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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

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