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2008

No.253
Yuko Hisa
Ginkokei venture capital to IPO ga kigyo no setsubitoshikodo ni ataeru eikyo [in Japanese]
March 2009

No.252
Seiichi Eguchi
Senkanki nihon ni okeru gyorui shohiryo no shinsuikei(1921-40) [in Japanese]
December 2008

No.251
Nobuaki Yamashita and Kyoji Fukao
The Effects of Overseas Operations on Home Employment of Japanese Multinational Enterprises
June 2008


2007

No.250
Jian Wang and Yukihiko Kiyokawa
Kokuseichosain no bunseki: (1) Nogyoken no baai
-Meibokaso kara senmonkaso heno gani-
[in Japanese]
March 2008

No.249
Tomoaki Yamada
Dogakuteki ippan kinko moderu to shisan kakusa [in Japanese]
March 2008

No.248
Yohei Kobayashi and Norifumi Yukutake
Tokyoken ni okeru 1990 nendai iko no sumikae kodo
-"Jutaku juyo jittai chosa" wo mochiita Mixed Logit bunseki-
[in Japanese]
March 2008

No.247
Rui Takahashi
Vietnam ni okeru tokeikiko no seiritsu to hatten -1946nen iko wo chushin ni- [in Japanese]
March 2008

No.246
Masayo Shikimi
Chusho kigyo no ginkokankei to ginkokan kyoso, ginkogappei, ginkokiki [in Japanese]
March 2008

No.245
Kazuhiko Hayakawa
On the Effect of Nonstationary Initial Conditions in Dynamic Panel Data Models
March 2008

No.244
Kyoji Fukao, Tomohiko Inui, Shigesaburo Kabe and Deqiang Liu
An International Comparison of the TFP Levels of Japanese, Korean and Cinese Listed Firms
March 2008

No.243

Kokyotoshi ga boeki, sangyo kozo ni ataeru koka ni tsuite
Higashi asia ni okeru doro, ICT gijutsu no yakuwari
[in Japanese]
March 2008

No.242
Shoichi Hisa
The Analysis of a Deviation of Investment and Corporate Governance

March 2008

No.241
Ho-il Moon
Kitachosen jinko suikei: 1994-2000 [in Japanese]
March 2008

No.240
Ho-il Moon
Kitachosen jinko suikei: 1953-1993 [in Japanese]
March 2008

No.239
Takeshi Miyazaki
Chiho kofuzei to shichoson gappei
Dankaihosei no minaoshi ga gappei ni oyobosu eikyo wo chushintoshite
[in Japanese]
February 2008

No.237
Naohito Abe
Volatility in Panel Data of Household Expenditure
February 2008

No.236
Ryo Kambayashi
The Decomposition of Job Flows in Japan: 1991-2005 [in Japanese]
January 2008

No.235
Jan-Pieter Smits
Measuring ‘The Wealth and Poverty of Nations’: Methodological Problems and Possible Solutions
January 2008

No.234
Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo
The Intranational Business Cycle: Evidence from Japan
January 2008

No.233
Kyoji Fukao and Yuhong Wei
How do the Location Determinants of Vertical FDI and Horizontal FDI Differ?
January 2008

No.232
Yoshihiro Chiba
Manila chiikikeizaiken ni okeru ryutsutorihiki no tenkai
-19seiki kara 20seiki zenhan ni okeru beikoku torihiki wo chushin ni-
[in Japanese]
January 2008

No.231
Shuntaro Washizaki
Edo machiyashiki keiei no shushikozo to shisanrishiritsu: 1695-1754
-Nihonbashi kobunacho 1chome Inuyamaya Kanbeke-
[in Japanese]
January 2008

No.230
Keiko Yamaguchi
Testing for the presence of noise in long memory processes [in Japanese]
November 2007

No.229
Young Gak Kim
Estimating Production Functions with R&D Investment and Endogeneity
December 2007

No.228
Eiji Kurozumi
Keizai jikeiretsu bunseki to tanikon kentei: koremade no hatten to kongo no tenbo [in Japanese]
December 2007

No.227
Konosuke Odaka
Exploring and Sharing Asian Economic History:
An Interim Report on the Asian Historical Statistics Database Project

November 2007

No.226
Takahiro Ito and Takashi Kurosaki
Weather Risk, Wages in Kind, and the Off-Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in a Developing Country
November 2007

No.225
Shuntaro Washizaki
Chosi shoyu jozogyo chingin no saisuikei: 1864-88 [in Japanese]
November 2007

No.224
Kyoji Fukao, Tsutomu Miyagawa and Miho Takizawa
Productivity Growth and Resource Reallocation in Japan
November 2007

No.223
Kyosuke Kurita and Takashi Kurosaki
The Dynamics of Growth, Poverty, and Inequality:
A Panel Analysis of Regional Data from the Philippines and Thailand

October 2007

No.222
Yoko Oguro
The Influence of Intra-Industry Trade on Export Sensitivity to Exchange Rates
October 2007, revised February 2008

