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Credit ratings in the Japanese bond market
Yamori, Nobuyoshi; Nishigaki, Narunto; Asai, Yoshihiro - 2006
Recently, credit ratings have been enhancing the influence on issuers as well as the national economy. This paper explains the historical development and several current features of the Japanese bond market, and discusses why credit ratings gained a significant role in the 1990s. We also present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332394
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Demand for Bank Loans Under Borrowing Constraints: A Panel Study of Japanese Firm Data.
Ogawa, K.; Suzuki K. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1996
We estimate a corporate demand model for bank loans on the basis of a panel data set of the Japanese corporations. What is novel is an explicit treatment of borrowing constraints in the estimation, which is formulated as a function of the land asset of the firms. The model is estimated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602899
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Credit Ratings in the Japanese Bond Market
Yamori, Nobuyoshi - 2006
Recently, credit ratings have been enhancing the influence on issuers as well as the national economy. This paper explains the historical development and several current features of the Japanese bond market, and discusses why credit ratings gained a significant role in the 1990s. We also present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733853
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Corporate real estate holding and stock returns: International evidence from listed companies
Ng, Joe Cho Yiu; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Chen, Suikang - 2022
This study examines the relationship between corporate real estate (CRE) holdings and stock returns before and after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We find that (1) the United States and the United Kingdom show a negative relationship before the GFC and positive after the GFC. (2) Firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013349601
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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