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2018: The Expansion of Higher Education and Wage Inequality in Chile

Yoshimichi Murakami and Tomokazu Nomura

2018: The Pivotal Mechanism Versus the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism: An Experimental Comparison

Tatsuki Homma, Junyi Shen, Takuma Wakayama and Hirofumi Yamamura

2018: Revisiting the Impact of Impure Public Goods on Consumers' Prosocial Behavior: A Lab Experiment in Shanghai

Qinxin Guo, Enci Wang, Yongyou Nie and Junyi Shen

2018: The Effect of Voluntary IFRS Adoption on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Japan

Jong-Hoon Kim, Keishi Fujiyama and Yuya Koga

2018: Generalized Potentials, Value, and Core

Takaaki Abe and Satoshi Nakada

2018: An Axiomatic Foundation of the Multiplicative Human Development Index10:56 2018/08/0210:56 2018/08/02

Yoko Kawada, Yuta Nakamura and Shuhei Otani

2018: Globalization and Income Inequality in Latin America: A Review of Theoretical Developments and Recent Evidence

Yoshimichi Murakami

2018: Determinants of Rural-urban Inequality in Vietnam: Detailed Decomposition Analyses Based on Unconditional Quantile Regressions

Thanh Bui and Katsushi Imai

2018: How Can Regional Financial Institutions Promote Regional Revitalization in Japan?: Results of the 2017 Survey on Regional Finance

Nobuyoshi Yamori and Kei Tomimura

2018: Semiparametric Bayes Multiple Imputation for Regression Models with Missing Mixed Continuous-Discrete Covariates

Ryo Kato and Takahiro Hoshino

2018: Semiparametric Bayes Instrumental Variable Estimation with Many Weak Instruments

Ryo Kato and Takahiro Hoshino

2018: Cherry Picking versus Lemon Grabbing: Target Selection of Cross-Border and Domestic Acquisitions in Japan

Ralf Bebenroth and Pao-Lien Chen

2018: The Labour Productivity Gap between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors and Poverty in Asia

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Fabrizio Bresciani

2018: Asset Impairment Accounting Decisions and Employee Downsizing in Japan

Keishi Fujiyama

2018: Carpooling and Drivers without Household Vehicles: Gender Disparity in Automobility among Hispanics in the U.S

Miwa Matsuo

2018: Periodic Solutions of the One-sector Growth Model: The Role of Income Effects

Kazumichi Iwasa and Gerhard Sorger

2018: Contract Rigidity and Timeliness of Accounting Information

Kazunori Miwa, Yutaro Murakami, Atsushi Shiiba and Satoshi Taguchi

2018: Dynamics of Standard Setter's Translation: 'Goodwill' in Japanese GAAP

Saori Matsubara, Takahiro Endo and Keishi Fujiyama

2018: Do environmental disclosures and their credibility play a role in linking corporate environmental performance and shareholder value?

Kimitaka Nishitani, Mohammad Badrul Haider and Katsuhiko Kokubo

2018: Combinations of Different Length Contracts in a Multiperiod Model: Short, Medium and Long-term Contracts

Meg Adachi-Sato and Kazuya Kamiya

2018: Effects of Trade Liberalization on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidences from Panel Data of the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Manabu Furuta, Prabir Bhattacharya and Takahiro Sato

2018: The Effect of Anchoring on Dishonest Behavior

Hiromasa Takahashi and Junyi Shen

2018: Japan’s Credit Guarantee System Reform of 2017 and New Functions of Credit Guarantee Associations

Nobuyoshi Yamori

2018: Spatial Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: A Municipality Level Analysis

Anda David, Nathalie Guilbert, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Yudai Higashi, Hiroyuki Hino, Murray Leibbrandt and Muna Shifa

2018: Factors Affecting Participation in Health Checkups: Evidence from Japanese Survey Data

Riko Noguchi and Junyi Shen

2018: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Reduce Household Vulnerability in Rural Mexico?

Naoko Uchiyama

2017: Robust Comparative Statics for Non-monotone Shocks in Large Aggregative Games

Carmen Camacho, Takashi Kamihigashi and Çağrı Sağlam

2017: A Simple Optimality-Based No-Bubble Theorem for Deterministic Sequential Economies with Strictly Monotone Preferences

Takashi Kamihigashi

2017: Current Situation and Challenges of Human Resources Management of Financial Institutions: Based on the 2017 Attitude Survey of Young and Mid-Level Staff of Japanese Financial Institutions

Nobuyoshi Yamori and Koji Yoneda

2017: Countercyclical Endogenous Uncertainty Shocks, Efficiency Wages and Procyclical Precautionary Labor Productivity