No.221
Hiroaki Chigira and Tsunemasa Shiba
Bayesian Estimation of Unknown Regression Error Heteroscedasticity
October 2007, revised February 2008

No.220
Yoshiko Nagano
National Accounts in Philippine Economic History:
A Preliminary Report on Data Gathering and Research Trends

August 2007

No.219
Hun-Chang Lee
The Political Economy of Pre-industrial Trade in Northeast Asia
August 2007

No.218
Michael Bognanno and Ryo Kambayashi
Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005
July 2007

No.217
Housung Jun and Hyeog Ug Kwon
An Alternative System GMM Estimation in Dynamic Panel Models
July 2007

No.216
Yashuhiro Hara
Taiwan, kankoku ni okeru kokougyo seisankeiretsu no ginmi [in Japanese]
July 2007

No.215
Young Gak Kim, Hyeog Ug Kwon and Kyoji Fukao
Kigyo jigyosho no sannyu-taishutsu to sangyo level no seisansei [in Japanese]
June 2007

No.214
Hyeog Ug Kwon
Exprots, FDI, and Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms
June 2007

No.213
Kazuhiko Hayakawa
A Simple Efficient Instrumental Variable Estimator in Panel AR(p) Models
May 2007

No.212
Kazuhiko Hayakawa
The Bias-Corrected First-Difference Estimator in
Dynamic Panel Data Models with Cross Section Dependence and Heteroscedasticity

May 2007

No.211
Ralph Paprzycki
The Determinants of and Prospects for Foreign Direct Investment in Japan
May 2007

No.210
Kyoji Fukao
The Performance of Foreign Firms and the Macroeconomic Impact of FDI
May 2007

No.209
Yoshiko Nagano
Philippine keizaishi kenkyu to kokumin keizai keisan -Kenkyushi ni tsuiteno oboegaki- [in Japanese]
April 2007


2006

No.208
Nagendra Shrestha
Multi Country Vertical Specialization Dependence: A New Approach to the Vertical Specialization study
March 2007

No.207
Yukako Murakami and Kyoji Fukao
The Adjustment Speed of Employment at Foreign-Owned Firms
March 2007

No.206
Ryo Kambayashi
Onsite Research in the U.S. and Canada: Govemental Data Availability in Notrh America [in Japanese]
March 2007

No.205
Takashi Kurosaki, Yasuyuki Sawada, Asit Banerji and S. N. Mishra
Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Poverty: Socio-Economic Profiles of Rickshaw Pullers and Owner-Contractors in North-East Delhi
March 2007

No.204
Kozo Kiyota and Miho Takizawa
The Shadow of Death: Pre-exit Performance of Firms in Japan
January 2007

No.203
Naohito Abe and Yessica C.Y. Chung
Voluntary Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance
The Empirical Evidence on Earnings Forecasts

January 2007

No.202
Nobuaki Yamashita
The Impact of Production Fragmentation on Industry Skill Upgrading:
New Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing

January 2007

No.201
Kazuyasu Sakamoto
Familial Support for Unemployed Youth
January 2007

No.200
Takahiro Ito
Caste Discrimination and Transaction Costs in the Labor Market: Evidence from Rural North India
January 2007

No.199
Fumio Makino
Senzen chugoku ni okeru bukka, chingin: suikei to bunseki [in Japanese]
December 2006

No.198
Kazuyasu Sakamoto and Yukinobu Kitamura
Sedaikan kankei kara mita kekkon kodo [in Japanese]
December 2006

No.197
Eiji Kurozumi and Kazuhiko Hayakawa
Asymptotic Properties of the Efficient Estimators for Cointegrating Regression Models with Serially Dependent Errors
December 2006

No.196
Kyoji Fukao and Osamu Saito
Japan's alternating phases of growth and outlook for the future
December 2006

No.195
Mataji Umemura
Teishicchi deno suiden kaihatsu [in Japanese]
December 2006

No.194
Kazuhiko Hayakawa and Eiji Kurozumi
The Role of "Leads" in the Dynamic OLS Estimation of Cointegrating Regression Models
December 2006

No.193
Prema-chandra Athukorala
Multinational Enterprises and Manufacturing for Export in Developing Asian Countries:
Emerging Patterns and Opportunities for Latecomers

December 2006

No.192
Yukako Murakami and Kyoji Fukao
Productivity Spillovers and the Entry of Foreign-Owned Firms:
The Case of Japanese Manufacturing Firms

November 2006

No.191
Kyoji Fukao, Keiko Ito, Shigesaburo Kabe, Deqiang Liu and Fumihide Takeuchi
Are Japanese Firms Failing to Catch up in Localization?
An Empirical Analysis Based on Affiliate-level Data of Japanese Firms and a Case Study of the Automobile Industry in China

November 2006

No.190
Eiji Kurozumi and Yoichi Arai
Test for the null hypothesis of cointegration with reduced size distortion
November 2006

