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Industrial concentration, price-cost margins, and innovation

Flath, David - 2009

This paper explores a panel data set matching establishment-based production statistics from Japan’s Census of … Manufacturers with wholesale price indices from the Bank of Japan, and Herfindahl indices from the Japan Fair Trade Commission. The …

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Sectoral inflation persistence, market concentration and imperfect common knowledge

Kato, Ryo; Okuda, Tatsushi; Tsuruga, Takayuki - 2020

Previous studies have stressed that in ation dynamics exhibit a substantial disper- sion across sectors. Using US producer price data, we present evidence that sectoral in ation persistence is negatively correlated with market concentration, which is diffi- cult to reconcile with the prediction...

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Import competition and industry location in a small-country model of productivity growth

Davis, Colin R.; Hashimoto, Ken'ichi - 2019

We study the effects of import competition on industry locations patterns in a small open economy with two regions. Domestic productivity growth converges to the international rate through firm-level investment in process innovation. With firms locating production and innovation in their lowest...

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Organizational structure and technological investment

Macho-Stadler, Inés; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, … - 2019

We analyze firms' decisions to adopt a vertical integrated or decentralized structure taking into account the characteristics of both the final good competition and the R&D process. We consider two vertical chains, where R&D is conducted by upstream sectors. R&D investment determines the...

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Market concentration and incentives to collude in Cournot oligopoly experiments

Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Masiliūnas, Aidas - 2021

Multiple Cournot oligopoly experiments found more collusive behavior in markets with fewer firms (Huck et al., 2004; Horstmann et al., 2018). This result could be explained by a higher difficulty to coordinate or by lower incentives to collude in markets with more firms. We show that the Quantal...

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Unionization, industry concentration, and economic growth

Davis, Colin R.; Hashimoto, Ken'ichi; Tabata, Ken - 2021

This paper examines how unionization affects economic growth through its impact on industry concentration in a two-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in innovation with geographic patterns of industry...

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A four country comparison of spite, cooperation and errors in voluntary contribution mechanisms

Brandts, Jordi (contributor); Saijō, Tatsuyoshi (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution …

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Financial distress and corporate investment : the Japanese case in the 90s

Ogawa, Kazuo (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We examine quantitatively the extent to which financial distress in the 90s affected Japanese corporate investment. Based on the firm-level data that includes small, unlisted firms, we estimate investment function to measure the impact of financial distress on investment. We find that the...

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An empirical study of alcoholic consumption and labor productivity in Japan

Satō, Masayoshi (contributor); Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

confirmed. Moreover, an awareness of appropriate alcohol consumption supports the sixth strategy of the Health Japan 21 policy … ; Income Effect ; Health Promotion Policy ; Health Japan 21 ; Policy Evaluation …

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Updated horizontal inequity in health care utilization in Japan : comparisons with OECD countries using an original survey

Ōkusa, Yasushi (contributor); Honda, Chika (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We compare health care inequity in Japan with that in other OECD countries in 2002 and 2003. To overcome Japanese data … health care inequity for Japan. We test the utilization measure by the number of outpatients, the number of days of inpatient … utilization, but out-ofpocket payments show significant pro-rich inequity. -- Horizontal Inequity ; Japan ; International …

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