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2022: The Effects of Gender-Specific Local Labor Demand on Birth and Later Outcomes

Mika Akesaka and Nobuyoshi Kikuchi

2022: The Role of Information in the Rice Exchange: YAMAGATA Bantō's Great Knowledge (1806)

Yasuo Takatsuki and Taro Hisamatsu

2022: Innovation to Keep or to Sell and Tax Incentives

Colin Davis and Laixun Zhao

2022: The Great Influenza Pandemic in Japan: Policy Responses and Socioeconomic Consequences

Masato Shizume

2022: Revisiting the Effects of Group Identity and Information Diversity in a Leader-member Public Goods Experiment

Yuning Tang, Qinxin Guo and Junyi Shen

2022: Do the Retired Elderly in Europe Decumulate Their Wealth? The Importance of Bequest Motives, Precautionary Saving, Public Pensions, and Homeownership

Charles Horioka and Luigi Ventura

2022: Firm's Static Behavior under Dynamic Demand

Takeshi Fukasawa

2022: Urbanization Effects on Job Search Decision

Yudai Higashi

2022: Risks on Others

Takaaki Hamada and Tomohiro Hara

2022: Endogenous Timing in Tax Competition: The Effect of Asymmetric Information

Takaaki Hamada

2022: Does Board Gender Diversity Actually Matter to Shareholder Value? Clarifying What Causes a Spurious Relationship in Japanese Listed Firms

Kimitaka Nishitani and Akira Kawaguchi

2022: The Biases in Applying Static Demand Models under Dynamic Demand

Takeshi Fukasawa

2022: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Labour Market Outcomes in the Long Run?

Anqi Zhang and Katsushi Imai

2022: Cyclical Activity and Inflation under Secular Stagnation: Empirical Evidence Using Data on Japan's Lost Decades

Masahiko Shibamoto

2022: The Impact of Multi-Factor Productivity on Income Inequality

Takashi Kamihigashi and Sasaki Sasaki

2022: Does a Universal Pension Reduce Elderly Poverty in China?

Anqi Zhang and Katsushi Imai

2022: The Effects of Capital Controls on Housing Prices

Yang Zhou

2022: Exclusive Contracts and Multihoming Agents in Two-sided Markets

Fuyuki Saruta

2022: Coordinated Strategic Manipulations and Mechanisms in School Choice

Ryo Shirakawa

2022: Are Farmers “Efficient but Poor”? The Impact of Crop Choices on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Nigeria

Chisom Ubabukoh and Katsushi Imai

2022: Efficient Market Theorists in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Earl of Lauderdale (1759–1839) and Yamagata Bantō (1748–1821)

Yasuo Takatsuki and Taro Hisamatsu

2022: A Long-term Contract with a Possibility of Dismissal for a Multitasking Agent

Meg Adachi-Sato

2022: Mitigating Gender Inequality in the Workplace: Toward Sustainable Development Through Institutional Changes

Kimitaka Nishitani and Akira Kawaguchi

2022: Effects of China's Capital Controls on Individual Asset Categories

Shigeto Kitano and Yang Zhou

2022: Machine Learning: New Tools for Economic Analysis

Katsuyuki Tanaka and Takashi Kamihigashi

2022: Professional Service Innovation in Digitalization

Masashi Goto

2022: Export Capacity Constraints and Distortions

Xiao Feng, Yongjin Wang and Laixun Zhao

2022: How Do Changes in Economic Conditions Affect Cognitive Function?

Yumi Ishikawa

2022: Central Bank Economic Confidence and the Macroeconomy

Masahiko Shibamoto, Kazuhiro Seki and Takashi Kamihigashi

2022: Two Types of Asset Bubbles in a Small Open Economy

Takashi Kamihigashi and Ryonghun Im

2022: The First Public Panel Data on Regional Inequality in Japan Based on the Family Income and Expenditure Survey

Yosuke Sasaki and Takashi Kamihigashi

2022: A Spatial Panel Data Analysis of Fertility Rates: Unraveling Two Myths

Yosuke Sasaki and Takashi Kamihigashi

2022: A Case Study of Professionals’ Institutional Work in Digitalisation

Masashi Goto

2022: Climate Changes and the Market Economy: The Case of Early Modern Japan

Masahiko Shibamoto and Yasuo Takatsuki

2022: Mobile Targeting: Exploring the Role of Area Familiarity, Store Knowledge, and Promotional Incentives

Ryo Kato, Takahiro Hoshino, Daisuke Moriwaki and Shintaro Okazaki

2022: Technological Competition among the Big Five in Patent Data: A Systematic and Scalable Approach Based on Web-Search Technology

Katsuyuki Tanaka and Takashi Kamihigashi

2022: Environmental Awareness and Green Business Practices in the Small Business Sector: Empirical Evidence Using a Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Survey in Japan