No.189
Daiji Kawaguchi, Ryo Kambayashi, Young Gak Kim, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Satoshi Shimizutani, Kyoji Fukao, Tatsuji Makino and Izumi Yokoyama
Nenkochingin ha seisansei to kairishiteiruka:
Kogyochosa, chinginkozokihonchosa kohyo data niyoru jissho bunseki
[in Japanese]
October 2006

No.188
Kyoji Fukao, Hyeog Ug Kwon and Miho Takizawa
Gaishi ni yoru M&A ha yori takai performance wo motarasunoka [in Japanese]
October 2006

No.187
Kyoji Fukao, Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Young Gak Kim, and Izumi Yokoyama
Deferred Compensation: Evidence from Employer-Employee Matched Data from Japan
October 2006

No.186
Somsupa Nopprach
Supplier Selection in the Thai Automotive Industry
October 2006

No.185
Hiroaki Chigira and Tsunemasa Shiba
Bayesian Estimation of Unknown Heteroscedastic Variances
September 2006

No.184
Yukinobu Kitamura
Dynamic Consumption Behavior: Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data
September 2005, revised August 2006

No.183
Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi and Izumi Yokoyama
Wage Distribution in Japan: 1989-2003
August 2006

No.182
Satoshi Shimizutani and Izumi Yokoyama
Has Japan's Long-term employment Practice Survived?
New Evidence Emerging Since the 1990s

August 2006

No.181
Dale W. Jorgenson and Khuong Vu
Information Technology and The World Growth Resurgence
August 2006

No.180
Kyoji Fukao, Young Gak Kim and Hyeog Ug Kwon
Plant Turnover and TFP Dynamics in Japanese Manufacturing
August 2006

No.179
Ryo Kambayashi and Yuko Ueno
Vacancy Size and Offered Wage A Source of Search Friction in The Japanese Labor Market
August 2006

No.178
In Choi and Timothy K. Chue
Subsampling-Based Tests of Stock-Return Predictability
July 2006

No.177
Hiroaki Chigira and Taku Yamamoto
A Bias-Corrected Estimation for Dynamic Panel Models in Small Samples
July 2006

No.176
Harry X. Wu
The Chinese GDP Growth Rate Puzzle: How Fast Has the Chinese Economy Grown?
July 2006

No.175
Robert Inklaar, Marcel P. Timmer and Bart van Ark
Mind the gap! International comparisons of productivity in services and goods production
July 2006, revised October 2006

No.174
Kyoji Fukao, Keikok Ito, Hyeg Ug Kwon and Miho Takizawa
Cross-Border Acquisitons and Target Firms' Performance: Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data
July 2006

No.173
Youri N. Ivanov
On Compilation of Long Term Series of GDP for the Former USSR Republics
July 2006

No.172
Tatiana A. Khomenko
Estimation of Gross Social Product and Net Material Product in the USSR
July 2006

No.171
Hak K. Pyo, Geun-Hee Rhee and Bongchan Ha
Growth Accounting and Productivity Analysis by 33 Industrial Sectors in Korea (1984-2002)
June 2006

No.170
Ruoen Ren and Haitao Zheng
Chinese Manufacturing Performance from Multilateral Perspective: 1980-2004
June 2006, revised July 2006

No.169
Hiroaki Chigira and Taku Yamamoto
Forcasting in large cointegrated processes
June 2006

No.168
Hyeog Ug Kwon and Kyoji Fukao
Ushinawareta 10 nen ni TFP josho ha naze teitaishitaka: Seizogyo data ni yoru jisshobunseki [in Jpanese]
June 2006

No.167
Rene Belderbos, Kyoji Fukao and Hyeog Ug Kwon
Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Location of
Research and Development Activities by Multinational Firms

June 2006

No.166
Shiko Maruyama
Welfare Analysis Incorporating a Structural Entry-Exit Model: A Case Study of Medicare HMOs
June 2006

No.165
Noriko Inakura and Satoshi Shimizutani
Interest Income and Household Savings:
Evidence Based on the Maturation of Postal Savings Certificates

May 2006

No.164
Yoshiko Nagano
Senzen firipin no sensasu ni tsuite -"1903nen sensasu" to amerika tochi- [in Japanese]
May 2006

No.163
Boris Lokshin, Rene Belderbos and Martin Carree
Internal and external R&D: complements or substitutes? Evidence from a dynamic panel data model
May 2006

No.162
Kyoji Fukao, Hyeog Ug Kwon and Miho Takizawa
M&A to hibaishukigyo no pafomansu:
Tainichi M&A to kokunaikigyokan M&A no hikaku
[in Japanese]
April 2006

No.161
Takahiro Ito and Takashi Kurosaki
Weather Risk and the Off-Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in India
April 2006


2005

No.160
Erik Feijen and Enrico Perotti
The Political Economy of Financial Fragility
March 2006

No.159
Maria Guadalupe and Francisco Perez-Gonzalez
The Impact of Product Market Competition on Private Benefits of Control
March 2006

No.158
Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymound Fisman and Tarun Khanna
Limits to Policy Reversal: Privatization in India
March 2006

