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15108: Fresh Brain Power and Quality of Innovation in Cities: Evidence from the Japanese patent database

Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Keisuke Kondo

15107: The Role of the Precautionary and Polluter Pays Principles in Assessing Compensation

Tomoko Ishikawa

15106: Wage Premiums for Exporters and Multinational Enterprises: Evidence from Japanese linked employer-employee data

Ayumu Tanaka

15105: The Use of Science for Inventions and its Identification: Patent level evidence matched with survey

Sadao Nagaoka and Isamu Yamauchi

15104: Impacts of Japan's FTAs on Trade: The cases of FTAs with Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia

Mitsuyo Ando and Shujiro Urata

15103: Product Switching and the Business Cycle

Andrew Bernard and Toshihiro Okubo

15102: Female Labor Force Participation in Asia: Lessons from the Nordics

Yuko Kinoshita and Fang Guo

15101: Are There Trade-offs between the Existing and New Foreign Activities?

Yukiko Ito

15100: An Airline Merger and its Remedies: JAL-JAS of 2002

Naoshi Doi and Hiroshi Ohashi

15099: Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?

Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani and Takashi Oshio

15098: Asymmetric Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Japanese Exports: Application of the threshold vector autoregressive model

Thi-Ngoc Anh Nguyen and Kiyotaka Sato

15097: The Effectiveness of Pre-Disaster Planning and Post-Disaster Aid: Examining the impact on plants of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott, Toshihiro Okubo and Eric Strobl

15096: Cognitive Distances in Prior Art Search by the Triadic Patent Offices: Empirical evidence from international search reports

Tetsuo Wada

15095: Understanding the Health Effects of the Death of Spouses in Modern China: Evidence from the city of Qingdao

Keisuke Kawata, Meixin Wang and Ting Yin

15094: The Economic Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Joji Tokui, Kazuyasu Kawasaki and Tsutomu Miyagawa

15093: Population Density, Fertility, and Childcare Services from the Perspective of a Two-Region Overlapping Generations Model

Ryo Ishida, Kazumasa Oguro and Masaya Yasuoka

15092: State-owned Enterprise Reforms in the TPP Negotiation: Is it a win-win for Vietnam?

Thi Anh Nguyet Le

15091: Heterogeneous Impact of Real Estate Prices on Firm Investment

Makoto Hazama and Iichiro Uesugi

15090: Extensions of Rubin's Causal Model for a Latent-Class Treatment Variable: An analysis of the effects of employers' work-life balance policies on women's income attainment in Japan

Kazuo Yamaguchi

15089: Industry-level Factor Inputs and TFP and Regional Convergence: 1970-2008

Joji Tokui, Tatsuji Makino and Kyoji Fukao

15088: Performance-related Pay and Productivity: Evidence from Japan

Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama

15087: Can Firms with Political Connections Borrow More Than Those Without? Evidence from firm-level data for Indonesia

Jiangtao Fu, Daichi Shimamoto and Yasuyuki Todo

15086: Export Experience, Product Differentiation, and Firm Survival in Export Markets

Tomohiko Inui, Keiko Ito and Daisuke Miyakawa

15085: Endogenous Business Cycles Caused by Nonconvex Costs and Interactions

Yoshiyuki Arata

15084: Economic and Political Networks and Firm Openness: Evidence from Indonesia

Daichi Shimamoto and Yasuyuki Todo

15083: Trade-offs in Compensating Transfers for a Multiple-skill Model of Occupational Choice

Toshihiro Ichida

15082: Organizing for Change: Preference diversity, effort incentives, and separation of decision and execution

Hideshi Itoh

15081: Market Structure and Entry: Evidence from the intermediate goods market

Shuhei Nishitateno

15080: Choice of Invoice Currency in Global Production and Sales Networks: The case of Japanese overseas subsidiaries

Takatoshi Ito, Satoshi Koibuchi, Kiyotaka Sato and Junko Shimizu

15079: Effectively Opening Labor and Capital Markets: The interplay among foreign direct investment, trade, and immigration

Akinori Tomohara

15078: Does Ownership Really Matter? The role of foreign investors in corporate governance in Japan

Hideaki Miyajima, Takaaki Hoda and Ryo Ogawa

15077: Determinants of Industrial Coagglomeration and Establishment-level Productivity

Daisuke Fujii, Kentaro Nakajima and Yukiko Saito

15076: Pension Reform and Individual Retirement Accounts in Japan

Sagiri Kitao

15075: The Effects of Minimum Wages on Training

Hiromi Hara

15074: The Effects of Graduating from College during a Recession on Consumption and Asset Holding

Daiji Kawaguchi and Ayako Kondo

15073: Nonprofit/For-profit Facility and Difference of Wage Distribution: Evidence from the Japanese elderly care industry

Yutaka Ito, Keisuke Kawata and Ting Yin

15072: Use of Grace Periods and Their Impact on Knowledge Flow: Evidence from Japan

Sadao Nagaoka and Yoichiro Nishimura

15071: Monetary Incentives for Corporate Inventors: Intrinsic motivation, project selection and inventive performance

Koichiro Onishi, Hideo Owan and Sadao Nagaoka

15070: Application of the Concept of Entropy to Equilibrium in Macroeconomics

Hideaki Aoyama, Hiroshi Iyetomi, Wataru Souma and Hiroshi Yoshikawa

15069: The Well-Being of Elderly Survivors after Natural Disasters: Measuring the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Saki Sugano

15068: Does Retirement Change Lifestyle Habits?

Hiroyuki Motegi, Yoshinori Nishimura and Kazuyuki Terada

15067: Does Agglomeration Discourage Fertility? Evidence from the Japanese General Social Survey 2000-2010

Keisuke Kondo

15066: Impacts of FTAs and BITs on the Locational Choice of Foreign Direct Investment: The case of Japanese firms

Shujiro Urata

15065: How Institutional Arrangements in the National Innovation System Affect Industrial Competitiveness: A study of Japan and the United States with multiagent simulation

Seokbeom Kwon and Kazuyuki Motohashi

15064: Understanding Two Types of Technological Diversity and their Effects on the Technological Value of Outcomes from Bilateral Inter-firm R&D Alliances

Dong Huo and Kazuyuki Motohashi

15063: Consumer Valuations of Energy Efficiency Investments: The case of Vietnam's air conditioner market

Shigeru Matsumoto and Yukiko Omata

15062: The Prodigal Son: Does the younger brother always care for his parents in old age?

Mizuki Komura and Hikaru Ogawa

15061: Risk-taking and Firm Growth

Peng Xu

15060: Parallel Imports and Repair Services

Jota Ishikawa, Hodaka Morita and Hiroshi Mukunoki

15059: The Japan-U.S. Price Level Index for Industry Outputs

Koji Nomura and Kozo Miyagawa