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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

11072: How Much Do R&D Tax Credits Affect R&D Expenditures? Japanese tax credit reform in 2003

Hiroyuki Kasahara, Katsumi Shimotsu and Michio Suzuki

11071: Multinational Corporations, FDI and the East Asian Economic Integration

Tzu-Han Yang and Deng-Shing Huang

11070: Differentiated Use of Small Business Credit Scoring by Relationship Lenders and Transactional Lenders: Evidence from firm-bank matched data in Japan

Ryo Hasumi, Hideaki Hirata and Arito Ono

11069: The Overseas Subsidiary Activities and Their Impact on the Performance of Japanese Parent Firms

Kazuma Edamura, Laura Hering, Tomohiko Inui and Sandra Poncet

11068: Do More Productive Firms Locate New Factories in More Productive Locations? An empirical analysis based on panel data from Japan's Census of Manufactures

Kyoji Fukao, Kenta Ikeuchi, YoungGak Kim and Hyeog Ug Kwon

11067: An Estimation of the Inside Bank Premium

Tadanobu Nemoto, Yoshiaki Ogura and Wako Watanabe

11066: Effect of R&D Tax Credits for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Japan: Evidence from firm-level data

Yohei Kobayashi

11065: Effect of Pension Reform on Pension-Benefit Expectations and Savings Decisions in Japan

Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui

11064: Revisiting Productivity Differences and Firm Turnover: Evidence from product-based TFP measures in the Japanese manufacturing industries

Atsushi Kawakami, Tsutomu Miyagawa and Miho Takizawa