No.157
Zekeriya Eser and Joe Peek
Reciprocity and Network Coordination: Evidence from Japanese Banks
March 2006

No.156
John M. de Figueiredo and Charles M. Cameron
Endogenous Cost Lobbying: Theory and Evidence
March 2006

No.155
Kuan-Pin Lin, Zhi-He Long and Mei Wu
A Spatial Investigation of σ-Convergence in China
March 2006

No.154
Tetsuro Narita
Remittances to Latin America: Moving towards More Precise Data Collection
March 2006

No.153
Masuyo Takahashi
Nicchiki taiwan no tokeichosaseidoshi (ko)
-Taiwan sotokufu no tokeichosajigyo, tokuni "Hokokurei" ni tsuite-
[in Japanese]
March 2006

No.152
Jean-Pierre Dormois
Tracking the elusive French productivity lag in industry 1840-1973
March 2006

No.151
Rui Takahashi
Betonamu ni okeru nogyosensasu no jisshi to sono hyoka
-Nihon tono hikaku ni miru mondaiten-
[in Japanese]
March 2006

No.150
Yukihiko Kiyokawa and Jian Wang
Senzennihon no chihotokeisoshiki no seiritsu to tokeichosain seido
-Noshomutokei wo chushin ni-
[in Japanese]
March 2006

No.149
Bongchan Ha and Hak K. Pyo
Data Structure of Korea for Estimating Productivity in KLEMS Model
March 2006

No.148
Hiroaki Chigira and Taku Yamamoto
Cointegration, Integration, and Long-Term Forcasting
March 2006

No.147
Kyoji Fukao, Kozo Kiyota and Ximing Yue
China's Long-Term International Trade Statistics: By Commodity, 1952-1964 and 1981-2000
March 2006

No.146
Ho-il Moon
Shokuminchiki chosen no nanboku jinkouhi
-Chosen sotokuhu kokuseichosasiryo no bunkatsu fomatto-
[in Japanese]
March 2006

No.145
Satoru Kanoh and Asuka Takeuchi
An Analysis of Option Pricing in the Japanese Market
March 2006

No.144
Tangjun Yuan
Nokokan koekijoken no naigaikakakusa to shigen iten
- Naze chugoku no nomin ha mazushiinoka -
[in Japanese]
February 2006

No.143
Yukako Murakami and Kyoji Fukao
Inward Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity Growth in Japan
February 2006

No.142
Tangjun Yuan
Seisanyososhijo no bundan to bukkasuijun:
Chugoku ni okeru hiboekizai boekizai no sotaikakaku ni kansuru bunseki [in Japanese]

February 2006

No.141
Ralph Paprzycki
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Japan:
Case Studies of the Automobile, Finance, and Health Care Industries

February 2006

No.140
Rene Belderbos, Kyoji Fukao and Tomoko Iwasa
Foreign and Domestic R&D Investment
February 2006

No.139
Osamu Saito and Tokihiko Settsu
Money, credit and Smithian growth in Tokugawa Japan
February 2006

No.138
Yukako Murakami
Are Multinational Enterprises More Productive? A Test of the Selection Hypothesis
February 2006

No.137
Satoru Kanoh and Chakkrit Pumpaisanchai
Listening to the Market: Estimating Credit Demand and Supply from Survey Data
February 2006

No.136
Shunsuke Sakamoto
Parental Attitudes toward Children and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural India
January 2006

No.135
Osamu Saito
Land, labour and market forces in Tokugawa Japan
January 2006

No.134
Takashi Kurosaki
Labor Contracts, Incentives, and Food Security in Rural Myanmar
January 2006

No.133
Kyoji Fukao, Hyeog Ug Kwon and Miho Takizawa
Tainichi Kokunai Kigyokan M&A to Hibaisyukigyo no performance [in Japanese]
January 2006

No.132
Kyoji Fukao, Debin Ma and Tangjun Yuan
Real GDP in Pre-War East Asia:
A 1934-36 Benchmark Purchasing Power Parity Comparison with the U.S.

January 2006

No.131
Eiji Ogawa and Junko Shimizu
AMU Deviation Indicator for Coordinated Exchange Rate Policies in East Asia and its Relation with Effective Exchange Rates
January 2006

No.130
Kazuhiko Hayakawa
Efficient GMM Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models Where Large Heterogeneity May Be Present
January 2006

No.129
Kazuhiko Hayakawa
The Asymptotic Properties of the System GMM Estimator in Dynamic Panel Data Models When Both N and T are Large
January 2006

No.128

Takeshi Miyazaki
Shichoson Gappei niha Saishutsu Sakugen koka ga arunoka
[in Japanese]
November 2005

No.127
Satoru Kanoh
A Further Extension of Duration Dependent Models
November 2005

No.126
Hiroaki Chigira
A Test of Cointegration Rank Based on Principal Component Analysis
November 2005, revised January 2006

No.125
Noriko Inakura, Satoshi Shimizutani and Ralph Paprzycki
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Discipline:
Direct Evidence on Bank Switching Behavior in Japan

