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FY2010 Discussion Papers

No. 185

Nuttapon Photchanaprasert

Innovation and Production Offshoring: Implications on Welfare

March 2011

No. 184

Daiji Kawaguchi and Tetsushi Murao

Who Bears the Cost of the Business Cycle?
Labor-Market Institutions and Volatility of the Youth Unemployment Rate

March 2011

No. 183

Hiroyuki Okamuro and Junichi Nishimura

A Hidden Role of Public Subsidy in University-Industry Research Collaborations

March 2011

No. 182

Kazuhiro Kumo

Tajik Labour Migrants and their Remittances: Is Tajik Migration Pro-Poor?

March 2011

No. 181

Shun-ichiro Bessho and Masayoshi Hayashi

Should Japanese Tax System Be More Progressive?

March 2011

No. 180

Jota Ishikawa, Kazuharu Kiyono, and Morihiro Yomogida

Is Emission Trading Beneficial?

March 2011

No. 179

Kiminori Matsuyama

Institution-Induced Productivity Differences and Patterns of International Capital Flows

March 2011

No. 178

Yoonseock Lee

The Statistical System of the Governor-General of Korea
(in Japanese)

March 2011

No. 177

Kyoji Fukao, Tsutomu Miyagawa, Hak K. Pyo, and Keun Hee Rhee

Estimates of Total Factor Productivity, the Contribution of ICT, and Resource Reallocation Effects in Japan and Korea

March 2011

No. 176

Kenichi Fukushima

Quantifying the Welfare Gains from Flexible Dynamic Income Tax Systems

March 2011

No. 175

Makoto Nakajima

A Quantitative Analysis of Unemployment Benefit Extensions

March 2011

No. 174

Julian di Giovanni and Akito Matsumoto

The Value of Human Capital Wealth

March 2011

No. 173

Ryo Jinnai

News Shocks, Price Levels, and Monetary Policy

March 2011

No. 172

Daisuke Nagakura

How Are Shocks to Trend and Cycle Correlated? A Simple Methodology for Unidentified Unobserved Components Models

March 2011

No. 171

Shigeru Iwata and Han Li

Why Are Trend Cycle Decompositions of Alternative Models So Different?

March 2011

No. 170

Ryota Yabe

Limiting Distribution of the Score Statistic under Moderate Deviation from a Unit Root in MA(1)

February 2011

No. 169

Takashi Kurosaki

Compilation of Agricultural Production Data in Areas Currently in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh from 1901/02 to 2001/02

February 2011

No. 168

Kyoji Fukao, Tomohiko Inui, Keiko Ito, YoungGak Kim, and Tangjun Yuan

An International Comparison of the TFP Levels and the Productivity Convergence of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, and Chinese Listed Firms (Extended Version)

February 2011

No. 167

Yoko Oguro

The Sensitivity of Export Quantities to Exchange Rates in the Context of Intra-Industry Trade

February 2011

No. 166

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Ralph Ossa

A Global View of Productivity Growth in China

February 2011

No. 165

Takeshi Nishimura

Incomplete Procurement Contracting with a Risk-Averse Agent

January 2011

No. 164

Yasuhiro Hara

Examination of Mining Production Data in Korea under Japanese Occupation
(in Japanese)

January 2011

No. 163

Osamu Saito

The Economic History of the Restoration Period, 1853-1885

January 2011

No. 162

Tsutomu Miyagawa

Economic Slowdown in Japan and the Role of Intangible Assets on the Revitalization of the Japanese Economy

January 2011

No. 161

Hun-Chang Lee

Internal Reasons for the Colonization of Korea in 1910
(in Japanese)

January 2011

No. 160

Kazuya Kikuchi

Privately Informed Parties and Policy Divergence

January 2011

No. 159

Richard Baldwin

Unilateral Tariff Liberalization

January 2011

No. 158

Koichi Tadenuma and Yongsheng Xu

The Walrasian Distribution of Opportunity Sets: An Axiomatic Characterization

December 2010

No. 157

Toshio Honda

Nonparametric Quantile Regression with Heavy-Tailed and Strongly Dependent Errors

December 2010 (Revised: July 2011)

No. 156

Shinya Tanaka and Eiji Kurozumi

Investigating Finite Sample Properties of Estimators for Approximate Factor Models When N Is Small

December 2010

No. 155

Junichi Nishimura and Yosuke Okada

R&D Portfolios and Pharmaceutical Licensing

November 2010

No. 154

Hao Feng and Ming Lu

School Quality and Housing Prices:
Empirical Evidence Based on a Natural Experiment in Shanghai, China

November 2010

No. 153

Eiji Ogawa and Junko Shimizu

AMU and Monetary Cooperation in Asia

October 2010

No. 152

Kazuyasu Sakamoto

The Effects of Work-Life Balance Systems on Fathers' Housework and Child-rearing Time: An Analysis Using a Labor Union's Survey
(in Japanese)

October 2010

No. 151

Martina Battisti and Hiroyuki Okamuro

Selling, Passing on or Closing? Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions on Exit Modes

October 2010

No. 150

Yukinobu Kitamura and Takeshi Miyazaki

The Elasticity of Taxable Income and the Optimal Income Tax Rate in Japan: Evidence from the Japanese Household Microdata
(in Japanese)

August 2010 (Revised: September 2010)

No. 149

Yukinobu Kitamura and Taisuke Uchino

The Effect of Academic Background on Household Portfolio Selection: Evidence from Japanese Repeated Cross Section Data

August 2010

No. 148

Kiminori Matsuyama

Endogenous Ranking and Equilibrium Lorenz Curve Across (ex-ante) Identical Countries

August 2010

No. 147

Hiromi Hara

The Incidence and Impact of Firm-Provided Training among Japanese Non-Regular Workers
(in Japanese)

July 2010

No. 146

Kazuya Wada

Effects of Land Holding on School Enrollment in Rural Kenya
(in Japanese)

July 2010

No. 145

Eiji Ogawa

Regional Monetary Coordination in Asia after the Global Financial Crisis: Comparison in Regional Monetary Stability between ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+3+3

June 2010

No. 144

Eiji Kurozumi and Purevdorj Tuvaandorj

Model Selection Criteria in Multivariate Models with Multiple Structural Changes

June 2010

No. 143

Osamu Saito and Tokihiko Settsu

Unveiling Historical Occupational Structures and its Implications for Sectoral Labour Productivity Analysis in Japan's Economic Growth

June 2010

No. 142

Larry D. Qiu and Wen Zhou

Trade, Capital Redistribution and Firm Structure

June 2010

No. 141

Jota Ishikawa and Toshihiro Okubo

Environmental Standards under International Oligopoly

June 2010

No. 140

Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama, and Kala Krishna

A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model

June 2010

No. 139

Maki Michinaka and Takahiro Ito

Multidimensional Poverty Rankings based on Pareto Principle: A Practical Extension

May 2010

No. 138

Jean-Pascal Bassino, Kyoji Fukao, Ralph Paprzycki, Tokihiko Settsu, and Tangjun Yuan

Regional Inequality and Industrial Structures in Pre-War Japan: An Analysis Based on New Prefectural GDP Estimates

May 2010

No. 137

Koichi Tadenuma

Partnership-Enhancement and Stability in Matching Problems

May 2010

No. 136

Jota Ishikawa, Hodaka Morita, and Hiroshi Mukunoki

FDI in Post-Production Services and Product Market Competition

April 2010

No. 135

Keiya Eto

An Examination of the Statistical Data Sources of the Philippines: Notes on Estimating the Historical GDP of the Primary Industry (2)
(in Japanese)

April 2010

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