In this article, we quantitatively analyze changes in the size distribution of municipal jurisdictions in Japan by … using their rank-size distribution to capture the change. In Japan, the central government sometimes enacts large …-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of a certain size. Japan fs local governance policy allocates tax …

study bank mergers that have occurred in Japan since 2000 and find that banks reduce the loan amounts for firms with which … they have a close relationship and that banks' cumulative shareholding by the pre-merger banks is non-linearly related to … find that the cumulative equity stake held by pre-merger banks is non-linearly related to firms' subsequent performance …

Using the Japanese bank merger dataset for the 2000s, this paper investigates whether the reduction of the ownership … ratio by the blockholder affects companies' operating performance and bank-firm relationships. In Japan, banks are … subsequent operating performance has a non-linear relationship with the cumulative shareholding ratio in the pre-merger period …