October 2005

No.124
Yukinobu Kitamura and Takeshi Miyazaki
Kekkon Keikenritsu to Syussyoryoku no Chiikikan Kakusa:Jissyoteki Survey
[in Japanese] October 2005

No.123
Toshiyuki Mizoguchi
Estimates of the Long-run Economic Growth of Taiwan Based on Revised SNA (1901-2000) Statistics
October 2005

No.122
Tomohiko Inui and Hyeog Ug Kwon
Nihon Seizogyo niokeru R&D Katsudo to Seisansei:
Kigyo Level Data niyoru Jissyobunseki

[in Japanese] October 2005

No.121
Thee Kian Wie
Policies Affecting Indonesia’s Industrial Technology Development
September 2005

No.120
Hak Kil Pyo and Bongchan Ha
Technology and Long-run Economic Growth in Korea
September 2005

No.119
Daan Marks
Reconstruction of the Service Sector in the National Accounts of Indonesia 1900-2000:
Concepts and Methods

September 2005

No.118
Toru Kubo
Industrial Development in Republican China,Newly Revised Index: 1912-1948
September 2005

No.117
Prema-chandra Athukorala and Archanun Kohpaiboon
The International Allocation of R&D Activity by US Multinationals:
The East Asian Experience in Comparative Perspective

September 2005

No.116
Yukinobu Kitamura
Dynamic Consumption Behavior: Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data
This paper was revised. Please see No. 184
September 2005

No.115
Keiko Ito and Kyoji Fukao
The Vertical Division of Labor and Japanese Outward FDI:
Impacts on Human Capital Deepening in Japan

[in Japanese]
September 2005

No.114
Jean-Pascal Bassino
Regional and personal inequality in welfare in pre-WWII Japan (1892-1941):
Physical stature, income, and health

September 2005

No.113
Kazuyasu Sakamoto
Kariire Seiyaku to Oya karano Iten [in Japanese]
September 2005

No.112
Hyeog Ug Kwon, Keiko Ito and Kyoji Fukao
Gaishikei Kigyo ha Nigeashi ga Hayainoka?:
Jigyosyo no Taisyutsu to Koyo Seityoritsu nikansuru Jissyobunseki
[in Japanese]
September 2005, revised September 2006

No.111
Takahiro Ito
Tojyokoku ni okeru Kakei no Rodohaibun Kettei to Risk:India Uttar Pradesh oyobi Bihar no Noka no jirei [in Japanese]
August 2005

No.110
Daiji Kawaguchi and Junko Miyazaki
Working Mothers and Sons' Preferences Regarding Female Labor:
Direct Evidence from stated Preferences

August 2005

No.109
Masahiro Hori and Satoshi Shimizutani
Did Japanese Consumers Become More Prudent During 1998-1999?
Evidence From Household Level Data

August 2005

No.108
Tsutomu Miyagawa, Yukie Sakuragawa and Miho Takizawa
Productivity and the Business Cycle in Japan:
Evidence from Japanese Industry Data

July 2005

No.107
Takeshi Miyazaki
Chihoujichitai no Saisyutsu Kouzou to Shityouson Gappei:Gappei Sokushinhou to Kanrenshite [in Japanese]
June 2005

No.106
Daiji Kawaguchi and Hisahiro Naito
The efficient moment estimation of the probit model with an endogenous continuous regressor
June 2005

No.105
Heather Montgomery and Satoshi Shimizutani
The Effectiveness of Bank Recapitalization in Japan
June 2005

No.104
Gary Saxonhouse
Good Deflation/Bad Deflation and Japanese Economic Recovery
June 2005

No.103
Ronald McKinnon
Exchange Rate or Wage Changes in International Adjustment?
Japan and China versus the United States

June 2005

No.102
Masahiro Kawai
Reform of the Japanese Banking System
June 2005

No.101
Koichiro Kamada and Izumi Takagawa
Policy Coordination in East Asia and across the Pacific
June 2005

No.100
Takatoshi Ito
Interventions and Japanese Economic Recovery
June 2005

No.99
Toshihiro Ihori and Atsushi Nakamoto
Japan’s Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Reconstruction
June 2005

No.98
Masahiro Hori and Satoshi Shimizutani
Price Expectations and Consumption under Deflation:
Evidence from Japanese Household Survey Data

June 2005

No.97
Koichi Hamada and Asahi Noguchi
The Role of Preconceived Ideas in Macroeconomic Policy:
Japan's Experiences in Two Deflationary Periods

June 2005

No.96
Willem H. Buiter
Overcoming the Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates:
Gesell's Currency Carry Tax vs. Eisler's Parallel Virtual Currency.