Jean-Michel Grandmont

2017: Behavioral Heterogeneity: Pareto Distributions of Homothetic Preference Scales and Aggregate Expenditures Income Elasticities

Jean-Michel Grandmont

2017: Profit or Environment? A System Dynamic Model Analysis of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management System in China

Qinxin Guo, Enci Wang, Yongyou Nie and Junyi Shen

2017: New Hires’ Job Satisfaction Time Trajectory

Ralf Bebenroth and Jose O.L. Berengueres

2017: How Do Accounting and Legal Experts View the Role of Regional Financial Institutions in Supporting SMEs? -Based on a 2016 Questionnaire Study of Accounting and Legal Experts-

Nobuyoshi Yamori and Koji Yoneda

2017: Binary Collective Choice with Multiple Premises

Masaki Miyashita

2017: Roles of Agricultural Transformation in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals on Poverty, Hunger, Productivity, and Inequality

Katsushi Imai

2017: Organizational Refinements of Nash Equilibrium

Takashi Kamihigashi, Kerim Keskin and Çağrı Sağlam

2017: Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation: Rural Development is Still More Important than Urbanisation

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Alessandra Garbero

2017: Capital Controls, Monetary Policy, and Balance Sheets in a Small Open Economy

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2017: A Cross-Country Study on the Relationship between Financial Development and Earnings Management

Masahiro Enomoto, Fumihiko Kimura and Tomoyasu Yamaguchi

2017: Examining Japanese Women’s Preferences for a New Style of Postnatal Care Facility and Its Attributes

Junyi Shen, Takako Nakashima, Izumi Karasawa, Tatsuro Furui, Kenichiro Morishige and Tatsuyoshi Saijo

2017: Examining Shanghai Consumer Preferences for Electric Vehicles and Their Attributes

Yongyou Nie, Enci Wang, Qinxin Guo and Junyi Shen

2017: Strategic Management Forecasts and Accounting Choices: A Case of Employee Downsizing in Japan

Keishi Fujiyama and Makoto Kuroki

2017: A Pragmatic Method for Model-Selection Based on the Widely Applicable Bayesian Information Criterion

Hiroyuki Watanabe

2017: Measuring Social Change Using Text Data: A Simple Distributional Approach

Takashi Kamihigashi, Kazuhiro Seki and Masahiko Shibamoto

2017: Capital Controls as a Credit Policy Tool in a Small Open Economy

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2017: Do Agricultural Marketing Laws Matter for Rural Growth? Evidence from the Indian States

Purnima Purohit, Katsushi Imai and Kunal Sen

2017: Mind Your Language!: Role of Target Firm Language in Post-Merger Integration

Ashish Malik and Ralf Bebenroth

2017: Great East Japan Earthquake and Risk Management for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises ―How Do Japanese SMEs Prepare against Natural Disasters?－

Nobuyoshi Yamori and Yoshihiro Asai

2017: Capital Controls and Financial Frictions in a Small Open Economy

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2017: Identifying Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks

Kiyotaka Nakashima, Masahiko Shibamoto and Koji Takahashi

2017: Determinants of Wage Equalization in Chile from 1996 to 2006: Decomposition Approach

Yoshimichi Murakami and Tomokazu Nomura

2017: Hidden Costs of Carpooling in Family Life: Travel Behavior of Hispanic Families with Children in the US

Miwa Matsuo

2017: Dynamics of Factors to Influence Integrated Reporting Practice: Evidence from Japan and UK

Kimitaka Nishitani, Jeffrey Unerman and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2017: Inequalities and Patience in Catching up

Kazumichi Iwasa and Laixun Zhao

2017: The Role of Meta-organising in Legitimacy Recovery: The Case of Frozen Food Category in Japan

Takahiro Endo, Nidhi Srinivas and Yuki Tsuboyama

2017: Estimating Regional Returns to Education in India

Prabir Bhattacharya and Takahiro Sato

2017: Are IPOs “Overpriced?” Strategic Interactions between the Entrepreneur and the Underwriter

Kazunori Miwa, Satoshi Taguchi and Tatsushi Yamamoto

2017: Equilibrium Selection in Monetary Search Models: An Experimental Approach

Kazuya Kamiya, Hajime Kobayashi, Tatsuhiro Shichijo and Takashi Shimizu

2017: Some Unified Results for Classical and Monotone Markov Chain Theory

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2017: Legal Structure, Business Organisations and Lobbying: The JapanesePublishing Sector, 1990-2001

Takahiro Endo

2017: A Generalization of Fatou's Lemma for Extended Real-Valued Functions on σ-Finite Measure Spaces: With an Application to Infinite-Horizon Optimization in Discrete Time

Takashi Kamihigashi

2017: A Simple Model of the Chinese Hukou System and Some Ongoing Reforms

Laixun Zhao