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2009

245 Tainted Food, Low-Quality Products and Trade
by Jean Marie Viaene & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
244 Effect of Threats to Property Rights on Economic Performance of the Manufacturing Sector of Indian States
by Atsushi Kato & Takahiro Sato [Downloadable!]
243 Understanding Regional Growth Dynamics in JAPAN: Panel Cointegration Approach Utilizing The PANIC Method
by Masahiko Shibamoto & Yoshiro Tsutsui & Chisako Yamane [Downloadable!]
242 Is the Japanese Distribution System Becoming More Accessible to Foreign Firms?
by Ralf bebenroth & Nir Kshetri & Reinhard Hunerberg [Downloadable!]
241 Two-Way Outsourcing, International Migration, and Wage Inequality
by Morihiro Yomogida & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
240 Labor-Management Bargaining, Labor Standards and International Rivalry
by Jung Hur & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
239 Superiority of Exporters and the Causality Between Exporting and Firm Characteristics in Vietnam
by Nguyen Hiep & Hiroshi Ohta [Downloadable!]
238 Export Intensity and Impacts from Firm Characteristics, Domestic Competition and Domestic Constraints in Vietnam: A Micro-data Analysis
by Nguyen Hiep & Shoji Nishijima
237 Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms
by Richard E. Baldwin & Toshihiro Okubo [Downloadable!]
236 Behold the 'Behemoth'. The privatization of Japan Post Bank
by Uwe Vollmer & Diemo Dietrich & Ralf bebenroth [Downloadable!]
235 The Estimation of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve in Japan and Its Implication for the Inflation Response to a Monetary Policy Shock
by Masahiko Shibamoto [Downloadable!]
234 The UK Intranational Trade Cycle
by Michael Artis & Toshihiro Okubo [Downloadable!]

2008

233 Abnormal Accrual, Informed Trader, and Long-Term Stock Return: Evidence from Japan
by Katsuhiko Muramiya & Kazuhisa Otogawa & Tomomi Takada [Downloadable!]
232 Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission
by Michael Artis & Toshihiro Okubo [Downloadable!]
231 Greenhouse-gas Emission Controls and International Carbon Leakage through Trade Liberalization
by Jota ISHIKAWA & Toshihiro OKUBO [Downloadable!]
229 The spatial selection of heterogeneous firms
by Toshihiro Okubo & Pierre M. Picard & Jacques-FranÃ§ois Thisse [Downloadable!]
228 Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan
by Kris James Mitchener & Masato Shizume & Marc D. Weidenmier [Downloadable!]
227 Managerial Ownership and Accounting Conservatism: Empirical Evidence from Japan
by Akinobu Shuto & Tomomi Takada [Downloadable!]
225 R&D Partnerships and Capability of Innovation of Small and Medium-Sized Firms in Zhongguancun, Beijing: The Power of Proximity
by Nobuaki Hamaguchi & Yoshihiro Kameyama [Downloadable!]
223 Trade and Firm Heterogeneity In A Quality-Ladder Model of Growth
by Tetsugen Haruyama & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
221 The Intranational Business Cycle: Evidence from Japan
by Michael Artis & Toshihiro Okubo [Downloadable!]
220 Heterogeneous Quality Firms and Trade Costs
by Matthias Helble & Toshihiro Okubo [Downloadable!]
219 Understanding Output and Price Dynamics in Japan: Why Have Japan's Price Movements Been Relatively Stable Since the 1990s?
by Masahiko Shibamoto & Ryuzo Miyao [Downloadable!]
218 Aid Effectiveness Revisited: Comparative Studies of Modalities of Aid to Asia and Africa
by Hiroyuki Hino & Atsushi Iimi [Downloadable!]
217 Competing to Invest in the Foreign Market
by Laixun Zhao & Makoto Okamura [Downloadable!]
216 Cognitive Bias in the Laboratory Security Market -Differently Available Information and Equilibrium of Security Market-
by Hidetoshi Yamaji & Masatoshi Gotoh
215 Aging, transitional dynamics, and gains from trade
by Takumi Naito & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
214 Top Management Characteristics of Foreign MNC Affiliates and Affiliate Performance in Japan : Knowledge-Based and Upper Echelon Perspectives
by Tomoki Sekiguchi & Ralf Bebenroth & Donghao Li [Downloadable!]

