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Nonlinear pricing of Japanese newspapers

Flath, David - 2012

In Japan, the newspapers with the greatest daily circulation offer both morning and evening editions in most of their …

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Homo economicus vs. human being: Outcomes of irrationality

Yamane, Shoko; Yoneda, Hiroyasu; Tsutsui, Yoshiro - 2012

This paper investigates the individual outcomes of irrational thinking, including paranormality and non-scientific thinking. These modes of thinking are identified by factor analysis from a 2008 survey. Income and happiness are used as measures of performance. Empirical results reveal that...

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Imperfect competition, state trading and Japan's imports of rice

MacLaren, Donald - 2011

In the negotiations on agriculture in the World Trade Organization, it was asserted that an importing state trading enterprise affects the domestic market but not the international market. This claim is investigated through specifying a model of intermediaries in international trade. There are...

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Altruism and the care of elderly parents: Evidence from Japanese families

Kohara, Miki; Ohtake, Fumio - 2006

This paper analyzes what adult children would do for their parents were they frail and in need of long-term care. Focusing on the special case of parents' illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive statistics show that about 30% of adult children living...

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Efficiency versus economy of time in multi-unit descending auction: The role of 'mari' at flower markets in Japan

Kitahara, Minoru; Ogawa, Ryo - 2010

The auctioning rule in Japanese flower markets is a slightly modi-fied version of that of the original Dutch flower auction. At Japaneseflower markets, there is an additional stage, called 'mari', where buyers who lost in the previous auction can apply for purchasing the remainder of flowers at...

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Measurement of social preference from utility-based choice experiments

Yamada, Katsunori; Sato, Masayuki; Nakamoto, Yasuhiro - 2009

Ever since the classical works of Smith and Veblen, economists have recognized that individuals care about their relative positions and status in addition to their own consumption. This paper addresses a new framework of choice experiments in order to specify the shape of utility function with...

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Does a large loss of bank capital cause ever-greening or flight to quality? Evidence from Japan

Watanabe, Wako - 2004

Constructing a strong and unique instrument for bank capital from the empirical observation of Japanese banks' past behavioral changes, we identify the impact of capital adequacy on the allocation of bank lending supply across low quality and high quality borrowers. We find that, in FY 1997, a...

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Aging, saving, and public pensions in Japan

Horioka, Charles Yuji; Suzuki, Wataru; Hatta, Tatsuo - 2007

We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the … impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan …'s population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan …

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Procrastinators and hyperbolic discounters: Probability of transition from temporary to full-time employment

Leea, SunYoun; Ohtake, Fumio - 2012

results indicate that TAW for employees in Japan is more likely to function as a dead-end rather than stepping stone toward …

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Are the Japanese unique? An analysis of consumption and saving behavior in Japan

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2004

In this paper, I conduct an analysis of consumption and saving behavior in Japan, looking both at trends over time and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332312