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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 …

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Why is there discrimination against the elderly? Experimental and empirical analyses for the rental housing market in Japan

Nakagawa, Masayuki - 2003

Nakagawa(2001) and Nakagawa(2002) applies a fair housing audit technique to age discrimination in Japanese rental housing market, using data from the 2001 Osaka Audits. However, the experimental design of the study had some problems to be improved, e.g. lacked generality. This paper reports the...

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Japanese newspapers

Flath, David - 2012

In Japan, newspapers enjoy a special exemption from antimonopoly prohibitions against resale price maintenance … throughout Japan. In fact, the newspapers have rarely changed their subscription prices in recent years, and the three leading …

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Should the coinsurance rate be increased in the case of the common cold? An analysis based on an original survey

Ohkusa, Yasushi; Ii, Masako - 2002

This article examines the choice of health care in Japan by patients suffering from the common cold. Original data were …

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