In Japan, TV platforms regulate themselves as to the length of the advertisements they air. Using modified Hotelling …

workers' income satisfaction and work morale. This paper uses the current deflationary recession in Japan to estimate this …

In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando's seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …

firms in Japan. …

We compare male and female behavior in Japan and Canada in the context of a threshold public goods game with both a …

This paper investigates empirically why Japan's household savings rate fell in the 1990s. We constructed an economic … the proportion of liquidity-constrained households increased sharply in the late 1990s, which led to a decline in Japan …

), describe and evaluate the past and present structure of personal taxes in Japan, and based on our findings, make a number of … policy recommendations about how to reform personal taxes in Japan. We find that the structure of Japan's current consumption … improves both the efficiency and equity of Japan's personal taxes and, at the same time, achieves fiscal reconstruction. …