made in Japan which appear to be the least expensive to maintain. However, the elastic-ities of maintenance expenditures …This paper derives a model of maintenance expenditures from an analytical framework in which maintenance, utilization … relevant literature as important determinants of maintenance expenditures. Also the model yields sharp sign predictions for the …

We draw on three strands of literature dealing with utilization, maintenance, and scrapping in order to analyze the … intensity of its utilization and maintenance; second, by ex-panding on the range of explainable operating policies to allow for …

We draw on three strands of literature dealing with utilization, maintenance, and scrapping in order to analyze the … intensity of its utilization and maintenance; second, by ex-panding on the range of explainable operating policies to allow for …

The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in …

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly …

This paper examines the exchange rate pass-through to yen based manufactured import prices of Japan using asymmetric … shown that the recession in Japan in the 1990s has significantly affected the exchange rate passthrough relationship …

-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in … the pre-WWII growth of Japan, Southeast Asia's growth in the 1970s and the 1980s, and its economic crisis in the mid-1990s. …

common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … two major countries in the region, in the arrangement, China and Japan would have centered roles in promoting economic … cooperation in East Asia. However, it is practically impossible to decide either China or Japan is capable of taking the …