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13-09: Optimal Bandwidth Selection for Differences of Nonparametric Estimators with an Application to the Sharp Regression Discontinuity Design

Yoichi Arai and Hidehiko Ichimura

13-08: Willingness to Pay for Managerial Training: A Case from the Knitwear Industry in Northern Vietnam

Aya Suzuki, Vu Nam and Tetsushi Sonobe

13-07: The success of the industrial development policy in the pharmaceutical industry in Bangladesh

Md. Nurul Amin and Tetsushi Sonobe

13-06: Teaching KAIZEN to Small Business Owners: An Experiment in a Metalworking Cluster in Nairobi (Teaching KAIZEN to Small Business Owners: An Experiment in a Metalworking Cluster in Nairobi)

Yukichi Mano, John Akoten, Yutaka Yoshino and Tetsushi Sonobe

13-05: A Contingent Claim Analysis of Suicide

Shin Ikeda

13-04: How Important is Exports and FDI for China's Economic Growth?

Yuqing Xing and Manisha Pradhananga

13-03: The Concepts, Consequences, and Determinants of Currency Internationalization

Hyoung-kyu Chey

13-02: The Double Dividend of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Consistency between National Food Security and Gains from Trade

Nobuhiro Hosoe

13-01: Japanese Manufacturing Facing the Power Crisis after Fukushima: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis with Foreign Direct Investment

Nobuhiro Hosoe

12-24: Learning about one's own type: a search model with two-sided uncertainty

Akiko Maruyama

12-23: Optimal Transportation Network in a Closed City under Residential and Absentee Land Ownerships

Yuichiro Yoshida and Abu Nur Rashed Ahmed

12-22: An Empirical Market Microstructure Analysis of the Implied Spread Cost in the Japanese Day-Ahead Electricity Market

Shin Ikeda

12-21: Long-Term Effects of Preschooling on Educational Attainments

Hideo Akabayashi and Ryuichi Tanaka

12-20: The Labor Market Effects of Introducing Unemployment Benefits in an Economy with High Informality

Mariano Bosch and Julen Esteban-Pretel

12-19: Automobile and Motorcycle Traffic on Indonesian National Roads: Is It Local or Beyond the City Boundary?

Firman Permana Wandani and Yuichiro Yoshida

12-18: Localized knowledge spillovers and patent citations: A distance-based approach (revised version)

Yasusada Murata, Ryo Nakajima, Ryosuke Okamoto and Ryuichi Tamura

12-16: Default Effects, Transaction Costs, and Imperfect Information

Chris M. Wilson, Luke Garrod and Alistair Munro

12-15: An Inquiry into Corruption Norms: Survey Data of GRIPS Alumni

Tetsushi Sonobe

12-14: The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based MSE Development

Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka

12-13: Does the NIMBY strategy really promote a self-interest?: Evidence from England's waste management policy

Masashi Yamamoto and Yuichiro Yoshida

12-12: Heterogeneous Beliefs, a Short-Sale Restriction, and the Cross Section of Stock Returns: An Evidence from China

Shin Ikeda and Yan Zhang

12-11: Nuclear Power Plants Shutdown and Alternative Power Plants Installation–A Nine-region Spatial Equilibrium Analysis for the Electric Power Market in Japan

Nobuhiro Hosoe

12-10: The Scope for Increasing Biofuel Crop Production in Japan: An Analysis of Alternative Policies

Ai Leon and Roberto Leon-Gonzalez

12-09: Does working with spouses make teams more productive? A field experiment in India using NREGA

Alistair Munro, Arjan Verschoor and Amaresh Dubey

12-08: Endogeneity and Panel Data in Growth Regressions: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach

Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Daniel Montolio

12-07: Financial Integration from a Time-Varying Cointegration Perspective

Xianguo Huang, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Somrasri Yupho

12-06: Estimating the Effects of Pronatal Policies on Residential Choice and Fertility

Ryo Nakajima and Ryuichi Tanaka

12-05: Environmental Compliance and Human Capital: Evidence from Chinese Industrial Firms

Jing Lan and Alistair Munro

12-04: Cost-Benefit Analysis in Monopolistic Competition Models of Urban Agglomeration

Yoshitsugu Kanemoto

12-03: A Numerical Approach to the Contract Theory: the Case of Moral Hazard

Hideo Hashimoto, Kojun Hamada and Nobuhiro Hosoe

12-02: How Much is TEPCO Worth?–Estimating the Fundamental Value of its Thermal Plants

Nobuhiro Hosoe and Makoto Tanaka

12-01: Fukushima Dai-Ichi and the Economics of Nuclear Decontamination

Alistair Munro

11-31: Prospect of Development Assistance: New Trends of Poverty and Inequality

Naoki Ando

11-30: Prospect of Development Assistance: Japan’s Opinion Poll and Burden Sharing

Naoki Ando

11-29: For a Better International Monetary System: An Emerging Economy Perspective

Kyung Soo Kim and Hyoung-kyu Chey

11-28: The Study on Ideal Cultural Properties Protection Administration in the Local Government With a Central Focus on “Basic Plan of History and Culture”

Yuko Tai

11-27: A Numerical Approach to the Contract Theory: the Case of Adverse Selection

Hideo Hashimoto, Kojun Hamada and Nobuhiro Hosoe

11-26: The Impact of Remittance on Poverty and Inequality: A Micro-Simulation Study for Nepal

Chakra Acharya and Roberto Leon-Gonzalez

11-25: Economic Geography and Productive Efficiency of Solid-Waste Logistics in Japan’s Prefectures: Measurements via the Data Envelopment Analysis

Daisuke Ichinose, Masashi Yamamoto and Yuichiro Yoshida

11-23: Management Practices, Self-Selection into Management Training Participation, and Training Effects in the Garment Industry in Ethiopia

Girum Abebe and Tetsushi Sonobe

11-22: Productivity Growth and Job Creation in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters

Tetsushi Sonobe, Yuki Higuchi and Keijiro Otsuka

11-21: Second-Best Cost-Benefit Analysis in Monopolistic Competition Models of Urban Agglomeration

Yoshitsugu Kanemoto

11-20: Can the Renminbi Rise as a Global Currency? The Political Economy of Currency Internationalization

Hyoung-kyu Chey

11-19: REGIONAL VARIATION IN RISK AND TIME PREFERENCES: EVIDENCE FROM A LARGE-SCALE FIELD EXPERIMENT IN RURAL UGANDA

Yuki Tanaka and Alistair Munro

11-18: Why Did the US Federal Reserve Unprecedentedly Offer Swap Lines to Emerging Market Economies during the Global Financial Crisis? Can We Expect Them Again in the Future?

Hyoung-kyu Chey

11-17: On the behavioural relevance of optional and mandatory impure public goods: results from a laboratory experiment

Dirk Engelmann, Alistair Munro and Marieta Valente

11-16: What Drove the Crop Price Hikes in the Food Crisis?

Tetsuji Tanaka and Nobuhiro Hosoe

11-15: Underrestimation of Inefficiency in Social Efficiency Benchmarking with Non-Parametric Methodsof Production Technology Identification: A Note

Hun Koo Ha, Masashi Yamamoto, Yuichiro Yoshida and Anming Zhang

11-14: The Progressivity Of Health Care Services In Ghana

Mawuli Gaddah and Alistair Munro

11-13: Global Value Chains and Market Formation Process in Emerging Export Activity: Evidence from Ethiopian Flower Industry

Mulu Gebreeyesus and Tetsushi Sonobe