June 2005

No.95
Alan G. Ahearne and Naoki Shinada
Zombie Firms and Economic Stagnation in Japan
June 2005

No.94
Mitsuhiro Fukao
The Effects of ‘Gesell’ (Currency) Taxes in Promoting Japan’s Economic Recovery
June 2005

No.93
Rasmus Fatum and Michael M. Hutchison
Foreign Exchange Intervention and Monetary Policy in Japan, 2003-04
June 2005

No.92
Naohito Abe and Satoshi Shimizutani
Employment Policy and Corporate Governance:
An Empirical Comparison of the Stakeholder versus the Profit-Maximization model

June 2005

No.91
Yasuyuki Todo and Satoshi Shimizutani
Overseas R&D Activities by Multinational Enterprises:
Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data

May 2005

No.90
Isao Ohashi
Koureisya no Koyou Kouzou :Jigyousyo Bunseki [in Japanese]
May 2005

No.89
Masuyo Takahashi
Taiwan Toukei Zasshi Soumokuji Kaidai [in Japanese]
May 2005

No.88
Hyeog Ug Kwon, Kyoji Fukao and Keiko Ito
Tainichi Tyokusetsutousi ha Nihon no Seisanseikoujyou wo motarasuka?
Kigyoukatudou Kihontyousa Kohyoudata ni motozuku Jissyoubunseki
[in Japanese]
April 2005

No.87
Haruko Noguchi and Satoshi Shimizutani
Do Non-Profit Operators Provide Higher Quality of Care?
Evidence from Micro-Level Data for Japan’s Long-term Care Industry

April 2005

No.86
Lee Branstetter and Reiko Aoki
Is Academic Science Raising Innovative Productivity?
Theory and Evidence from Firm-Level Data

April 2005

No.85
Reiko Aoki and Tomoko Saiki
Implications of Product Patents : Lessons from Japan
April 2005

No.84
Ralph Paprzycki and Kyoji Fukao
The Extent and History of Foreign Direct Investment in Japan
April 2005

No.83
Noriko Inakura and Satoshi Shimizutani
Yokin Hoken Seido Pay-off Kaikin to Yokinsya Kiritsu:Kakei no Microdata niyoru Azukekae Koudou no Kensyou [in Japanese]
April 2005
No.82
Kazuhiko Hayakawa
Small Sample Bias Properties of the System GMM Estimator in Dynamic Panel Data Models
April 2005


2004

No.81
Masuyo Takahashi
Taiwan Toukei Zasshi Kyoukai wo megutte:Nicchisyoki Taiwan Toukei Jigyou to Mizushina Sitisaburo [in Japanese]
March 2005

No.80
Takashi Kurosaki
Crop Choice, Farm Income, and Political Relations in Myanmar
March 2005

No.79
Tomohiro Machikita
Career Crisis? The Impacts of Financial Shock on Entry-Level Labour Market:
Experimental Evidences from Thailand in 1997

February 2005

No.78
Tomohiro Machikita
Is Learning by Migrating in Megalopolis Really Important?
February 2005

No.77
Hosung Jung
A Test for Autocorrelation in Dynamic Panel Data Models
February 2005

No.76
Haruko Noguchi and Satoshi Shimizutani
Nonprofit/For-Profit Status and Earning Differentials
in the Japanese At-home Elderly Care Industry:
Evidence from Micro-level Data on Home Helpers and Staff Nurses

February 2005

No.75
Reiko Aoki and Sadao Nagaoka
The Utility Standard and the Patentability of Intermediate Technology
February 2005

No.74
Tetsuro Narita
Toshi Reisai Jieigyou Kakei to Sinyou Sijyou:Nousonbumon deno Kenkyu Chikuseki karano Tenbou [in Japanese]
February 2005

No.73
Haruko Noguchi and Satoshi Shimizutani
Nonprofit and For-profit Providers in Japan’s At-home Care Industry:
Evidence on Quality of Service and Household Choice

February 2005

No.72
Rene Belderbos and Jianglei Zou
Divesture of Foreign Manufacturing Affiliates:
Country Platforms, Multinational Plant Networks, and Foreign Investor Agglomeration

January 2005

No.71
Kyosuke Kurita
Thai, Philippine, India niokeru Syouhi no Fubyoudou:
Kakei Tyousa Microdata wo Motiita Gakurekibetu Kyojyuutiikibetu Nenreikouka no Kensyou
[in Japanese]
January 2005

No.70
Masayo Shikimi (Tomiyama)
Multiple Banking Relationships Are Beneficial?
Evidence from the Japanese Small and Medium Sized Firms

January 2005

No.69
Hiroaki Chigira
A Test of Serial Independence of Deviations from Cointegrating Relations
January 2005

No.68
Osamu Saito and Mihoko Takahama with Ryuichi Kaneko
Contrasts in Vital Rates: Madras and Punjab in the Colonial Period
January 2005

No.67
Haruko Noguchi and Satoshi Shimizutani
The Determinants of Exit from Nursing Homes and the Price Elasticity of Nursing Home Care:
Evidence from Japanese Micro-level Data

January 2005

No.66
Kyoji Fukao, Debin Ma, and Tangjun Yuan
International Comparison in Historical Perspective:
Reconstructing the 1934-36 Benchmark Purchasing Power Parity for Japan, Korea and Taiwan

January 2005

No.64
Eiichi Tomiura
Foreign outsourcing and firm-level characteristics:
evidence from Japanese manufacturers

