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2010: On the development strategy of countries of intermediate size -An analysis of heterogenous firms in a multiregion framework

Rikard Forslid and Toshihiro Okubo

2010: Industrial relocation policy and heterogeneous plants sorted by productivity: Evidence from Japan

Toshihiro Okubo and Eiichi Tomiura

2010: Threats or Promises?: A Simple Explanation of Gradual Trade Liberalization

Taiji Furusawa and Takashi Kamihigashi

2010: Microfinance and Poverty -A Macro Perspective

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa and Samuel Annim

2010: Reporting of Internal Control Deficiencies, Restatements, and Management Forecasts

Katsuhiko Muramiya and Tomomi Takada

2010: Achieving equity in health through community based health insurance: India's experience with a large CBHI programme

Aradhna Aggarwal

2010: Recurrent Bubbles

Takashi Kamihigashi

2010: Microfinance and Poverty -A Macro Perspective

Katsushi Imai, Ganesh Thapa and Samuel Annim

2010: Sources of Cross-national Heterogeneity in E-retail Spending: Evidence from Country-Level Data

Nir Kshetri, Ralf Bebenroth and Nicholas C. Williamson

2010: Environmental and Trade Policies for Oligopolistic Industry in the Presence of Consumption Externalities

Jota Ishikawa and Toshihiro Okubo

2010: Economic Effects of Clustering of Ethnically Similar Communities in Kenya: Application of Spatial Correlation Model

Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2010: Analysis of Poverty Reducing Effects of Microfinance from a Macro Perspective: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Ganesh Thapa and Samuel Annim

2010: Trade, Environmental Regulations and Industrial Mobility: An Industry-Level Study of Japan

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott and Toshihiro Okubo

2010: Decentralization, Democracy and Allocation of Poverty Alleviation Programs in Rural India

Takahiro Sato and Katsushi Imai

2010: International Rent-shifting under Foreign Entry through R&D and Licensing

Jota Ishikawa and Toshihiro Okubo

2010: The Intranational Business Cycle in Japan

Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo

2010: Global Dynamics in Repeated Games with Additively Separable Payoffs

Takashi Kamihigashi and Taiji Furusawa

2010: Pro-Poor Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Rural Vietnam

Woojin Kang and Katsushi Imai

2010: Fertility, Parental Education and Development in India: New Evidence from National Household Survey Data

Katsushi Imai and Takahiro Sato

2010: Policy Reactions to the Financial Crisis in Japan: Lessons from the 1990s

Uwe Vollmer and Ralf Bebenroth

2010: Fiscal Stimulus, Agricultural Growth and Poverty in Asia

Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai, Ganesh Thapa and Woojin Kang

2010: Microfinance and Household Poverty Reduction: New evidence from India

Katsushi Imai and Samuel Annim

2010: A Note on Monotone Markov Processes

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2010: Stochastic Stability in Monotone Economies

Takashi Kamihigashi and John Stachurski

2010: Firm Heterogeneity and Location Choice

Toshihiro Okubo

2010: Auditor Conservatism and Abnormal Accruals

Tomomi Takada and Katsuhiko Muramiya

2010: The Strategic Effects of Parallel Trade～Market stealing and wage cutting～

Arijit Mukherjee and Laixun Zhao

2010: Financial Risks and Research Contracts in a Model of Endogenous Growth

Colin Davis and Laixun Zhao

2010: Individual Stock Returns and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Japanese Data

Masahiko Shibamoto and Minoru Tachibana

2010: Shake Hands or Shake Apart? International Relationship of Japan with Global Blocs

Toshihiro Okubo

2010: The effect of managerial ownership on the cost of debt: Evidence from Japan

Akinobu Shuto and Norio Kitagawa

2010: Environmental Product Standards in North-South Trade

Jota Ishikawa and Toshihiro Okubo

2009: Desarrollo económico y política industrial de Japón: Implicaciones para países en Desarrollo

Shoji Nishijima

2009: Tainted Food, Low-Quality Products and Trade

Jean-Marie Viaene and Laixun Zhao

2009: Effect of Threats to Property Rights on Economic Performance of the Manufacturing Sector of Indian States

Atsushi Kato and Takahiro Sato

2009: Is the Japanese Distribution System Becoming More Accessible to Foreign Firms?