2007

230 The Relative and Incremental Explanatory Powers of Dirty Surplus for Debt Interest Rate
by Akinobu Shuto & Shota Otomasa & Kazuyuki Suda [Downloadable!]
213 High Economic Growth, Equity and Sustainable Energy Development of India
by Ramprasad Sengupta [Downloadable!]
212 Efficacy of Fiscal Policy in Japan: Keynesian and Non-Keynesian Effects on Aggregate Demand
by Yusuke Kinari & Masahiko Shibamoto
211 Bank regulation and supervision in Japan and Germany: A comparison
by Ralf Bebenroth & Diemo Dietrich & Uwe Vollmer
210 Global Dynamics in Infinitely Repeated Games with Additively Separable Continuous Payoffs
by Takashi Kamihigashi & Taiji Furusawa [Downloadable!]
209 Globalization, Interregional and International Inequalities
by Dao-Zhi Zeng & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
208 A Reassessment of Japan's Monetary Policy during the Great Depression: The Constraints and Remedies
by Masato Shizume [Downloadable!]
207 Brand Agriculture and Economic Geography: A General Equilibrium Analysis
by Masahisa Fujita & Nobuaki Hamaguchi [Downloadable!]
206 Dense Communication and R&D in Knowledge-based Industrial Clusters: Comparative Study of Small & Medium-sized Firms in Korea and China
by Nobuaki Hamaguchi & Yoshihiro Kameyama [Downloadable!]
205 The Spirit of Capitalism, Stock Market Bubbles, and Output Fluctuations
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
204 Dilemma between new and existing technologies: Separation and coexistence of old and new technologies in the Television Development Division of Sony Corporation
by Atsushi Osanai [Downloadable!]
203 International Relocation, Difference in Production Costs, and Welfare: Analysis Based on the Two-Country Model
by Kohjiro Dohwa
202 Unionization Structure and the Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment
by Arijit Mukherjee & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
201 Sustainability of Public Debt: Evidence from Pre-World War II Japan
by Masato Shizume [Downloadable!]
200 On the Principle of Optimality for Nonstationary Deterministic Dynamic Programming
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]

2006

199 Immediately Reactive Equilibria in Infinitely Repeated Games with Additively Separable Continuous Payoffs
by Takashi Kamihigashi & Taiji Furusawa [Downloadable!]
198 Child Labor and Globalization
by Elias Dinopoulos & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
197 Pollution Havens and Industrial Agglomeration
by Dao-Zhi Zeng & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
196 An Empirical Test of the Efficiency Hypothesis on the Renminbi NDF in Hong Kong Market
by Hideki Izawa [Downloadable!]
195 Globalization, R&D and Endogenous Choice of Technology
by Fuat Sener & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
194 Sending Expatriates to Japan? Executive staffing practice patterns
by Ralf Bebenroth & Donghao Li [Downloadable!]
193 International Labor Standards and Southern Competition
by Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
192 Factor Price Equalization (FPE) Implies Product Quality Equalization (PQE)
by Satya P. Das & Seiichi Katayama [Downloadable!]
191 A Myth of "the Keynesian before Keynes:" Low Interest Rate Policy in the Early 1930s in Japan
by Masato Shizume [Downloadable!]
190 Japanese Horizontal Keiretsu and the Performance Implications of Membership
by Takehiko Isobe & Shige Makino & Anthony Goerzen [Downloadable!]
189 Stochastic Optimal Growth with Bounded or Unbounded Utility and with Bounded or Unbounded Shocks
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
188 A two-country dynamic model of international trade and endogenous growth: multiple balanced growth paths and stability
by Junko Doi & Kazuo Nishimura & Koji Shimomura [Downloadable!]
187 Indeterminacy in the free-trade world
by Junko Doi & Kazumichi Iwasa & Koji Shimomura [Downloadable!]
186 Bank of Japan versus Eurosystem: A Comparison of Monetary Policy Institutions and Conduct in Japan and in the Euro Area
by Ralf Bebenroth & Uwe Vollmer
185 Latin Americans of the Japanese Origin (Nikkeijin) Working in Japan --- A survey
by Junichi Goto [Downloadable!]
184 Deep Integration and Its Impacts on Nonmembers: EU Enlargement and East Asia
by Hiro Lee & Dominique van der Mensbrugghe [Downloadable!]
182 Communication Externalities on the Knowledge-based Firms in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study of China and Korea
by Nobuaki Hamaguchi & Yoshihiro Kameyama [Downloadable!]
181 A well-behaved utility function can generate Giffen behavior
by Junko Doi & Kazumichi Iwasa & Koji Shimomura
180 Transversality Conditions and Dynamic Economic Behavior
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
179 Performance Impact at the Board Level: Corporate Governance in Japan
by Ralf Bebenroth & Donghao Li [Downloadable!]

