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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

11063: Entry of Foreign Multinational Firms and Productivity Growth of Domestic Firms: The case of Japanese firms

Keiko Ito

11062: A Network Approach to the Economic Models of Fertility

Yoosik Youm

11061: Does Tobin's q Matter for Firms' Choices of Globalization Mode?

Naoto Jinji, Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna

11060: Urban Density, Human Capital, and Productivity: An empirical analysis using wage data

Masayuki Morikawa

11059: Multinationals in the Services and Manufacturing Sectors: A firm-level analysis using Japanese data

Ayumu Tanaka

11058: Population Density and Efficiency in Energy Consumption: An empirical analysis of service establishments

Masayuki Morikawa

11057: Markups, Productivity, and External Market Development: An empirical analysis using SME data in the service industry

Atsuyuki Kato and Naomi Kodama

11056: A Model of Multi-Dimensional Human Capital Investment: Specific vs. general investments under uncertainty

Toshihiro Ichida

11055: FDI in Emerging Economies: An analysis in a firm heterogeneity model

Koji Ito

11054: Export and Productivity Under Different Market Condition: Evidence from Japan

Naomitsu Yashiro and Daisuke Hirano

11053: Report on a Fact-Finding Survey of the Credit-Decision System and Loan Pricing in Small Business Financing in Japan

Tadanobu Nemoto, Yoshiaki Ogura and Wako Watanabe

11052: Technological Knowledge and Offshore Outsourcing: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

Banri Ito, Eiichi Tomiura and Ryuhei Wakasugi

11051: Gender Differences Among Elderly Japanese: Importance of family and social relations for life satisfaction

Takashi Oshio

11050: International Transmission of the 2008 Crisis: Evidence from the Japanese stock market

Kaoru Hosono, Miho Takizawa and Kotaro Tsuru

11049: Size Matters: Multi-plant operation and the separation of corporate headquarters

Toshihiro Okubo and Eiichi Tomiura

11048: Persistent Productivity Differences Between Firms

Katsuya Takii

11047: Evidence of a Growing Inequality in Work Timing Using a Japanese Time-Use Survey

Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto

11046: Culture and Diversity in Knowledge Creation

Marcus Berliant and Masahisa Fujita

11045: The Intertemporal Substitution and Income Effects of a VAT Rate Increase: Evidence from Japan

David Cashin and Takashi Unayama

11044: Stochastic Origin of Scaling Laws in Productivity and Employment Dispersion

Yoshi Fujiwara and Hideaki Aoyama

11043: Free-Riding-Proof International Environmental Agreements

Taiji Furusawa and Hideo Konishi

11042: An Economic Analysis of the Special Milk Classes Scheme of Canada and the Agricultural Subsidy

Kenzo Abe

11041: Life-Cycle Search, Match Quality and Japan's Labor Flow

Julen Esteban-Pretel and Junichi Fujimoto

11040: Japan's Labor Market Cyclicality and the Volatility Puzzle

Julen Esteban-Pretel, Ryo Nakajima and Ryuichi Tanaka

11039: Changes in Japan's Labor Market Flows due to the Lost Decade

Julen Esteban-Pretel, Ryo Nakajima and Ryuichi Tanaka

11038: Exploring the Sources of Firm-level Scale Economies in R&D: Complementary assets, internal and external knowledge inflows, and inventor team size

Sadao Nagaoka and Hideo Owan

11037: Measuring Human Capital in Japan

Kensuke Miyazawa