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2025: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Income Inequality: Evidence from New Instruments

Junsong Shi and Yoshimichi Murakami

2025: Poverty Traps Driven by Family Bargaining

Yotaro Ueno

2025: Policy for Closing Education Gaps across Gender and Culture: Tuition-Free Education or School Construction?

Kotaro Fujisaki

2025: Conformity and Leadership in Organizations

Shunsuke Matsuno

2025: Bequests

Charles Horioka

2025: Targeted Pricing and Vertical Structure

Ryo Masuyama

2025: Assistance-proofness

Ryoga Doi

2025: Minimum Wage Disparities and Internal Migration: Evidence From China

Qianqian Yang and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2025: Minimum Wage in China

Qianqian Yang and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2025: Should the Industrial Region Fear Hollowing Out by Raising the Minimum Wage?

Qianqian Yang and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2025: Revisiting Minimum Wage: From Labor Economics to Spatial Economics

Qianqian Yang and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2025: Hotter Days, Wider Gap: The Distributional Impact of Heat on Student Achievement

Mika Akesaka and Hitoshi Shigeoka

2025: Why Do Europeans Save? Micro-Evidence from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey

Charles Horioka and Luigi Ventura

2025: On the Impact of Long-term Care Insurance on the Behavior of Parents and Children: Theory and Evidence on Japan

Charles Horioka, Emin Gahramanov and Xueli Tang

2025: Technology and Professional Associations

Masashi Goto

2025: The Determinants of the Growth of Japanese Start-ups: A Resource-based View Analysis

Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Joao Carlos Ferraz

2025: Trade Liberalization, Wage, and Unemployment: Theory and Evidence from Chile

Sayaka Takada and Yoshimichi Murakami

2025: Testing for Spatial Autocorrelation in Stata

Keisuke Kondo

2025: Identification of Relationship Lending in Bank-Borrower Networks

Yoshitaka Ogisu, Shoka Hayaki and Masahiko Shibamoto

2025: Power of Values-based Investors on ESG Actions of Value-orientated Managers

Meg Adachi-Sato

2024: Effects of Capital Flow Management Measures on Wealth Inequality: New Evidence from Counterfactual Estimators

Yang Zhou and Shigeto Kitano

2024: The Concomitance of Prosociality and Social Networking Agency

Danyang Jia, Ivan Romic, Lei Shi, Qi Su, Chen Liu, Jinzhuo Liu, Petter Holme, Xuelong Li and Zhen Wang

2024: Altruistic Care for the Elderly in Thailand: Does the Social Gender Norm on Altruistic Behavior Matter?

Minh Tam Bui, Ivo Vlaev and Katsushi Imai

2024: Household Saving in Japan: The Past, Present, and Future

Charles Horioka

2024: Maintaining Private and Public Facilities: Theory and Experiment

Mayuko Nakamaru, Takaaki Ohkawauchi, Rei Okawa, Koki Oikawa, Yuto Otani, Hiroo Sasaki, Junyi Shen, Koichi Takase, Hirofumi Yamamura and Takehiko Yamato

2024: Sustainable Investing Under Delegated Investment Management

Meg Adachi-Sato and Hiroshi Osano

2024: Is It Possible to Detect the Insolvency of a Company?

Katsuyuki Tanaka, Takuo Higashide, Takuji Kinkyo and Shigeyuki Hamori

2024: Empirical Validation of the Attraction Effect Using Randomized Field Experiments: Real-World Evidence of Contextual Decision-Making Bias

Ryo Kato, Taiga Hashimoto and Takahiro Hoshino

2024: Quantitative Convergence Rates for Stochastically Monotone Markov Chains

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2024: Insatiable Wealth Preference: Evidence from Japanese Household Survey

Mika Akesaka, Ryo Mikami and Yoshiyasu Ono

2024: The Impact of Intergenerational Transfers on the Distribution of Wealth: An International Comparison

Charles Horioka

2024: Did COVID-19 Deteriorate Mismatch in the Japanese Labor Market?

Yudai Higashi and Masaru Sasaki

2024: Industry Dynamics with Cartels: The Case of the Container Shipping Industry

Suguru Otani

2024: Can Sustainable Consumption and Production Solve the Dilemma of Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Economic Performance? An Empirical Analysis of Japanese-listed Companies from the Stakeholder Management Perspective

Tingting Yin and Kimitaka Nishitani

2024: Delegating Decisions to Independent Committees

Narumi Teshima

2024: Above the Clouds: Unveiling Insights Through Semi-Structured Interviews with Airline Employees Surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

Hansha Kistamah and Miwa Matsuo

2024: Instrumented Difference-in-Differences with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Sho Miyaji

2024: Strategic Export Decisions in International Trade

Kazuhiro Takauchi, Tomomichi Mizuno and Katsufumi Fukuda

2024: Nonparametric Regression under Cluster Sampling

Yuya Shimizu

2024: Preference for Childbirth Support Measures: Results of a Stated-choice Experiment in Japan

Junyi Shen and Ken-Ichi Shimomura

2024: Optimal Income Taxation and Formalization of the Informal Economy

Hirofumi Takikawa

2024: Preferences for Policies from the Perspectives of Different Generations: Evidence from a Stated Choice Experiment in Japan

Yoichiro Tsuji and Junyi Shen

2024: Distinguishing the Urban Wage Premium from Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Mexico

Keisuke Kondo

2024: Capital Controls or Macroprudential Policies: Which is Better for Land Booms and Busts?

Yang Zhou and Shigeto Kitano

2024: Measuring the Attractiveness of Trip Destinations: A Study of the Kansai Region of Japan

Keisuke Kondo

2024: Informality and Dynamism of Microbusinesses in Africa: Possible Causalities

Hiroyuki Hino, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Charles Piot and Jiahan Yin

2024: Multi-Dimensional Informality and Dynamism of Microenterprises in Africa

Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hino, Charles Piot and Jiahan Yin

2024: Rethinking the Informal Economy in Africa: Findings of a Survey of Microbusinesses in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria

Hiroyuki Hino, Charles Piot, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Lilly Brouwer and Jiahan Yin

2024: Measuring Trend Inflation Using Financial Condition: The Case of Japan

Masahiko Shibamoto

2024: How Do Relative Concerns Affect Mental Health among Elderly Japanese?

Yumi Ishikawa

2024: Foreign Affiliates' Position in Global Value Chains and Local Sourcing in Chile: Evidence from Plant-Level Panel Data

Yoshimichi Murakami

2024: Tradition and Craft Organising: A Review of the Context of Japanese Sake Master Brewer

Masashi Goto

2024: Are there any Long-lasting Human-Capital Effects from Exposure to the United States' Herbicide Bombings over Generations? Evidence from the Vietnam War

Thanh P. Bui and Katsushi Imai

2024: The Impact of Individual Loss Aversion on Market Risk-Return Trade-off: A Non-linear Approach

Shoka Hayaki

2024: Reality Hits Early Warning System: Based on Unsupervised Isolation Forest Anomaly Detection

Katsuyuki Tanaka, Takuo Higashide, Takuji Kinkyo and Shigeyuki Hamori

2024: The Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle or Paradox after 44 Years: A Fallacy of Composition

Charles Horioka

2024: Backgrounds and Effectiveness of Remote Work during the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

Ikutaro Enatsu

2024: Does the Restriction Policy of High-skill Immigrants Benefit Native Workers?

Takuma Sugiyama