2005

226 Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?
by Edwin L.-C. Lai [Downloadable!]
224 Earnings Management to Exceed the Threshold: A Comparative Analysis of Consolidated and Parent-only Earnings
by Akinobu Shuto [Downloadable!]
222 Tax reform, delocation and heterogeneous firms: Base widening and rate lowering rule
by Richard E. Baldwin & Toshihiro Okubo [Downloadable!]
178 Sustainability or ruin of a common resource economy with random jump
by Masatoshi Fujisaki & Seiichi Katayama & Hiroshi Ohta [Downloadable!]
177 Common property resource and private capital accumulation with random jump
by Masatoshi Fujisaki & Seiichi Katayama & Hiroshi Ohta [Downloadable!]
176 Stochastic Optimal Growth with Bounded or Unbounded Utility and with Bounded or Unbounded Shocks
by Takashi Kamihigashi
175 Dynamic optimization with a nonsmooth, nonconvex technology: The case of a linear objective function
by Takashi Kamihigashi & Santanu Roy [Downloadable!]
174 Factor Analysis of Price Declines in the Digital Device Industry - Why Commoditization Occurs Under Conditions of Strong Demand?-
by Munehiko Itoh
173 A nonsmooth, nonconvex model of optimal growth
by Takashi Kamihigashi & Santanu Roy [Downloadable!]
172 German Corporate Governance Code and Unaccepted Recommendations
by Ralf Bebenroth
171 Falling Down Together? Japanese Keiretsu and the Performance Implications of Affiliation
by Takehiko Isobe & Shige Makino & Anthony Goerzen
168 Foreign Outsourcing, Exporting, and FDI: A Productivity Comparison at the Firm Level
by Eiichi Tomiura [Downloadable!]
167 Government Debt and Inflation Targeting in Brazil
by Shoji Nishijima [Downloadable!]
166 Cost Heterogeneity and the Destination of Foreign Direct Investment
by Seiichi Katayama & Sajal Lahiri & Eiichi Tomiura [Downloadable!]

2004

183 Consumer behavior in Japan and its structural change: Re-examination by sup-predictive test
by Masafumi Kozuka
165 An Evolutionary Analysis of Pre-Play Communication and Efficiency in Games
by Kenichi Amaya [Downloadable!]
164 Modularization for Product Competitiveness - Analysis of Modularization in the Digital Camera Industry -
by Munehiko Itoh [Downloadable!]
163 Use of Money Supply in the Conduct of Japan's Monetary Policy: Reexamining the Time Series Evidence
by Ryuzo Miyao [Downloadable!]
162 Necessity of the Transversality Condition for Stochastic Models with Bounded or CRRA Utility
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
161 Dynamic Optimization with a Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Technology: The Case of a Linear Objective Function
by Takashi Kamihigashi & Santanu Roy [Downloadable!]
160 Quantitative Assessments of U.S. Safeguards on Steel Products
by Hiro Lee & Dominique van der Mensbrugghe [Downloadable!]
159 Social Diversity, Fiscal Policy, and Economic Growth An Empirical Study with State Wise Data in India
by Atsushi Fukumi [Downloadable!]
157 Lead Markets, Innovation Differentials and Growth
by Marian Beise [Downloadable!]
156 China's Emergence and the Implications of Prospective Free Trade Agreements in East Asia
by Hiro Lee & David Roland-Holst & Dominique van der Mensbrugghe [Downloadable!]
155 Raising Wages to Deter Entry under Unionization
by Shingo Ishiguro & Laixun Zhao [Downloadable!]
154 National Environmental Policy and the Global Success of Next-Generation Automobiles
by Marian Beise & Klaus Rennings [Downloadable!]
153 The International Adoption of Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Is Japan a Lead Market?
by Marian Beise [Downloadable!]
152 Necessity of the Transversality Condition for Stochastic Models with Bounded or CRRA Utility
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
151 Economic Fundamentals or Financial Panic? An Empirical Study on the Origins of the Asian Crisis
by Ryuzo Miyao [Downloadable!]
150 A Factor Endowment Theory of Endogenous Growth and International Trade
by Yunfang Hu & Murray C. Kemp & Koji Shimomura [Downloadable!]
149 Indeterminacy in a Two-sector Endogenous Growth Model with Productive Government Spending
by Yunfang Hu & Ryoji Ohdoi & Koji Shimomura [Downloadable!]
148 The Marketing-product Development Interface - Information Acquisition for Product Development -
by Munehiko Itoh [Downloadable!]

