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On the Theory of Exhaustible Resources : Ricardo Vs. Hotelling
Kurz, Heinz; Salvadori, Neri - 2009
The paper compares, and eventually combines, the approaches of Harold Hotelling and David Ricardo to the theory of exhaustible resources. It is argued that Hotelling and Ricardo had in mind worlds that differ in important respects. According to Ricardo the exploitation of deposits of resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203086
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Adam Smith's Answer to the Feldstein-Horioka Paradox : The Invisible Hand Revisited
Yasutomi, Ayumu - 2010
In this paper, we show that Adam Smith pointed out the existence of the Feldstein-Horioka Paradox or Puzzle and even gave an explanation for it more than 200 years before the publication of Feldstein and Horioka (1980). Smith argues that it is the pursuit of their own security that leads owners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142996
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The hidden curriculum and social preferences
Ito, Takahiro; Kubota, Kohei; Ohtake, Fumio - 2015
This paper examines the effects of school curricula on subsequent preference formation. The estimation results, using Japanese data, show that the actual curriculum at public elementary schools varies widely from area to area and is associated with preference formation. Specifically, pupils who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421459
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Relative income position and happiness: Are cabinet supporters different from others in Japan?
Yamamura, Eiji; Tsutsui, Yoshiro; Ohtake, Fumio - 2015
During the period of 2001-2006, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) adopted a market-oriented policy under the Koizumi cabinet. In 2006, following the formation of the first Abe cabinet, the LDP returned to a traditional redistributive policy. We assume that the supporters of the Koizumi cabinet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421464
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Is university sports an advertisement in the higher education market? An analysis of the Hakone long-distance relay road race in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - 2015
's sporting event in Japan. The event is held immediately prior to the university application period in Japan. Using Japanese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421473
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Explaining foreign holdings of Asia's debt securities: The Feldstein-Horioka paradox revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko; Nomoto, … - 2015
the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia showing relatively weak home bias and advanced Asia, especially Japan … capital has been flowing from the US and the Eurozone economies to both advanced Asia (especially Japan) and developing Asia … reasons. The main reason in the case of advanced Asia (especially Japan) appears to be higher riskadjusted returns, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421476
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IS imbalances and current account surpluses in Japan: In memory of Professor Ronald I. McKinnon
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2015
In this paper, I find (1) that Japan showed massive and persistent current account surpluses from at least 1981 and … until at least 2011, (2) that Professor Ronald McKinnon was correct, at least in the case of Japan, and that these large and … persistent current account surpluses were due primarily to Japan's large and persistent IS imbalances (the excess of saving over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421478
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Activity, time, and subjective happiness: An analysis based on an hourly web survey
Sakawa, Hideaki; Ohtake, Fumio; Tsutsui, Yoshiro - 2015
This paper investigates how people's happiness depends on their current activities and on time. We conducted an hourly web survey, in which 70 students reported their happiness every hour on one day every month from December 2006 to February 2008. This method is an extension of the experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421487
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Happiness before and after an election: An analysis based on a daily survey around Japan's 2009 election
Kinari, Yusuke; Ohtake, Fumio; Kimball, Miles; … - 2015
. Estimating a fixed effects model, we found that supporters of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the winner, became … significantly happier, and supporters of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) and New Komeito, the losers, became …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421503
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Growth, secular stagnation and wealth preference
Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2015
In 1960s - 1980s Japan enjoyed high economic growth. In the early 1990s, however, the growth rate drastically declined … and thereafter Japan has been suffering secular stagnation. This paper proposes a dynamic macroeconomic model that can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421505