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The degree of judicial enforcement and credit markets: Evidence from Japanese household panel data
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Sekita, Shizuka - 2009
In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of better judicial enforcement on the probability of being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, conducted by the Institute for Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332377
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The economic costs of court decisions concerning dismissals in Japan: Identification by judge transfers
Okudaira, Hiroko - 2009
The goal of this paper is to detect the degree to which court decisions control the stringency of employment protection and to investigate how such judicial discretion affects labor market performance. However, identification difficulty arises because court decisions are volatile against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332512
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The Degree of Judicial Enforcement and Credit Markets : Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2010
In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of better judicial enforcement on the probability of being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, conducted by the Institute for Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149663
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First-to-invent versus first-to-file: International patent law harmonization and innovation
Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2007
The U.S. has been under pressure to abandon the unique first-to-invent feature of its patent law for awarding patents. The opposition to reform however argues that switch to a first-to-file rule, the international norm, will undermine innovation. We evaluate this argument in a dynamic stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332206
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First-to-Invent Versus First-to-File : International Patent Law Harmonization and Innovation
Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2015
The U.S. has been under pressure to abandon the unique first-to-invent feature of its patent law for awarding patents. The opposition to reform however argues that switch to a first-to-file rule, the international norm, will undermine innovation. We evaluate this argument in a dynamic stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221708
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Recent competition in the Japanese life insurance industry
Souma, Toshiyuki; Tsutsui, Yoshiro - 2005
This paper examines a change in the level of competition in the Japanese life insurance industry over the last 17 years …. We estimate the first order condition for profit-maximizing insurance oligopolies to obtain the degree of non … Insurance Industry Law and failures of insurance companies promoted the competition; and 4) the competition in the recent years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332256
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Intended Bequest Motives Savings and Life Insurance Demand.
Chuma, H. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602906
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Population Aging and Consumption Inequality.
Ohtake, F; Saito, M - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1997
This paper analyses how the cross-sectional dispersion of consumption within a fixed cohort grows with age using Japanese household microdata.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602910
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An Empirical Research of Substitutability between Medical Services and Over-the-Counter Medication. An Analysis of Thirteen Different Minor Ailments.
Li, M.; Ohkusa, Y. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000
This paper examines the choice of health care for minor aliments in Japan for patients suffering from thirteen different minor aliments. Original data were obtained from a survey conducted by the authors. For the common cold, shoulder/neck pain, backache, constipation/diarrea, asthenopia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458110
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A Coordination Game Model of Charitable Giving and Seed Money Effect
Hatsumi, Kentaro - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2009
If potential donors for a charity project possess the warm-glow properties in their preferences, we can represent their behavior with a coordination game. Accordingly, we construct a simultaneous incomplete information game model of charitable giving based on a simple global coordination game....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024142