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203: On a Stackelberg leader's incentive to invite entry into horizontally differentiated oligopolies with network externalities: A reexamination

Ryoma Kitamura and Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

202: A factor analysis of business start-up rates in Japan: contemporary and historical context

Nobuo Kobayashi

201: Strategic Production Subsidy/Tax under Mutual Endogenous Entry of Foreign Firms

Keisaku Higashida and Hiroaki Ino

200: Trademarks as an indicator of regional innovation: Evidence from Japanese prefectures

Joern Block, Christian Fisch, Kenta Ikeuchi and Masatoshi Kato

199: Optimality of Emission Pricing Policies Based on Emission Intensity Targets under Imperfect Competition

Hiroaki Ino and Toshihiro Matsumura

198: Inequality and Institutional Quality in a Growth Model

Takuma Kunieda and Masashi Takahashi

197: Production Substitution of Goods Within and Between Firms in a Multiproduct Duopoly

Tetsuya Shinkai and Ryoma Kitamura

196: How Can a Central Bank Exit Quantitative Easing Without Rapidly Shrinking its Balance Sheet?

Atsushi Tanaka

195: Note on the Excess Entry Theorem in the Presence of Network Externalities

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

194: Fertility and Labor Share of Child Care Service

Masaya Shintani and Masaya Yasuoka

193: Elderly Labor and Precautionary Saving

Masaya Yasuoka

192: Patent Protection and Public Capital Accumulation

Ken Tabata

191: An inverted-U effect of patents on economic growth in an overlapping generations model

Yuta Nakabo and Ken Tabata

190: Trade Intermediaries, the Choice of Export Mode, and the “Learning-By-Exporting” Hypothesis

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

189: Burden of Inspection Costs and Effectiveness of Environmental Regulations

Keisaku Higashida

188: The Equivalence of Emission Tax with Tax-Revenue Refund and Emission Intensity Regulation

Hiroaki Ino and Toshihiro Matsumura

187: Fertility, Inequality and Income Growth

Masaya Shintani and Masaya Yasuoka

186: Hold-up Problems in Contracting Out Waste Collection Services

Hiroaki Ino, Norimichi Matsueda and Jun'ichi Miki

185: Growth paths and routes to exit: ‘Shadow of Death’ effects for new firms in Japan

Alex Coad and Masatoshi Kato

184: Nonparametric analysis of monotone choice

Natalia Lazzati, John Quah and Koji Shirai

183: International R&D Spillovers, Innovation by Learning from Abroad and Medium-Run Fluctuations

Toshihiro Okada

182: Fertility, Income Growth and Inflation

Masaya Yasuoka

181: Monetary Base Controllability after an Exit from Quantitative Easing

Atsushi Tanaka

180: Effects of Change in Local Content Requirement and Exchange Rate Volatility in an International Oligopoly

Tetsuya Shinkai, Takao Ohkawa and Makoto Okamura

179: Product Line Strategy within a Vertically Differentiated Duopoly under Non-negativity Outputs Constraints

Tetsuya Shinkai and Ryoma Kitamura

178-2: Higher Education Subsidy Policy and R&D-based Growth

Takaaki Morimoto and Ken Tabata

178: Higher Education Subsidy Policy and R&D-based Growth

Takaaki Morimoto and Ken Tabata

177: Bayesian factor models for probabilistic cause of death assessment with verbal autopsies

Tsuyoshi Kunihama, Zehang Richard Li, Samuel J. Clark and Tyler H. McCormick

176-2: Limited consideration and limited data: revealed preference tests and observable restrictions

Yuta Inoue and Koji Shirai

176: Limited consideration and limited data: revealed preference tests and observable restrictions

Yuta Inoue and Koji Shirai

175: Collective vs. Individual Lobbying

Norimichi Matsueda

174: The Effects of Entry under the Coexistence of Oligopolistic and Monopolistic Competition

Kenji Fujiwara

173: On the merger paradox and asymmetric product differentiation

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu and Tetsuya Nakajima

172: Population Aging, Labor Market Frictions, and PAYG Pension

Takaaki Morimoto, Yuta Nakabo and Ken Tabata

171: The Minimum Wage, Exports, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Indonesia

Bin Ni and Kyosuke Kurita

170: Trade, Productivity and Welfare when Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly Coexist

Kenji Fujiwara

169: Analysis of Merger Control in A Network Products Market

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

168: Elderly Care Service in an Aging Society

Masaya Yasuoka

167: Merger Paradox in a Network Product Market: A Horizontally Differentiated Three-Firm Model

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

166: The optimal choice of internal decision-making structures in a network industry

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

165: International Environmental Agreement and the Timing of Domestic Lobbying

Etienne Farvaque and Norimichi Matsueda

164: Strategic compatibility choice, network alliance, and welfare

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

163: Collusion and welfare in the case of a horizontally differentiated duopoly with network compatibility

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

162: Founders’ human capital and external knowledge sourcing: An absorptive capacity perspective for innovative start-ups

Masatoshi Kato

161: Effects of Individual Resident Tax on the Consumption of Near-Retired Households in Japan

Toshiyuki Uemura, Yoshimi Adachi and Tomoki Kitamura

160: The Lingering Effect of Capacity Coordination on Firm Behavior in Post-depression Periods: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Keisaku Higashida and Kenta Tanaka

159: Does patenting always help new-firm survival?

Masatoshi Kato, Koichiro Onishi and Yuji Honjo

158: Effect of Caregiving on Employment for Retiring Japanese Individuals

Tomoki Kitamura, Yoshimi Adachi and Toshiyuki Uemura

157: Asset Bubbles, Technology Choice, and Financial Crises

Takuma Kunieda, Tarishi Matsuoka and Akihisa Shibata

156: Asset Bubbles, Unemployment, and a Financial Crisis

Takuma Kunieda, Ken-ichi Hashimoto and Ryonghun Im