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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

2016: A Multiple-Try Extension of the Particle Marginal Metropolis-Hastings (PMMH) Algorithm with an Independent Proposal

Takashi Kamihigashi and Hiroyuki Watanabe

2016: The Role of Local Accounting Standard Setters in Institutional Complexity: 'Explosion' of Local Standards in Japan

Saori Matsubara and Takahiro Endo

2016: Estimation of Vulnerability to Poverty Using a Multilevel Longitudinal Model: Evidence from the Philippines

Christian Mina and Katsushi Imai

2016: Rates of time preference and the current account in a dynamic model of perpetual youth -Should "global imbalances" always be balanced?-

Koichi Hamada and Masaya Sakuragawa

2016: Discontinuities in Earnings and Earnings Change Distributions after J-SOX Implementation: Empirical evidence from Japan

Masahiro Enomoto and Tomoyasu Yamaguchi

2016: Job Satisfaction of Returnees to Japan

Lara Makowski and Ralf Bebenroth

2016: Beyond Taxation: Discourse around Energy Policy in Japan

Takahiro Endo, Yuki Tsuboyama and Yoritoshi Hara

2016: Asia's Rural-urban Disparity in the Context of Growing Inequality

Katsushi Imai and Bilal Malaeb

2016: Remittances, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia - A Critical Review of the Literature and the New Evidence from Cross-country Panel Data

Katsushi Imai, Bilal Malaeb and Fabrizio Bresciani

2016: Dynamic and Long-term Linkages among Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries

Katsushi Imai, Wenya Cheng and Raghav Gaiha

2016: Fast Bellman Iteration: An Application of Legendre-Fenchel Duality to Deterministic Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time

Ronaldo Carpio and Takashi Kamihigashi

2016: 41 Counterexamples to Property (B) of the Discrete Time Bomber Problem

Takashi Kamihigashi

2016: A Simple Optimality-Based No-Bubble Theorem for Deterministic Sequential Economies

Takashi Kamihigashi

2016: Regime-Switching Sunspot Equilibria in a One-Sector Growth Model with Aggregate Decreasing Returns and Small Externalities

Takashi Kamihigashi

2016: How Did the Introduction of Deposit Insurance Affect Chinese Banks? An Investigation of Its Wealth Effect

Jianjun Sun and Nobuyoshi Yamori

2016: Infinite-Horizon Deterministic Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time: A Monotone Convergence Principle and a Penalty Method

Takashi Kamihigashi and Masayuki Yao

2016: Revisiting Marshallian versus Walrasian Stability in an Experimental Market

Junyi Shen, Ken-Ichi Shimomura, Takehiko Yamato, Tokinao Ohtaka and Kiyotaka Takahashi

2016: Disciplinary Pressure is More Necessary for Cooperative Banks Than Stock Banks: Results from Bank Efficiencies Estimation

Kozo Harimaya, Kei Tomimura and Nobuyoshi Yamori

2016: Empirical Assessment of the Impact of Monetary Policy Communication on the Financial Market

Masahiko Shibamoto

2016: The Impact of Japanese Regulatory Changes on Accrual-Based and Real Earnings Management

Masahiro Enomoto and Tomoyasu Yamaguchi

2016: Does Agricultural Growth Reduce Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries?

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Wenya Cheng

2016: Welfare Effects of Endogenous Information Acquisition and Disclosure in Duopoly Markets

Kazunori Miwa

2016: A Simple No-Bubble Theorem for Deterministic Sequential Economies

Takashi Kamihigashi

2016: Endogenous Procyclicality of Labor Productivity, Employment, Real Wages and Effort in Conditionally Heteroskedastic Sunspots Unemployment Business Cycles with Negishi-Solow Efficiency Wages

Jean-Michel Grandmont

2016: Does Physical Exercise Affect Tradeoffs between Fixed Pay and Performance-related Pay for Individuals?

Weiyi Zhang, Hiromasa Takahashi and Junyi Shen

2016: An Empirical Analysis on the Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in China

Ping Gao and Junyi Shen

2016: Gender-specific Reference-dependent Preferences in an Experimental Trust Game

Hiromasa Takahashi, Junyi Shen and Kazuhito Ogawa

2016: Understanding Regional Growth Dynamics in JAPAN: Panel Cointegration Approach Utilizing The PANIC Method

Masahiko Shibamoto, Yoshiro Tsutsui and Chisako Yamane

2016: Recursive Utility and the Solution to the Bellman Equation

Masayuki Yao

2016: A Comparative Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Initiation of Integrated Reporting Practices in Japanese and UK Listed Companies: The View of Voluntary Disclosure Theory or Legitimacy Theory?

Kimitaka Nishitani

2016: Consumption Smoothing, Risk Sharing and Household Vulnerability in Rural Mexico

Naoko Uchiyama

2016: Fast Bellman Iteration: An Application of Legendre-Fenchel Duality to Deterministic Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time

Ronaldo Carpio and Takashi Kamihigashi

2016: Robust Comparative Statics for Non-monotone Shocks in Large Aggregative Games

Carmen Camacho, Takashi Kamihigashi and Çağrı Sağlam

2016: Violent Conflicts and Economic Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in India

Atsushi Kato and Takahiro Sato

2016: External Debt and Taylor Rules in a Small Open Economy

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2016: Hometown-specific Bargaining Power in an Experimental Market in China

Xiangdong Qin, Junyi Shen, Ken-Ichi Shimomura and Takehiko Yamato