima, Ryo Ogawa and Tatsuo Ushijima

17003: Heterogeneous Investor Behaviors and Market Volatility in the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Yosuke Kimura

17002: Choosing Between Multiple Preferential Tariff Schemes: Evidence from Japan's imports

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Shujiro Urata and Taiyo Yoshimi

17001: Early Agglomeration or Late Agglomeration? Two phases of development with spatial sorting

Rikard Forslid and Toshihiro Okubo

16901: Introduction to Spatial Econometric Analysis: Creating spatially lagged variables in Stata

Keisuke Kondo

16106: The Effects of Japanese Customer Firms' Overseas Outsourcing on Supplier Firms' Performance

Tomohiko Inui and Naomi Kodama

16105: Industrial Structure in Urban Accounting

Jun Oshiro and Yasuhiro Sato

16104: Understanding External Technology Sourcing in New Product Development Projects: Bilateral vs. unilateral contracts

Masayo Kani and Kazuyuki Motohashi

16103: Corporate Diversification, Employee Bargaining Power, and Wages

Tatsuo Ushijima

16102: Absorptive Capacity and External Technology Sourcing: Empirical investigation of vertical and horizontal relationships in the research and development process

Naoto Fujikawa and Kazuyuki Motohashi

16101: Good Boss, Bad Boss, Workers' Mental Health and Productivity: Evidence from Japan

Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto

16100: Will Abenomics Save Future Generations?

Manabu Shimasawa and Kazumasa Oguro

16099: Glass Ceilings or Sticky Floors? An analysis of the gender wage gap across the wage distribution in Japan

Hiromi Hara