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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 Bejarano

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

16098: Testing for Agglomeration Economies and Firm Selection in Spatial Productivity Differences: The case of Japan

Keisuke Kondo

16097: To Stay or Leave? Migration decisions of foreign students in Japan

Yang Liu

16096: Subsidy Competition, Imperfect Labor Market, and Endogenous Entry of Firms

Tadashi Morita, Yukiko Sawada and Kazuhiro Yamamoto

16095: Daily Gravity

Kazutaka Takechi

16094: Pollution and City Size: Can Cities be Too Small?

Rainald Borck and Takatoshi Tabuchi

16093: Monopoly Rights and Economic Growth: An inverted U-shaped relation

Kenichi Ueda and Stijn Claessens

16092: Contribution of Patent Examination to Making the Patent Scope Consistent with the Invention: Evidence from Japan

Yoshimi Okada, Yusuke Naito and Sadao Nagaoka

16091: Demographics and Tax Competition in Political Economy

Tadashi Morita, Yasuhiro Sato and Kazuhiro Yamamoto

16090: Firm Expectations and Investment: Evidence from the China-Japan Island Dispute

Cheng Chen, Tatsuro Senga, Chang Sun and Hongyong Zhang

16089: Global Sourcing in the Wake of Disaster: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Lianming Zhu, Koji Ito and Eiichi Tomiura

16088: China's Electronics Exports, the Renminbi, and Exchange Rates in Supply Chain Countries

Willem Thorbecke

16087: Multinationals, Intrafirm Trade, and Employment Volatility

Yoshio Higuchi, Kozo Kiyota and Toshiyuki Matsuura

16086: The Effects of Diversity in Innovation: The moderating role of universal-diverse leaders

Satoko Suzuki and Kosuke Takemura

16085: Agglomeration Economies, Productivity, and Quality Upgrading

Hisamitsu Saito and Toshiyuki Matsuura

16084: Dynamics of Integration in East Asian Equity Markets

Tadaaki Komatsubara, Tatsuyoshi Okimoto and Ken-ichi Tatsumi

16083: Identifying and Decomposing Peer Effects on Participation Decisions Using a Randomized Controlled Trial

Daichi Shimamoto, Yasuyuki Todo, Yu Ri Kim and Petr Matous

16082: Endogenous Fluctuations and Social Welfare under Credit Constraints and Heterogeneous Beliefs

Maurizio Motolese and Hiroyuki Nakata

16081: What Happened to Wage Inequality in Japan during the Last 25 Years? Evidence from the FFL decomposition method

Izumi Yokoyama, Naomi Kodama and Yoshio Higuchi

16080: Global Value Chain and the Competitiveness of Asian Countries

Kozo Kiyota, Keita Oikawa and Katsuhiro Yoshioka

16079: An Asymmetric Melitz Model of Trade and Growth

Takumi Naito