SAITO (UMENO) Yukiko; Tsutomu, WATANABE; Mitsuru, IWAMURA - Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) - 2007
In this study, we investigate interfirm networks by employing a unique dataset containing information on more than 800,000 Japanese firms, about half of all corporate firms currently operating in Japan. First, we find that the number of relationships, measured by the indegree, has a fat-tail...