2003

170 Almost sure convergence to zero in stochastic growth models
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
169 Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Imitation - An empirical examination of Japanese FDI in China -
by Kegang You & Seiichi Katayama [Downloadable!]
158 A Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Model of Optimal Growth
by Takashi Kamihigashi & Santanu Roy [Downloadable!]
147 Coordination and Evolutionary Network Formation with Asymmetric Link Costs: Part One
by Masakazu Fukuzumi [Downloadable!]
146 Latin American Export Specialization and Growth: An Inquiry into the Nature of Product Competition between Different Exporters
by Jorge Chami Batista [Downloadable!]
145 A Modified Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem under Quasi-Linear Utility Functions
by Kenji Fujiwara & Koji Shimomura [Downloadable!]
144 A Note on Transversality Conditions
by Ngo Van Long & Koji Shimomura [Downloadable!]
143 System Architecture Dynamics The case of Japanese Car Navigation Systems
by Munehiko Itoh [Downloadable!]
142 Assessing the Lead Market Potential of Countries for Innovation Projects
by Marian Beise & Thomas Cleff [Downloadable!]
141 Lead Markets: Drivers of the Global Diffusion of Innovations
by Marian Beise [Downloadable!]
140 Almost Sure Convergence to Zero in Stochastic Growth Models
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
139 A Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Model of Optimal Growth
by Takashi Kamihigashi & Santanu Roy [Downloadable!]
138 Firm-Level Relationship between Technological Capability and Foreign Direct Investment
by Eiichi Tomiura [Downloadable!]
137 Necessity of the Transversality Condition for Stochastic Models with CRRA Utility
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
136 The Economics and Politics of Administered Protection: An Analysis of the Japanese Safeguard System for Agricultural Goods
by Koichi Kagitani & Hirofumi Tominaga & Kozo Harimaya [Downloadable!]
135 The Number of Firms and the Politics of Export Subsidy
by Koichi Kagitani [Downloadable!]
134 The Origins of New Industries: The Case of the Mobile Internet
by Jeffrey L. Funk [Downloadable!]

2002

133 Changing economic geography and vertical linkages in Japan
by Eiichi Tomiura [Downloadable!]
132 Economic Preconditions for Monetary Integration in East Asia
by Junichi Goto [Downloadable!]
131 Market Economy Model of Chinese Management -Case of Haier-
by Hideki Yoshihara & Tao Hua Ou-yang [Downloadable!]
130 A Factor Endowment Theory of International Trade under Imperfect Competition and Increasing Returns
by Kenji Fujiwara & Koji Shimomura
129 Determinants of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Adoption and Integration in the US and Japanese Automobile Suppliers
by Sam Kurokawa & Seiji Manabe [Downloadable!]
128 Necessity of Transversality Conditions for Stochastic Problems
by Takashi Kamihigashi [Downloadable!]
127 Liquidity Trap and the Stability of Money Demand: Is Japan Really Trapped at the Zero Bound?
by Ryuzo Miyao [Downloadable!]
126 In Search of Marketing Excellence: Strategy of the Leading Japanese Companies
by Kenji Kojima
125 The Fall of 'Companyism' in Japanese Corporate System
by Kenji Kojima

2001

124 Decline of Japan's Predominance in Asia
by Hideki Yoshihara [Downloadable!]
123 A Two-Country Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Endogenous Growth and International Trade
by Doi, J. & Shimomura, K.
122 Currency Crises in Asia and Latin America: A Comparison
by Nishijima, S.
121 Prospects for Closer Economic Relations between Latin America and Asia
by Hosono, A. & Nishijima, S.
120 The Impact of Import Competition on Japanese Manufacturing Employment
by Tomiura, T.
119 A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Interplay between Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Adjustments
by Lee, H. & van der Mensbrugghe, D.
118 Japanese Direct Investment in Latin America in the Nineties
by Tonooka, E.K.
117 Trade and Indeterminacy in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model
by Shimomura, K. & Nishimura, K.
116 A Simple Proof of the Necessity of the Transversality Condition
by Kamihigashi, T.

