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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

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