Masahiko Shibamoto

2022: Asia Digital Common Currency as a Global (International) Currency

Wataru Takahashi and Taiji Inui

2022: Is the Age Structure of the Population One of the Determinants of the Household Saving Rate in China? A Spatial Panel Analysis of Provincial Data

Jingwen Yin and Charles Horioka

2022: Emerging Market Expatriates in Japan during Covid-19 Pandemic

Yasmin Nur Nahar and Ralf Bebenroth

2022: Revisiting the Effect of Trustworthy Face and Attractive Appearance on Trust and Trustworthiness Behavior

Ziyun Suo, Qinxin Guo and Junyi Shen

2022: Adjustment of Expatriates' Work Practices during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Ralf Bebenroth

2022: Decline in Values of Degrees and Recent Evolution of Wage Inequality: Evidence from Chile

Yoshimichi Murakami and Tomokazu Nomura

2022: Estimating a Firm-Year Measure of Conditional Conservatism for Non-U.S. Firms: Evidence from Japan

Tomoaki Yamashita and Keishi Fujiyama

2022: Determinants of Health Insurance Enrollment and Health Expenditure in Ghana: An Empirical Analysis

Kwame Adjei-Mantey and Charles Horioka

2022: COVID-19 Infection Spread and Human Mobility

Masahiko Shibamoto, Shoka Hayaki and Yoshitaka Ogisu

2021: Greenfield or Brownfield? FDI Entry Mode and Intangible Capital

Haruka Takayama

2021: Elderly Poverty and Its Measurement

Yoko Niimi and Charles Horioka

2021: Globalized Business of Japanese Multinationals in Latin America: What Trade and Investment Statistics Do Not Show

Mikio Kuwayama

2021: Incorporating Piecewi se-linear Variables into an Empirical Model of Non-current Asset Impairment Timeliness

Keishi Fujiyama

2021: Financial Market Incompleteness and International Cooperation on Capital Controls

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2021: Contract Duration and Socially Responsible Investment

Ikutaro Enatsu and Hidemasa Yoneoka

2021: A Search and Bargaining Model of Non-degenerate Distributions of Money Holdings

Kazuya Kamiya and So Kubota

2021: The Bargaining Set and Coalition Formation

Ken-Ichi Shimomura

2021: Spatial Dependence in Regional Business Cycles: Evidence from Mexican States

Keisuke Kondo

2021: Contract Duration and Socially Responsible Investment

Meg Adachi-Sato

2021: Are Corporate Environmental Activities to Meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Simply Greenwashing? An Empirical Study of Vietnamese Companies from the Stakeholder Management Perspective

Kimitaka Nishitani, Thi Bich Hue Nguyen, Trong Quy Trinh, Qi Wu and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2021: Walrasian Dynamics with Endowment Changes: The Gale Example in a Laboratory Market Experiment

Emiko Fukuda, Shuhei Sato, Junyi Shen, Ken-Ichi Shimomura and Takehiko Yamato

2021: Do ICT Development and Technology Use Decrease the Demand for Business Travel?

Hristina Gaydarska and Miwa Matsuo

2021: Measuring a Normative Expectation: Methodological Decision-making in Intergenerational Social Dilemma Mediation

Yoichiro Tsuji and Junyi Shen

2021: Measuring Technological Competition among Big Five Using Patent Data: A Systematic and Scalable Approach Based on Information Retrieval Technology

Katsuyuki Tanaka and Takashi Kamihigashi

2021: Accepting the Future as Unforeseeable: Sensemaking by Professionals in the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Masashi Goto

2021: A Neglected Japanese Efficient Market Theorist: Yamagata Bantō (1748–1821) and His 1806 Writing

Yasuo Takatsuki and Taro Hisamatsu

2021: Severity of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India

Katsushi Imai, Nidhi Kaicker and Raghav Gaiha

2021: Japan's Monetary Policy: A Literature Review and Empirical Assessment

Masahiko Shibamoto, Wataru Takahashi and Takashi Kamihigashi

2021: On the Real Determinacy and Indeterminacy of Stationary Equilibria in Monetary Models

Kazuya Kamiya

2021: How Do World Commodity Prices Affect Asian Commodity Exporting Economies?: The Role of Financial Frictions

Shigeto Kitano

2021: Agglomeration Effects on Job Matching Efficiency: Evidence from Japan

Yudai Higashi

2021: Trends in the Number of Patent Applications and Changes in the Curriculum Guidelines in Japan

Kazuo Nishimura, Dai Miyamoto and Tadashi Yagi

2021: How Political Conflicts Distort Bilateral Trade: Firm-Level Evidence from China

Yuhua Li, Ze Jian, Wei Tian and Laixun Zhao