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2014: Monetary Policy, Incomplete Asset Markets, and Welfare in a Small Open Economy

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2014: Decoding the Growth-Nutrition Nexus in China: Inequality, Uncertainty and Food Insecurity

Jing You, Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

2014: Seeking Ergodicity in Dynamic Economies

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: Perfect Simulation for Models of Industry Dynamics

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: An Axiomatic Approach to Measuring Degree of Stochastic Dominance

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: Multiple Interior Steady States in the Ramsey Model with Elastic Labor Supply

Takashi Kamihigashi

2014: Stability Analysis for Random Dynamical Systems in Economics

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Value: Focusing on the Role of Environmental Information and Its Credibility

Kimitaka Nishitani and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2014: Buffer Stock Savings by Portfolio Adjustment: Evidence from Rural India

Katsushi Imai and Bilal Malaeb

2014: Dynamic and Long-term Linkages among Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries

Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

2014: Agricultural Employment, Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Constanza Di Nucci

2014: Multiple Interior Steady States in the Ramsey Model with Elastic Labor Supply

Takashi Kamihigashi

2014: Product Innovation in Response to Environmental Standards and Competitive Advantage: A Hedonic Analysis of Refrigerators in the Japanese Retail Market

Kimitaka Nishitani and Munehiko Itoh

2014: The Announcement Effects of Regional Tourism Industrial Policy:The Case of the Hainan International Tourism Island Policy in China

Jianjun Sun, Su Zhang and Nobuyoshi Yamori

2014: An Application of Kleene's Fixed Point Theorem to Dynamic Programming: A Note

Takashi Kamihigashi, Kevin Reffett and Masayuki Yao

2014: The Effect of Institutional Factors on Discontinuities in Earnings Distribution: Public Versus Private Firms in Japan

Akinobu Shuto and Takuya Iwasaki

2014: Japanese SMEs and the Credit Guarantee System after the Global Financial Crisis

Nobuyoshi Yamori

2014: A Comparison between Optimal Capital Controls under Fixed Exchange Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy under Flexible Rates

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2014: Partial Stochastic Dominance

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: Seeking Ergodicity in Dynamic Economies

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: Welfare Benefits of Capital Controls:The Case of Spain

Shigeto Kitano and Yoichi Matsubayashi

2014: An Experimental Examination of Compensation Schemes and Level of Effort in Differentiated Tasks

Hiromasa Takahashi, Junyi Shen and Kazuhito Ogawa

2014: Nutrition, Activity Intensity and Wage Linkages: Evidence from India

Katsushi Imai, Samuel Annim, Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

2014: Stable Shareholdings, the Decision Horizon Problem, and Patterns of Earnings Management

Akinobu Shuto and Takuya Iwasaki

2014: Women's Empowerment and Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India

Katsushi Imai, Samuel Annim, Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

2014: Cultural Openness, Interpersonal Justice, and Job Satisfaction among Millennials and Seniors: Evidence from Japanese Target Employees following M&A

Ralf Bebenroth and Maimunah Ismail

2014: Nutritional Status of Children, Food Consumption Diversity and Ethnicity in Lao PDR

Samuel Annim and Katsushi Imai

2014: Macroeconomic Policy with Financial Market Stability: A Case Study of the Early 19th Century in Japan

Masahiko Shibamoto and Yasuo Takatsuki

2014: Accounting for Dissolution: The Case of Japanese Mining Corporations 1946-1950

Masayoshi Noguchi, Yasuhiro Shimizu and Tsunehiko Nakamura

2014: Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Value: Focusing on the Role of Environmental Information and Its Credibility

Kimitaka Nishitani, M.B. Haider and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2014: Exchange Rate Adjustment, Monetary Policy and Fiscal Stimulus in Japan's Escape from the Great Depression

Masahiko Shibamoto and Masato Shizume

2014: Source of Underestimation of the Monetary Policy Effect: Re-examination of the Policy Effectiveness in Japan's 1990s

Masahiko Shibamoto

2014: Perfect Simulation for Models of Industry Dynamics

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: The Share of Nonprofit and For-profit Organizations in the Quasi-market: An Analysis of the Long-term Care Services Market in Japan

Junyi Shen, Nobuko Kanaya and Hiromasa Takahashi

2014: Greasing the Wheels? The Effect of Corruption in Regulated Manufacturing Sectors of India

Takahiro Sato and Atsushi Kato

2014: Capital Accumulation through Studying Abroad and Return Migration

Takumi Naito and Laixun Zhao

2014: State Space Application to Recent Automobile Sector Triangle Trade between Japan and Latin America

Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Silvio Miyazaki and Leonardo Correia

2014: The Nikodym Convergence Theorem for Countably Additive Set Functions on an Arbitrary Family of Sets