2000

115 Necessity of Transversality Conditions for Stochastic Problems
by Kamihigashi, T.
114 FSC Certification in Japan: An Uncertain Future
by Kajiwara, A.
113 Regulation on Gene Diagnosis and Non-Existence of Equilibrium in the Lif/Medical Insurance Market
by Soga, N.
112 Existence of an Asymmetric Information Structure in Gene Diagnosis -the Mechanism by which Genetic Discrimination is Induced-
by Soga, N.
111 A Differential Game Model of Tariff War
by Kemp, M.C. & Van Long, N. & Shimomura, K.
110 Commitments and Contests: a Game-Theoretic Perspective on Japanese Vertical Relationships
by Kojima, K.
109 International Migration and Trade Liberalization
by Goto, J.

1999

108 Glibal Operationsa Managed by Japanese and in Japanese
by Hideki Yoshihara
107 The Effects of Monetary Policy in Japan
by Ryuzo Miyao
106 Long-Term Cooperation in Japanese Vertical Relationships
by Kenji Kojima
105 Transfer Paradox and Indeterminacy in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of International Trade
by Koji Shimomura
104 A Dynamic Conjectural Variations Model in the Private Provision of Public Goods: a Differential Game Approach
by Itaya, J.-I. & Shimomura, K.
103 "General Equilibrium Assessments of Trade Liberalization in APEC Countries"
by Lee, H. & Roland-Holst, D. & van der Mensbrugghe, D.
102 Indeterminancy in a Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model
by Nishimura, K. & Shimomura, K.
101 "Organizational Leaning Through Reverse Transfer of R&D: Perspectives of the Japanese Overseas Subsidiary"
by Methe, D.T. & Yoshihara, H.
100 Sustainability in Resource Economies: Revisited
by Katamaya, S.

1998

99 Non-Performing Assets of Banks and Financial Intermediation: Experiences of Japan in the Inter-War Period
by Kasuya, M.
98 Japanese Supplier Relations: A Comparative Perspective
by Kojima, K.
97 Note on the Paradigm Shift in Natural Resource Management in the USA
by Kajawara, A.
96 Policy Analysis of Estate Tax Exemption Reform Related to Conservation of Timber Resources in USA
by Kajawara, A.
95 A Second Elementary Proposition Concerning the Formation of Customs Unions
by Kemp, M.C. & Shimomura, K.
94 Note on the Stability of Long-Run Money Demand: Is the Interest Elasticity Really Constant?
by Miyao, R.
93 "Structural Changes of the Financial System and Corporate Governance in Japan"
by Kojima, K.
92 Japanse Corporate Governance in Transition
by Kojima, K.
91 Shifts in the Japanese Corporate Governance
by Kojima, K.
90 Overcoming a Standard Bearer: Challenges to NEC's Personal Computer in Japan
by Methe, D. & Miyabe, J. & Toyama, R. & Mitchell, W.
89 A Tale of Two PC Industries: Technology, Environment and Managerial Action In Shaping the Japanese and US Personal Computer Industry
by Methe, D. & Miyabe, J. & Toyama, R.
88 The Kemp-Wan Proposition under Increasing Returns to Scale and Oligopolistic Competition
by Kemp, M.C. & Shimomura, K.

1997

87 Chaotic Equilibria in a Small Open Overlapping Generations Economy with Child-Parent Externality
by Nishimura, K. & Shimomura, K.
86 Foreign Direct Investment, Technological Capabilities and Performance in the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry
by White, S. & Liu X. & Yoshihara, H.
85 Organizational Dynamics and Strcuture in the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry: A Technological System Perspective
by White, S.
84 Imperfect Substitutes and Trade Policy under Cournot Duopoly
by Katayama, S. & OhtaKobe, H.
83 Alternative Transition Trajectories for Complementary Asset Markets in China's Pharmaceutical Industry
by Liu, X. & White, S.
82 Factor Income Function and Oligopolistic Heckscher-Ohlin Model in Internationl Trade
by Shimomura, K.
81 Long-Term Commitment in Japanese Vertical relations
by Kojima, K.
80 Education, Moral Hazard, and Endogenous Growth
by Van Long, N. & Shimomura, K.
79 Adaptive Capacity: Linking New Know-How to Innovation and Financial Performance in Late-Follower Firms
by White, R.S.
78 Sustainability in Small Open Economies Under Uncertainty
by Katayama, S. & Ohta, H.
77 Trade Gains in Chaotic Equilibrium
by Kemp, M.C. & Shimomura, K.
76 Regional Economic Integration and Agricultural Trade
by Goto, J.
75 technology Acquisition Choices by State-Owned Entreprises in Transition Economies
by White, R.S.
74 Japanese Financial Relationships in Transition
by Kojima, K.
73 The influence of New 3-D CAD Systems on Knowledge Creation in Product Development
by Nobeoka, K.

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