December 2004

No.63
Drusilla K. Brown, Kozo Kiyota and Robert M. Stern
Computational Analysis of the Menu of U.S.-Japan Trade Policies
December 2004

No.62
Arata Kuno
An Evaluation of Japan's First Safeguards Actions
December 2004

No.61
Thomas J. Prusa
East Asia’s Antidumping Problem
December 2004

No.60
Sadao Nagaoka
Determinants of high-royalty contracts and the impact of stronger protection of intellectual property rights in Japan
December 2004

No.59
Keith E. Maskus
Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture and the Interests of Asian-Pacific Economies
December 2004

No.58
Keith Head and John Ries
Judging Japan’s FDI: The verdict from a dartboard model
December 2004

No.57
Theresa M. Greaney
Measuring network effects on trade: are Japanese affiliates distinctive?
December 2004

No.56
Alan V. Deardorff
Trade and location: A moving example motivated by Japan
December 2004

No.55
Ichiro Araki
The Evolution of Japan’s Aggressive Legalism
December 2004

No.54
Masayoshi Honma
WTO Negotiations and Other Agricultural Trade Issues in Japan
December 2004

No.53
Robert E. Baldwin
Failure of the WTO Ministerial Conference at Cancun: Reasons and Remedies
December 2004

No.52
Manabu Ozeki
Taisyou Syoki no Sonmin Keizai Keisan:Yamanashiken Tyousonze niyoru Suikei no Kokoromi [in Japanese]
December 2004

No.51
Keiko Ito
Productivity, Keiretsu, and Agglomeration in the Japanese Automobile Industry:
An Empirical Analysis Based on Micro-Data of Census of Manufactures 1981-1996

December 2004

No.50
Kyoji Fukao and Hyeog Ug Kwon
Why Did Japan’s TFP Growth Slow Down in the Lost Decade?:
An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-Level Data of Manufacturing Firms

December 2004

No.48
Kyosuke Kurita
Keizai seityou, Fubyoudou, Hinkon: Thai, Phillipines no Kenbetsu Panel data ni yoru Keiryou Bunseki [in Japanese]
November 2004

No.47
Ho-il Moon
Chosen minsyusyugi jinmin kyowakoku Jinko suikei kenkyu note [in Japanese]
November 2004

No.46
Takashi Kurosaki and Humayun Khan
Effects of Human Capital on Farm and Non-Farm Productivity
and Occupational Stratification in Rural Pakistan

November 2004

No.47
Akira Uegaki
Tyousen Minsyusyugikyouwakoku jinKyuu Soren no Boueki Toukei no SITC Rev.3 eno Tenkan [in Japanese]
November 2004

No.45
Junko Shimizu and Eiji Ogawa
Risk Properties of AMU denominated Asian Bonds
November 2004

No.44
Eiji Ogawa and Takeshi Kudo
How much depreciation of the US dollar for sustainability of the current accounts?
November 2004

No.43
Akifumi Isogai, Satoru Kanoh, and Toshifumi Tokunaga
An Extension of the Markov-Switching Model with Time-Varying Transition Probabilities:
Bull-Bear Analysis of the Japanese Stock Market

November 2004

No.42
Kyoji Fukao, Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Qing-Yuan Sui and Masayo Tomiyama
Japanese Banks’ Monitoring Activities and the Performance of Borrower Firms: 1981-1996
October 2004

No.41
Kyoji Fukao, Keiko Ito and Hyeog Ug Kwon
Do Out-In M&As Bring Higher TFP to Japan?:
An Empirical Analysis Based on Micro-data on Japanese Manufacturing Firms

September 2004

No.40
Isao Ohashi
Wages, Hours of Work and Job Satisfaction of the Elderly
September 2004

No.39
Ralph Paprzycki and Kyoji Fukao
Overcoming economic stagnation in Japan:
The importance of total factor productivity and the potential contribution of foreign direct investment

August 2004

No.38
Naohito Abe and Taehun Jung
Cross-Shareholdings, Outside Directors, and Managerial Turnover:
The Case of Japan

August 2004

No.37
Naohito Abe and Tomoaki Yamada
Life-Cycle Model and Consumption: Structural Estimation of Precautionary and Life-Cycle Motives
[in Japanese]
August 2004

No.36
Hyeog Ug Kwon
International R&D Spillovers between Korean and Japanese Manufacturing Industries
August 2004

No.35
Takeo Hoshi and Anil K Kashyap
Solutions to the Japanese Banking Crisis:What might work and what definitely will fail
July 2004

No.34
Akira Uegaki
Kyuu Soren no Boueki Toukei no SITC Rev.3 eno Tenkan [in Japanese]
June 2004

No.33
Kyoji Fukao and Hyeog Ug Kwon
Japan’s Productivity and Economic Growth:an Empirical Analysis Based on Industry-Level and Firm-Level Data [in Japanese]
May 2004

No.32
Reiko Aoki and Sadao Nagaoka
The Consortium Standard and Patent Pools
May 2004