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: On the (de)Stabilizing Effect of Public Debt In a Ramsey Model with Heterogeneous Agents

Kazuo Nishimura, Carine Nourry, Thomas Seegmuller and Alain Venditti

2014: Seeking Ergodicity in Dynamic Economies

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2014: Examining the Tradeoff between Fixed Pay and Performance-related Pay: A Choice Experiment Approach

Junyi Shen, Kazuhito Ogawa and Hiromasa Takahashi

2013: Elementary Results on Solutions to the Bellman Equation of Dynamic Programming:Existence, Uniqueness, and Convergence

Takashi Kamihigashi

2013: Exact Sampling for Industry Dynamics and Other Regenerative Processes

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2013: An Order-Theoretic Approach to Dynamic Programming: An Exposition

Takashi Kamihigashi

2013: Does Women's Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India?

Katsushi Imai, Samuel Annim, Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

2013: Managerial Discretion over Their Initial Earnings Forecasts

Takuya Iwasaki, Norio Kitagawa and Akinobu Shuto

2013: Credibility of Management Earnings Forecasts and Future Returns

Norio Kitagawa and Akinobu Shuto

2013: Simple Fixed Point Results for Order-Preserving Self-Maps and Applications to Nonlinear Markov Operators

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2013: Foreign Employee’s Responses to the 2011 Triple Disaster in Japan

Ralf Bebenroth, Nir Kshetri and Kotoe Konishi

2013: The Effect of Globalization in an Endogenous Growth Model with Heterogeneous Firms and Endogenous International Spillovers: Note

Katsufumi Fukuda

2013: Stochastic Optimal Growth with Risky Labor Supply

Yiyong Cai, Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2013: Financialisation of Food Commodity Markets, Price Surge and Volatility: New Evidence

Kritika Mathur, Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai and Ganesh Thapa

2013: The Effect of Globalization in a Semi Endogenous Growth Model with Firm Heterogeneity, Endogenous International Spillover, and Trade

Katsufumi Fukuda

2013: A Formal Theory of Firm Boundaries: A Trade-Off between Rent Seeking and Bargaining Costs

Yusuke Mori

2013: Trade Liberalization and Skill Premium in Chile

Yoshimichi Murakami

2013: Poverty Dynamics of Households in Rural China

Katsushi Imai and Jing You

2013: Remittances, Growth and Poverty: New Evidence from Asian Countries

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Abdilahi Ali and Nidhi Kaicker

2013: Saving Good Jobs under Global Competition by Rewarding Quality and Efforts

Yongjin Wang and Laixun Zhao

2013: Heterogeneous Combinations of Knowledge Elements: How the Knowledge Base Structure Impacts Knowledge-related Outcomes of a Firm

Yoichi Matsumoto

2013: Cooperation, Trust, and Economic Development: An Experimental Study in China

Junyi Shen and Xiangdong Qin

2013: A Cash Effect in Ultimatum Game Experiments

Junyi Shen and Hiromasa Takahashi

2013: The Effect of Unconventional Monetary Policy on the Macro Economy: Evidence from Japan's Quantitative Easing Policy Period

Masahiko Shibamoto and Minoru Tachibana

2013: How do Science and Technology Intersect in Complex Products? An Analysis of LCD-Related Patents

Yoichi Matsumoto, Kiyonori Sakakibara and Masaharu Tsujimoto

2013: Financial Crisis in Asia: Its Genesis, Severity and Impact on Poverty and Hunger

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa and Samuel Annim

2013: The Potential Welfare Benefit of Capital Controls: the Case of Korea

Shigeto Kitano and Yoichi Matsubayashi

2013: The South Manchuria Railway Company: an accounting and financial history, 1907-1943

Masayoshi Noguchi and Trevor Boyns

2013: Crises, Economic Integration and Growth Collapses in African Countries

Abdilahi Ali and Katsushi Imai

2013: Are Emerging Market Multinationals Milking Their Cross Border Acquisition Targets? A Study of Inbound Japanese and Korean M&As

Ralf Bebenroth and Martin Hemmert

2013: Recent Changes in Micro-Level Determinants of Fertility in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey Data

Katsushi Imai and Takahiro Sato

2013: Inequalities and Patience for Tomorrow

Kazumichi Iwasa and Laixun Zhao

2013: Impacts of Agricultural Extension on Crop Productivity, Poverty and Vulnerability: Evidence from Uganda

Md. Faruq Hasan, Katsushi Imai and Takahiro Sato

2013: Exact Sampling from the Stationary Distribution of Entry-Exit Models

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2013: Stochastic Stability in Monotone Economies

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2013: The Influence of Voluntary and Mandatory Environmental Performance on Financial Performance: An Empirical Study of Indonesian Firms

Kimitaka Nishitani, Nurul Jannah, Hardinsyah Ridwan and Shinji Kaneko