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2012: Indian Labour Markets and Returns to Education, 1983 to 2009-10

Kamal Vatta and Takahiro Sato

2012: The Economic Environment surrounding Developing Countries

Toshikatsu Aoyama

2012: Immigration Conflicts

Junko Doi and Laixun Zhao

2012: Does Women's Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India?

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

2012: Elementary Results on Solutions to the Bellman Equation of Dynamic Programming: Existence, Uniqueness, and Convergence

Takashi Kamihigashi

2012: Diet Diversification and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis

Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni and Ganesh Thapa

2012: Does Non-farm Sector Employment reduce Rural Poverty and Vulnerability? Evidence from Vietnam and India

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Ganesh Thapa

2012: Agriculture, Markets and Poverty - A Comparative Analysis of Laos and Cambodia

Raghav Gaiha, Md Azam, Samuel Annim and Katsushi Imai

2012: Existence, Uniqueness and Stability of Stationary Distributions: An Extension of the Hopenhayn-Prescott Theorem

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2012: Exact Draws from the Stationary Distribution of Entry-Exit Models

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2012: Stochastic Optimal Growth with Risky Labor Supply

Yiyong Cai, Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2012: Optimal Government Spending Reversal in a Small Open Economy

Shigeto Kitano and Kenya Takaku

2012: Identification of Factors Behind Performance of Pharmaceutical Industries in India

Chiranjib Neogi, Atsuko Kamiike and Takahiro Sato

2012: Informational Efficiency under the Shogunate Governance: Concentration and Integration of the Rice Market in Tokugawa Japan

Yasuo Takatsuki

2012: The formation of an efficient market in Tokugawa Japan

Yasuo Takatsuki

2012: Ergodic Chaos and Aggregate Stability: A Deterministic Discrete-Choice Model of Wealth Distribution Dynamics

Takashi Kamihigashi

2012: Multi-National Public Goods Provision under Multilateral Income Transfers & Productivity Differences

Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi and Laixun Zhao

2012: Réflexion sur l'Environnement Économique International Entourant les Pays en Développement (Reflection on the International Economic Environment Surrounding the Developing Countries)

Toshikatsu Aoyama

2012: NEW RISKS, OLD WELFARE Japanese university students, work-related anxieties and sources of support

Tuukka Toivonen, Junya Tsutsui and Haruka Shibata

2012: Agriculture-Nutrition Pathway in India

Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi Imai and Ganesh Thapa

2012: Has Dietary Transition Slowed Down in India: An Analysis Based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS

Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni and Ganesh Thapa

2012: Demand for Nutrients in India: An Analysis Based on the 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of the NSS

Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi Imai and Ganesh Thapa

2012: Structural Change in Current Account and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics: Evidence from the G7 Countries

Masahiko Shibamoto and Shigeto Kitano

2012: Japan's Orientation towards Foreign Investments: Inertia Effects and Driving Force of Institutional Changes

Nir Kshetri and Ralf Bebenroth

2012: Agricultural Supply Response and Smallholders Market Participation – the Case of Cambodia

Md Azam, Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

2012: Excess Executive Compensation and the Demand for Accounting Conservatism

Takuya Iwasaki, Shota Otomasa, Atsushi Shiiba and Akinobu Shuto

2012: Performance Outcome of Leadership Succession at Foreign Subsidiaries in Japan. Does Nationality Matter?

Fabian Jintae Froese and Ralf Bebenroth

2012: How Do Investors Trade When Actual Earnings Are Reported with Management Forecasts?

Katsuhiko Muramiya and Kazuhisa Otogawa

2012: Existence and Uniqueness of a Fixed Point for the Bellman Operator in Deterministic Dynamic Programming

Takashi Kamihigashi

2012: Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions-A Macroeconomic and Institutional Perspective

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa, Samuel Annim and Aditi Gupta

2012: Competition Among the Big and the Small

Ken-Ichi Shimomura and Jacques Thisse

2012: Measuring Households' Vulnerability to Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks – the case of Bangladesh

Md Azam and Katsushi Imai

2012: Productivity and Openness: Firm Level Evidence in Brazilian Manufacturing Industries

Wenjun Liu and Shoji Nishijima

2012: Threats or Promises? A Built-in Mechanism of Gradual Reciprocal Trade Liberalization

