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Explaining the regional distribution of new economy firms: a count data analysis

Dohse, Dirk; Schertler, Andrea - 2003

Although there is a host of literature on the locational choice of traditional economy firms, relatively little is known about the locational needs and preferences of new economy firms. Therefore, the current paper provides an empirical analysis of the factors determining the regional...

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Driving Forces of Venture Capital Investments in Europe: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Schertler, Andrea - 2003

Using dynamic panel estimations, this paper identifies driving forces of venture capital activity for Western European countries. Driving forces might be the liquidity of stock markets, human capital endowment, and labour market rigidities. The paper shows that these factors do not affect...

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Sources of Funds and Specialization Patterns of European Venture Capital Investments

Schertler, Andrea - 2004

This paper analyses the link between venture capitalists' sources of funds, such as banks and pension funds, and the specialization pattern of venture capital investments in particular industries and particular stages of enterprises' development. Based on a panel data set of Western European...

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Koizumi carried the day: Did the Japanese election results make people happy and unhappy?

Tsutsui, Yoshiro; Kimball, Miles; Ohtake, Fumio - 2007

This paper investigates whether Japanese people were happy and unhappy with the general election conducted on September 11, 2005, in which the Prime Minister, Koizumi, won a landslide victory. We conducted a large survey just after the election to ask people how happy they were and which party...

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Are Japanese households financially healthy, and if so, why? A Group of Seven (G7) comparison

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012

wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were … the highest among the G7 countries, at least until 2000, household assets were also high in Japan, as a result of which … household net worth and financial health in Japan were among the highest in the G7 countries. Turning to long-term trends in …

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Measurement of social preference from utility-based choice experiments

Yamada, Katsunori; Sato, Masayuki; Nakamoto, Yasuhiro - 2009

Ever since the classical works of Smith and Veblen, economists have recognized that individuals care about their relative positions and status in addition to their own consumption. This paper addresses a new framework of choice experiments in order to specify the shape of utility function with...

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An empirical study of alcoholic consumption and labor productivity in Japan

Sato, Masayo; Ohkusa, Yasushi - 2003

confirmed. Moreover, an awareness of appropriate alcohol consumption supports the sixth strategy of the Health Japan 21 policy …

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Debt, R&D investment and technological progress: A panel study of Japanese manufacturing firms in the 90s

Ogawa, Kazuo - 2004

Based on a panel data set of Japanese manufacturing firms in research-intensive industries, we investigate quantitatively the extent to which debt outstandings in the 90s affected the firm's R&D activities. We find that massive debt outstandings had significantly negative effect on R&D...

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Recent trends in consumption in Japan and the other Group of Seven (G7) countries

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012

Japan, we find that private consumption has been relatively stagnant during the 2002-07 period and that the stagnation of …

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The dissaving of the aged revisited: The case of Japan

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2006

In this paper, I survey the previous literature on the saving behavior of the aged in Japan and then present some … survey data on the saving behavior of the aged in Japan that became available recently. To summarize the main findings of … that this model is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …

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