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Competition between offline and online retailers with heterogeneous customers
Colombo, Stefano; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2019
We consider the spatial competition between two traditional physical (or offline) retailers and an Internet (or online) retailer where the efficiency of the latter differs from that of the former. We assume consumers are heterogeneous across two dimensions: (i) the costs of traveling to either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430010
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Does self-regulation of advertisement length improve consumer welfare?
Matsubae, Taisuke; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012
In Japan, TV platforms regulate themselves as to the length of the advertisements they air. Using modified Hotelling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332191
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Testing the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Ohtake, Fumio - 2004
workers' income satisfaction and work morale. This paper uses the current deflationary recession in Japan to estimate this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332192
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Do the elderly dissave in Japan?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2004
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332193
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Why are concavity conditions not satisfied in the cost function? The case of Japanese manufacturing firms during the bubble period
Ogawa, Kazuo - 2008
This paper examines empirically some of the reasons why Japanese manufacturing firms frequently fail to satisfy concavity conditions of the cost function. We focus on the 'bubble period' in the 1980s when land was in great demand for reasons related to both production and speculation, and land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332199
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Time discounting and smoking behavior under tax hikes
Kang, Myong-Il; Ikeda, Shinsuke - 2010
By combining our broad panel survey of Japanese adults from 2005 to 2008 and actual cigarette tax data, we investigate how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic discounting and the sign effect. Cigarette consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332205
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Does agency cost model explain business fluctuations in Japan? An empirical attempt to estimate agency cost by firm size
Ogawa, Kazuo; Uchiyama, Hirokuni - 2003
firms in Japan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332217
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Gender and culture in a threshold public goods game: Japan versus Canada
Cadsby, C. Bram; Hamaguchi, Yasuyo; Kawagoe, Toshiji; … - 2001
We compare male and female behavior in Japan and Canada in the context of a threshold public goods game with both a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332227
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332230
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Why did Japan's household savings rate fall in the 1990s?
Ogawa, Kazuo - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332236