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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 … television viewing rate for the race led to a 1% increase in the number of applicants for the universities participating in the … race. It follows that advertising universities on television would be effective in the university market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421473
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Social learning and delay in a dynamic model of price competition
Aoyagi, Masaki; Bhallay, Manaswini; Gunayz, Hikmet - 2014
This paper studies dynamic price competition over two periods between two firms selling differentiated durable goods to two buyers who are privately informed about their types, but have valuations of the two goods dependent on the other buyer's type. The firms' pricing strategy in period 1 must...
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Simultaneous Choice of Current Housing Tenure Choice and Anticipated Co-Residence with Children in Japan.
Seko, M - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1996
This analysis presents a joint logit probability model in which, for the first time, the household's current housing tenure choice and expected co-residence with its children are hypothesized to be simultaneously determined. Empirical analysis indicates that there is a positive correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602836
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The Effects of Demographics on the Japanese Housing Market.
Ohtake, F.; Shintani, M. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602847
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Uncertainty and Investment : Some Evidence from the Panel Data of Japanese Manufacturing Firms.
Ogawa, K; Suzuki, K - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1997
We analyse empirically the effect of uncertainty on fixed investment by estimating an accelerator-type investment function based on a panel data set of the Hapanese manufacturing firms. The uncertainty measure, represented by the conditional standard deviation of the sales ghrowth rate, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602861
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Education, Training and Labour Market Structure : Italy and Japan in Comparative Perspective.
Brunello, G; Ishikawa, T - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1996
This paper compares the Italian and the Japanese education systems and looks at the interaction between these systems and labour market outcomes. We model the Japanese labour market, characterised by the limited labour turnover and by the emphasis on hiring straight from school, and the Italian...
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Trends and Determinants of Japanese Saving Rates
Ogawa, K.; Abe, K. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1998
We project the future trends of the japanese saving rates with special emphasis on an analysis of the consumption and saving behavior of the household sector. Notable feature of our modeling is that savings are divided into financial and real savings components. This approach is useful since the...
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The Productivity Effects of Information Sharing, Profit-Sharing and ESOPs.
Ohkusa, Y; Ohtake, F - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1997
We obtained the results for Japanese firms on the effects of profit-sharing, information-sharing and ESOPs by estimating production functions using a panel data set. The contribution of this paper is to identify the presence of a profit-sharing system and an information sharing system by...
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Capital Gains in Japan: Their Magnitude and Imact on Consumption.
Horioka, C.Y. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1995
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Reflections on Indian Economic Development and Reform in the Light of Japan.
Sikdar, S. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1999
works on the development of Japan and South Korea, we identify three principal failures: (a) neglecting the traditional … government-business relationship. The political economy of these failures are explored and the contrast with Japan is highlighted. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602882