Ralf Bebenroth, Nir Kshetri and Reinhard Hunerberg

2009: Two-Way Outsourcing, International Migration, and Wage Inequality

Morihiro Yomogida and Laixun Zhao

2009: Labor-Management Bargaining, Labor Standards and International Rivalry

Jung Hur and Laixun Zhao

2009: Superiority of Exporters and the Causality Between Exporting and Firm Characteristics in Vietnam

Hiep Nguyen and Hiroshi Ohta

2009: Export Intensity and Impacts from Firm Characteristics, Domestic Competition and Domestic Constraints in Vietnam: A Micro-data Analysis

Hiep Nguyen and Shoji Nishijima

2009: Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms

Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo

2009: Behold the 'Behemoth'. The privatization of Japan Post Bank

Uwe Vollmer, Diemo Dietrich and Ralf Bebenroth

2009: The Estimation of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve in Japan and Its Implication for the Inflation Response to a Monetary Policy Shock

Masahiko Shibamoto

2009: The UK Intranational Trade Cycle

Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo

2008: Abnormal Accrual, Informed Trader, and Long-Term Stock Return: Evidence from Japan

Katsuhiko Muramiya, Kazuhisa Otogawa and Tomomi Takada

2008: Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission

Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo

2008: Greenhouse-gas Emission Controls and International Carbon Leakage through Trade Liberalization

Jota Ishikawa and Toshihiro Okubo

2008: The spatial selection of heterogeneous firms

Toshihiro Okubo, Pierre Picard and Jacques Thisse

2008: Managerial Ownership and Accounting Conservatism: Empirical Evidence from Japan

Akinobu Shuto and Tomomi Takada

2008: Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?

Edwin Lai

2008: R&D Partnerships and Capability of Innovation of Small and Medium-Sized Firms in Zhongguancun, Beijing: The Power of Proximity

Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Yoshihiro Kameyama

2008: Earnings Management to Exceed the Threshold: A Comparative Analysis of Consolidated and Parent-only Earnings

Akinobu Shuto

2008: Dense Communication and R&D in Knowledge-based Industrial Clusters: Comparative Study of Small & Medium-sized Firms in Korea and China

Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Yoshihiro Kameyama

2008: Tax reform, delocation and heterogeneous firms: Base widening and rate lowering rule

Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo

2008: Understanding Output and Price Dynamics in Japan: Why Have Japan's Price Movements Been Relatively Stable Since the 1990s?

Masahiko Shibamoto and Ryuzo Miyao

2008: Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan

Kris James Mitchener, Masato Shizume and Marc D. Weidenmier

2008: Trade and Firm Heterogeneity In A Quality-Ladder Model of Growth

Tetsugen Haruyama and Laixun Zhao

2008: Heterogeneous Quality Firms and Trade Costs

Matthias Helble and Toshihiro Okubo

2008: The Relative and Incremental Explanatory Powers of Dirty Surplus for Debt Interest Rate

Akinobu Shuto, Shota Otomasa and Kazuyuki Suda

2008: Aid Effectiveness Revisited: Comparative Studies of Modalities of Aid to Asia and Africa

Hino Hiroyuki and Atsushi Iimi

2008: Competing to Invest in the Foreign Market

Laixun Zhao and Makoto Okamura

2008: The Intranational Business Cycle: Evidence from Japan

Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo

2008: Cognitive Bias in the Laboratory Security Market -Differently Available Information and Equilibrium of Security Market-

Hidetoshi Yamaji and Masatoshi Gotoh

2008: Aging, transitional dynamics, and gains from trade

Takumi Naito and Laixun Zhao

2008: Top Management Characteristics of Foreign MNC Affiliates and Affiliate Performance in Japan: Knowledge-Based and Upper Echelon Perspectives

Tomoki Sekiguchi, Ralf Bebenroth and Donghao Li