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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

2007: High Economic Growth, Equity and Sustainable Energy Development of India

Ramprasad Sengupta

2007: Efficacy of Fiscal Policy in Japan: Keynesian and Non-Keynesian Effects on Aggregate Demand

Yusuke Kinari and Masahiko Shibamoto

2007: Bank regulation and supervision in Japan and Germany: A comparison

Ralf Bebenroth, Diemo Dietrich and Uwe Vollmer

2007: Global Dynamics in Infinitely Repeated Games with Additively Separable Continuous Payoffs

Takashi Kamihigashi and Taiji Furusawa

2007: Globalization, Interregional and International Inequalities

Dao-Zhi Zeng and Laixun Zhao

2007: Brand Agriculture and Economic Geography: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Masahisa Fujita and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

2007: A Reassessment of Japan's Monetary Policy during the Great Depression: The Constraints and Remedies

Masato Shizume

2007: The Spirit of Capitalism, Stock Market Bubbles, and Output Fluctuations

Takashi Kamihigashi

2007: Dilemma between new and existing technologies: Separation and coexistence of old and new technologies in the Television Development Division of Sony Corporation

Atsushi Osanai

2007: International Relocation, Difference in Production Costs, and Welfare: Analysis Based on the Two-Country Model

Kohjiro Dohwa

2007: Unionization Structure and the Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment

Arijit Mukherjee and Laixun Zhao

2007: Sustainability of Public Debt: Evidence from Pre-World War II Japan

Masato Shizume

2007: On the Principle of Optimality for Nonstationary Deterministic Dynamic Programming

Takashi Kamihigashi

2006: Immediately Reactive Equilibria in Infinitely Repeated Games with Additively Separable Continuous Payoffs

Takashi Kamihigashi and Taiji Furusawa

2006: Child Labor and Globalization

Elias Dinopoulos and Laixun Zhao

2006: Pollution Havens and Industrial Agglomeration

Dao-Zhi Zeng and Laixun Zhao

2006: An Empirical Test of the Efficiency Hypothesis on the Renminbi NDF in Hong Kong Market

Hideki Izawa

2006: Globalization, R&D and Endogenous Choice of Technology

Fuat Sener and Laixun Zhao

2006: Sending Expatriates to Japan? Executive staffing practice patterns

Ralf Bebenroth and Donghao Li

2006: International Labor Standards and Southern Competition

Laixun Zhao

2006: Factor Price Equalization (FPE) Implies Product Quality Equalization (PQE)

Satya Das and Seiichi Katayama

2006: A Myth of "the Keynesian before Keynes:" Low Interest Rate Policy in the Early 1930s in Japan

Masato Shizume

2006: Japanese Horizontal Keiretsu and the Performance Implications of Membership

Takehiko Isobe, Shige Makino and Anthony Goerzen

2006: Stochastic Optimal Growth with Bounded or Unbounded Utility and with Bounded or Unbounded Shocks

Takashi Kamihigashi

2006: Indeterminacy in the free-trade world

Junko Doi, Kazumichi Iwasa and Koji Shimomura

2006: A well-behaved utility function can generate Giffen behavior

Junko Doi, Kazumichi Iwasa and Koji Shimomura

2006: A two-country dynamic model of international trade and endogenous growth: multiple balanced growth paths and stability

Junko Doi, Kazuo Nishimura and Koji Shimomura

2006: Bank of Japan versus Eurosystem: A Comparison of Monetary Policy Institutions and Conduct in Japan and in the Euro Area

Ralf Bebenroth and Uwe Vollmer

2006: Latin Americans of the Japanese Origin (Nikkeijin) Working in Japan --- A survey

Junichi Goto

2006: Deep Integration and Its Impacts on Nonmembers: EU Enlargement and East Asia

Hiro Lee and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

2006: Communication Externalities on the Knowledge-based Firms in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study of China and Korea

Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Yoshihiro Kameyama

2006: Consumer behavior in Japan and its structural change: Re-examination by sup-predictive test

Masafumi Kozuka

2006: Transversality Conditions and Dynamic Economic Behavior

Takashi Kamihigashi

2006: Performance Impact at the Board Level: Corporate Governance in Japan

Ralf Bebenroth and Donghao Li