This is the first book to report the details of the current status of interfirm relationships in Japan. Based on a unique data set of firms, the authors describe the characteristics of interfirm transactions in a manner unprecedented in the literature. Special emphasis is placed on the nature of...

Chapter 1 The Economics of Interfirm Networks: Main Issues -- Part 1: Structure and Evolution of Interfirm Networks -- Chapter 2 Buyer-Supplier Networks and Aggregate Volatility -- Chapter 3 Community Structure of a Large-scale Production Network in Japan -- Chapter 4 Interfirm Networks in...

This paper examines location patterns of Japan’s manufacturing industries using a unique firm-level dataset on the geographic location of firms. Following the point-pattern approach proposed by Duranton and Overman (2005), we find the following. First, about half of Japan’s manufacturing...