Taiji Furusawa and Takashi Kamihigashi

2011: Poverty Dynamics of Households in Rural China: Identifying Multiple Pathways for Poverty Transition

Katsushi Imai and Jing You

2011: Accounting for dominance and submission: Disciplining building societies with accounting-based regulation, circa 1960

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo and Masayoshi Noguchi

2011: Food Price Surges and Poverty in Urban Colombia: New Evidence from Household Survey Data

Laura Kiku Rodriguez-Takeuchi and Katsushi Imai

2011: Existence, Stability and Computation of Stationary Distributions: An Extension of the Hopenhayn-Prescott Theorem

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2011: Financial Cooperation in East Asia: Its Future Directions

Wataru Takahashi

2011: Remittances, Growth and Poverty: New Evidence from Asian Countries

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Abdilahi Ali and Nidhi Kaicker

2011: Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty in Bangladesh? New Evidence from Household Panel Data

Katsushi Imai and Md Azam

2011: The Japanese Financial Sector's Transition from High Growth to the 'Lost Decades': A Market Economy Perspective

Wataru Takahashi

2011: The Impact of Microfinance and its Role in Easing Poverty of Rural Households: Estimations from Pakistan

Asad K. Ghalib, Issam Malki and Katsushi Imai

2011: An Order-Theoretic Mixing Condition for Monotone Markov Chains

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2011: Monotonicity and Continuity of the Critical Capital Stock in the Dechert-Nishimura Model

Ken-Ichi Akao, Takashi Kamihigashi and Kazuo Nishimura

2011: Existence and Uniqueness of a Fixed Point for the Bellman Operator in Deterministic Dynamic Programming

Takashi Kamihigashi

2011: Performance of Microfinance Institutions-A Macroeconomic and Institutional Perspective

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa, Samuel Annim and Aditi Gupta

2011: Discrete Choice and Complex Dynamics in Deterministic Optimization Problems

Takashi Kamihigashi

2011: Capital Controls and Welfare

Shigeto Kitano

2011: On Coalitional Stability and Single-peakedness

Hirofumi Yamamura

2011: Measurement of GDP per capita and regional disparities in China, 1979-2009

Masashi Hoshino

2011: Monopolistic Competition in General Equilibrium: Beyond the CES

Evgeny Zhelobodko, Sergey Kokovin, Mathieu Parenti and Jacques Thisse

2011: Are compact cities environmentally friendly?

Carl Gaigne, Stephane Riou and Jacques Thisse

2011: No trade, one-way or two-way trade?

Toshihiro Okubo, Pierre Picard and Jacques Thisse

2011: Komatsu's business model through the product lifecycle

Yoichi Matsumoto

2011: Environmental Outsourcing

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott and Toshihiro Okubo

2011: Anti-agglomeration Subsidies with Heterogeneous Firms

Toshihiro Okubo

2011: Impact of Ethnicities on Market Outcome: Results of Market Experiments in Kenya

Ken-Ichi Shimomura and Takehiko Yamato

2011: The impact of oil prices, real effective exchange rate and inflation on economic activity: Novel evidence for Vietnam

Viet Trung Le and Nguyen Thi Thuy Vinh

2011: Modern Retailers in Transition Economies: The Case of Vietnam

Masayoshi Maruyama and Viet Trung Le

2011: Firm Dynamics and Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing: Evidence from Plant Level Panel Dataset

Aradhna Aggarwal and Takahiro Sato

2011: Productivity distribution, firm heterogeneity, and agglomeration: Evidence from firm-level data

Toshihiro Okubo and Eiichi Tomiura

2011: Does International Trade Really Lead to Business Cycle Synchronization?-A panel data approach

Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo

2011: Note on the Interpretation of Convergence Speed in the Dynamic Panel Model

Masahiko Shibamoto and Yoshiro Tsutsui

2011: Sources of Global Heterogeneity in Retail Spending

Nir Kshetri and Ralf Bebenroth

2011: New Aspects of Intra-Industry trade: Evidence from EU-15 countries

Tadashi Ito and Toshihiro Okubo

2011: Role of Agriculture in Achieving MDG 1 in Asia and the Pacific Region

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Ganesh Thapa