No.31
Ralph Paprzycki
What Caused the Recent Surge of FDI into Japan?
April 2004

No.30
Jian Wang & Yukihiko Kiyokawa
Senzen Chugoku no Toukei kikou to Seifu toukei [in Japanese]
April 2004

No.29
Tsutomu Miyagawa, Hideki Toya & Tatsuji Makino
Asia syokoku no kinkou kawase rate [in Japanese]
April 2004

No.28
Yoko Takahashi & Tatsuji Makino
Labor Input Data of the JIP Database
April 2004

No.27
Shigeru Ishiwata
Estimating Gross Value Added in Indonesian Manufacturing Industries, 1917-1940
April 2004

No.26
Masayuki Nakakuki, Akira Otani and Shigenori Shiratsuka
Distortions in Factor Markets and Structural Adjustments in the Economy
April 2004

No.25
Masahiro Abe and Isao Ohashi
Inter-Industry and Firm Size Effects on Wage Differentials and Efficiency Wages in Japan
April 2004


2003

No.24
Kyoji Fukao and Toshihiro Okubo
Why Has the Border Effect in the Japanese Market Declined?: The Role of Business Networks in East Asia
March 2004

No.23
Takashi Kurosaki, Ikuko Okamoto, Kyosuke Kurita and Koichi Fujita
Rich Periphery, Poor Center: Myanmar's Rural Economy under Partial Transition to a Market Economy
March 2004

No.22
Hak K Pyo, Keun- Hee Rhee, and Bong Chan Ha
Growth Accounting, Productivity Analysis, and Purchasing Power Parity in Korea (1984-2000)
March 2004

No.21
Hiromi Nosaka
The effects of land price on the quality of capital and maulti-factor productivity
March 2004

No.20
Joji Tokui
Gaishi sannyu ni yoru seisansei spillover kouka wa donoyouna sangyo de okorunoka (in Japanese)
March 2004

No.19
Kyoji Fukao, Tomohiko Inui, Hiroki Kawai & Tsutomu Miyagawa
Sectoral Productivity and Economic Growth in Japan, 1970-98: An Empirical Analysis Based on the JIP Database
March 2004

No.18
Hideki Toya, Kaoru Hosono & Tatsuji Makino
Human Capital, Migration, and Regional Income Convergence in the Philippines
March 2004

No.17
Norifumi Yukutake & Isao Ohashi
Kikon josei no rodo kyokyu kodo: Odanmen to jikeiretsu [in Japanese]
March 2004

No.16
Hyeog Ug Kwon
Productivity growth and R&D spillovers in Japanese manufacturing industry
February 2004

No.15
Hyeog Ug Kwon
Productivity Growth and R&D Spillovers from University to Industry
February 2004

No.14
Kazuyuki Motohashi
Firm level analysis of information network use and productivity in Japan
February 2004

No.13
Naohito Abe
Managerial Incentive Mechanisms and Turnover of Company Presidents and Directors in Japan
February 2004

No.12
Kyoji Fukao, Ximing Yue, Kozo Kiyota
Chugoku Shohinbetsu Boekitokei no Sakusei: 1952-1964nen oyobi 1981-2000nen [in Japanese]
January 2004

No.11
Naoya Katayama
Seasonally and Fractionally Differenced Time Series
January 2004, revised August 2006

No.10
Naoya Katayama
Asymptotic Prediction Mean Squared Error for Strongly Dependent Processes with Estimated Parameters
January 2004, revised September 2006

No.9
Kyoji Fukao, Debin Ma, Tangjun Yuan
Choki tokei ni okeru kokusai hikaku: 1934-36nen ni okeru nihon-taiwan-chosen no kobairyoku heika to jisshitsu suijun (International Comparison in Historical Perspective: Reconstructing the 1934-36 Benchmark Purchasing Power Parity for Japan, Korea and Taiwan) [in Japanese]
December 2003

No.8
Kyoji Fukao, Goushi Kataoka & Arata Kuno
How to Measure Non-tariff Barriers? A Critical Examination of the Price-Differential Approach
December 2003

No.7
Hiroaki Chigira & Taku Yamamoto
The Granger Non-Causality Test in Cointegrated Vector Autoregressions
December 2003

No.6
Eiji Ogawa & Kentaro Kawasaki
What should be weights on the three major currencies for a common currency basket in East Asia?
December 2003

No.5
Eiji Ogawa & Junko Shimizu
Trade-off for common currency basket denominated bonds in East Asia
December 2003

No.4
Kyoji Fukao & Yukako Murakami
Do Foreign Firms Bring Greater Total Factor Productivity to Japan?
October 2003

No.3
Keiko Ito & Kyoji Fukao
Physical and Human Capital Deepening and New Trade Patterns in Japan
November 2003

No.2
Osamu Saito
Wages, inequality and pre-modern growth in Japan, 1727-1894
December 2003

No.1
Taku Yamamoto & Eiji Kurozumi
Tests for Long-Run Granger Non-Causality in Cointegrated Systems
December 2003
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