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08028: Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data

Banri Ito, Ryuhei Wakasugi and Eiichi Tomiura

08027: What Do Japanese Unions Do for Productivity?: An Empirical Analysis Using Firm-Level Data

Masayuki Morikawa

08026: Productivity and Survival of Family Firms in Japan: An Analysis Using Firm-Level Microdata

Masayuki Morikawa

08025: Is Aid Allocation Consistent with Global Poverty Reduction?: A Cross-Donor Comparison

Yasuyuki Sawada, Hiroyuki Yamada and Takashi Kurosaki

08024: Impacts of Aid-Funded Technical Assistance Programs: Firm-Level Evidence from the Indonesian Foundry Industry

Yasuyuki Todo

08023: Economies of Density and Productivity in Service Industries: An Analysis of Personal-Service Industries Based on Establishment-Level Data

Masayuki Morikawa

08022: International Strategic Alliances for Local Market Entry: Direct Launches versus Marketing Alliances in Pharmaceuticals

Kazutaka Takechi

08021: Industrial Development, Firm Dynamics and Patterns of Productivity Growth: The Case of the Cotton-spinning Industry in Prewar Japan, 1894-1924

Tetsuji Okazaki

08020: Stable Wage Distribution in Japan, 1982-2002: A Counter Example for SBTC?

Daiji Kawaguchi and Yuko Mori

08019: Monetization of Public Goods Provision: A possible solution for the free-rider problem

Keiichiro Kobayashi and Tomoyuki Nakajima

08018: Nominal Rigidities, News-Driven Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy

Keiichiro Kobayashi and Kengo Nutahara

08017: Embodied Technological Progress and the Productivity Slowdown in Japan

Joji Tokui, Tomohiko Inui and YoungGak Kim

08016: The Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Fragmentation in East Asia: Evidence from the Electronics Industry

Willem Thorbecke

08015: On Equivalence Results in Business Cycle Accounting

Kengo Nutahara and Masaru Inaba

08014: The evolution of the productivity dispersion of firms - A reevaluation of its determinants in the case of Japan

Keiko Ito and Sebastien Lechevalier

08013: Does Trade Liberalization Reduce Pollution Emissions?

Shunsuke Managi, Akira Hibiki and Tetsuya Tsurumi

08012: Do Competitive Markets Stimulate Innovation?: An Empirical Analysis Based on Japanese Manufacturing Industry Data

Tomohiko Inui, Atsushi Kawakami and Tsutomu Miyagawa

08011: Impact of the Debt Ratio on Firm Investment: A case study of listed companies in China

Yuan Yuan and Kazuyuki Motohashi

08010: Widening Deviation among East Asian Currencies

Eiji Ogawa and Taiyo Yoshimi

08009: Offshoring and Trade in East Asia: Statistical Evidence

Ryuhei Wakasugi, Banri Ito and Eiichi Tomiura

08008: IT Management of Chinese Firms: Quantitative Analysis by Using Survey Data

Xiaoyang Feng and Kazuyuki Motohashi

08007: Comparative Analysis of IT Management and Productivity between Japanese and U.S. Firms

Kazuyuki Motohashi

08006: The Adoption of Poison Pills and Managerial Entrenchment: Evidence from Japan

Yasuhiro Arikawa and Yosuke Mitsusada

08005: Regional Electric Power Demand in Japan

Nobuhiro Hosoe and Shu-ichi Akiyama

08004: Emissions Standard System: A monetary regime for provision of global public goods

Keiichiro Kobayashi

08003: Banking Crisis and Borrower Productivity

Keiichiro Kobayashi and Noriyuki Yanagawa

08002: On the Use of FTAs by Japanese Firms

Katsuhide Takahashi and Shujiro Urata

08001: Moore's Law, Increasing Complexity, and the Limits of Organization: The Modern Significance of Japanese Chipmakers' DRAM Business

Hiroyuki Chuma and Norikazu Hashimoto

07064: Foreign Direct Investment, Intra-Regional Trade and Production Sharing in East Asia

Nathalie Aminian, K.C. Fung and Hitomi Iizaka

07063: International Production/Distribution Networks and Domestic Operations in terms of Employment and Corporate Organization: Microdata Analysis of Japanese Firms

Mitsuyo Ando and Fukunari Kimura

07062: Collateralized capital and News-driven cycles

Keiichiro Kobayashi and Kengo Nutahara

07061: Business Cycle Accounting for the Japanese Economy Using the Parameterized Expectations Algorithm

Masaru Inaba

07060: Dissecting Offshore Outsourcing and R&D: A Survey of Japanese Manufacturing Firms

Banri Ito, Eiichi Tomiura and Ryuhei Wakasugi

07059: Consolidation of Banks in Japan: Causes and Consequences

Kaoru Hosono, Koji Sakai and Kotaro Tsuru

07058: How Do Relationship Lenders Price Loans to Small Firms?: "Hold-Up" Costs, Transparency, and Private and Public Security

Wako Watanabe

07057: Non-Self-Averaging in Macroeconomic Models: A Criticism of Modern Micro-founded Macroeconomics

Masanao Aoki and Hiroshi Yoshikawa

07056: The Comparative Features and Economic Role of Mergers and Acquisitions in Japan

Hideaki Miyajima

07055: Product Cycle and Industrial Hollowing-out: The Case of the Electrical and Electronics Sector of Taiwan

Tzu-Han Yang and Yueh-Po Liao

07054: Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Markets: Mergers and Acquisitions in Japan, Germany, France, the UK and USA

Gregory Jackson and Hideaki Miyajima

07053: Assessing the Economic Impacts of Free Trade Agreements: A Computable Equilibrium Model Approach

Kazutomo Abe

07052: The Impacts of Free Trade Agreements on Trade Flows: An Application of the Gravity Model Approach

Shujiro Urata and Misa Okabe

07051: Foreign Aid and Recurrent Cost: Donor Competition, Aid Proliferation and Budget Support

Yutaka Arimoto and Hisaki Kono

07050: The Millennium Development Goals and Aid Allocation: Which donors give high-quality aid?

Hidefumi Kasuga

07049: Choice for FDI and Post-FDI Productivity

Yukiko Ito

07048: Intertemporal Distribution of Foreign Aid

Koichi Takase

07047: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese, U.S., and Korean Firms on IT and Management

Kazuyuki Motohashi

07046: Productivity in Japan, the US, and the Major EU Economies: Is Japan Falling Behind?

Kyoji Fukao and Tsutomu Miyagawa

07045: On the Role of Technical Cooperation in International Technology Transfers

Yasuyuki Sawada, Ayako Matsuda and Hidemi Kimura

07044: Aid Proliferation and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis

Hidemi Kimura, Yasuyuki Sawada and Yuko Mori

07043: Credit Contagion and Trade Credit Supply: Evidence from Small Business Data in Japan

Daisuke Tsuruta