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12042: Determinants of Essential Intellectual Property Rights for Wireless Communications Standards: Manufacturing firms vs. non-manufacturing patentees

Byeongwoo Kang and Kazuyuki Motohashi

12041: Equilibrium Distribution of Labor Productivity

Hideaki Aoyama, Hiroshi Iyetomi and Hiroshi Yoshikawa

12040: Scaling Laws in Labor Productivity

Yoshi Fujiwara, Hideaki Aoyama and Mauro Gallegati

12039: Rising Wage Inequality Within Firms: Evidence from Japanese health insurance society data

Yukiko Saito and Toshiaki Kouno

12038: Exposure to Low-wage Country Imports and the Growth of Japanese Manufacturing Plants

Anna Maria Mayda, Masato Nakane, Chad Steinberg and Hiroyuki Yamada

12037: Measurement of Intangible Investments by Industry and Its Role in Productivity Improvement Utilizing Comparative Studies between Japan and Korea

Hyunbae Chun, Kyoji Fukao, Shoichi Hisa and Tsutomu Miyagawa

12036: Open Innovation and Firm's Survival: An empirical investigation by using a linked dataset of patent and enterprise census

Kazuyuki Motohashi

12035: Analysis of Alternative Fuel Vehicles by Disaggregated Cost Benefit

Shunsuke Managi

12034: Does New Entry Drive Out Incumbents? Evidence from establishment-level data in Japan

Keiko Ito and Masatoshi Kato

12033: Productivity and FDI of Taiwan Firms: A review from a nonparametric approach

Ryuhei Wakasugi and Takashi Natsuhara

12032: Are the "ASEAN Plus Three" Countries Coming Closer to an OCA?

Kentaro Kawasaki

12031: Firms' Cash Holdings and Performance: Evidence from Japanese corporate finance

Naoki Shinada

12030: Aggregate and Firm-Level Volatility in the Japanese Economy

YoungGak Kim and Hyeog Ug Kwon

12029: Short-run Distributional Effects of VAT Rate Change: Evidence from a consumption tax rate increase in Japan

David Cashin and Takashi Unayama

12028: A New Approach to Measuring the Gap between Marginal Productivity and Wages of Workers

Naomi Kodama and Kazuhiko Odaki

12027: Networked FDI: Sales and sourcing patterns of Japanese foreign affiliates

Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo

12026: By a Silken Thread: Regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession

Mathias Hoffmann and Toshihiro Okubo

12025: A New Micro-Foundation for Keynesian Economics

Hiroshi Yoshikawa

12024: Intensive and Extensive Decisions of Firms with Spatial Dependency

Yukiko Ito

12023: Localization of Interfirm Transaction Relationships and Industry Agglomeration

Kentaro Nakajima, Yukiko Saito and Iichiro Uesugi

12022: The Effects of a Megabank Merger on Firm-Bank Relationships and Borrowing Costs

Taisuke Uchino and Iichiro Uesugi

12021: Transactions as a Source of Agglomeration Economies: Buyer-seller matching in the Japanese manufacturing industry

Kentaro Nakajima

12020: Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota and Jacques Mairesse

12019: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Exchange Rate Changes on the Japanese Electronics Industry

Willem Thorbecke

12018: Bank Efficiency and Client Firms' Export Behavior: Evidence from firm-bank match-level data

Tomohiko Inui, Daisuke Miyakawa and Keishi Shoji

12017: The Causal Effects of Exporting on Japanese Workers: A firm-level analysis

Ayumu Tanaka

12016: Determinants of Transport Costs for Inter-regional Trade

Yoko Konishi, Se-il Mun, Yoshihiko Nishiyama and Ji Eun Sung

12015: Effects of Privatization on Exporting Decisions: Firm-level evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises

Yasuyuki Todo, Tomohiko Inui and Yuan Yuan

12014: Strategic Foreign Direct Investment in Vertically Related Markets

Jota Ishikawa and Eiji Horiuchi

12013: The Determinants of Low Marital Fertility in Korea: A comparison with Japan

Kazuo Yamaguchi and Yoosik Youm

12012: The Global Financial Crisis and Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in Japan: How did they cope with the crisis?

Kazuo Ogawa and Takanori Tanaka

12011: Stock Options and Productivity: An empirical analysis of Japanese firms

Masayuki Morikawa

12010: Heterogeneous Multinational Firms and Productivity Gains from Falling FDI Barriers

Shawn Arita and Kiyoyasu Tanaka

12009: Postgraduate Education and Human Capital Productivity in Japan

Masayuki Morikawa

12008: The Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model: A diagrammatic analysis

Eric Bond, Kazumichi Iwasa and Kazuo Nishimura

12007: Are Chinese Imports Sensitive to Exchange Rate Changes?

Willem Thorbecke and Gordon Smith

12006: Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration Patterns: An application to manufacturing industries in Japan

Tomoya Mori and Tony E. Smith

12005: Increasing Returns in Transportation and the Formation of Hubs

Tomoya Mori

12004: Dissemination of Regenerative Medicine in Japan: Promoting commercialization under the regulatory system

Kenji Kurata and Youn-Hee Choi

12003: Investigating China's Disaggregated Processed Exports: Evidence that the RMB matters

Willem Thorbecke

12002: Market Size and Entrepreneurship

Yasuhiro Sato, Takatoshi Tabuchi and Kazuhiro Yamamoto

12001: Technology and Capital Adjustment Costs: Micro evidence of automobile electronics in the auto-parts suppliers

Ichihiro Uchida, Yosuke Takeda and Daichi Shirai

11080: Retirement Process in Japan: New evidence from Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement (JSTAR)

Hidehiko Ichimura and Satoshi Shimizutani

11079: Japan and Economic Integration in East Asia: Post-disaster scenario

Masahisa Fujita and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

11078: Employment Protection and Productivity: Evidence from firm-level panel data in Japan

Hiroko Okudaira, Miho Takizawa and Kotaro Tsuru

11077: What Does a Temporary Help Service Job Offer? Empirical suggestions from a Japanese survey

Hiroko Okudaira, Fumio Ohtake, Koichi Kume and Kotaro Tsuru

11076: How Important is Geographical Agglomeration to Factory Efficiency in Japan's Manufacturing Sector?

Kyoji Fukao, Victoria Kravtsova and Kentaro Nakajima

11075: Labor Market Gender Disparity and Corporate Performance in Japan

Jordan Siegel and Naomi Kodama

11074: Thünen and the New Economic Geography

Masahisa Fujita

11073: Bank Dependence and Financial Constraints on Investment: Evidence from the corporate bond market paralysis in Japan

Taisuke Uchino