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Protective Trade Policies 'Reduce' Employment : A Dynamic Optimization Approach

Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2006

Using a competitive two-country two-commodity monetary model with optimizing agents in which persistent unemployment arises, this paper examines the effects of trade restrictions on consumption and employment in the two countries. When facing unemployment, a country tends to impose an import...

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Development Accounting and International Trade

Ishise, Hirokazu - 2015

Development accounting shows that a significant part of cross-country income differences is attributed to differences in total factor productivity (TFP), but the sources of TFP differences are not well understood. This paper considers the role of international trade to explain cross-country...

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Long-Term Effect of International Trade on the Gender Wage and Educational Gaps

Yamamura, Eiji - 2016

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...

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The byrd amendment as facilitating a tacit international business collusion

Ogawa, Yoshitomo; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2006

We analyze the effect of the Byrd Amendment, which amended the US Tariff Act of 1930 to allow revenue from antidumping duties to be distributed to domestic import-competing firms. In an international duopoly framework it is shown that it urges the home firm to restrict output so that the foreign...

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Weakly Nonseparable Preference and the Current Account: Yes, There is a Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect.

Ikeda, S. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

We examine the current account effect of a terms-of-trade deterioration for a small country model, incorporating weakly nonseparable preference a la Shi (1994) under endogenous time preference.

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The 'real' explanation of the PPP puzzle

Ford, Nicholas; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016

This article shows that global financial markets cannot, by themselves, achieve net transfers of financial capital and real interest rate equalisation across countries and that the integration of both global financial markets and global goods markets is needed to achieve net transfers of capital...

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Preference for young workers in mid-career recruiting using online ads for sales jobs: Evidence from Japan

Zvedelikova, Mirka - 2022

This study uses an original dataset of online mid-career job ads for full-time sales jobs collected from July 2018 to December 2019 to examine the use of explicit and implied age limits on job applicants and characteristics of companies that set them. Although Japanese law prohibits age...

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Does self-regulation of advertisement length improve consumer welfare?

Matsubae, Taisuke; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012

In Japan, TV platforms regulate themselves as to the length of the advertisements they air. Using modified Hotelling …

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Testing the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Ohtake, Fumio - 2004

workers' income satisfaction and work morale. This paper uses the current deflationary recession in Japan to estimate this … cuts on workers' pay satisfaction and morale. This evidence, obtained from a deflationary economy, supports Bewley (1999)'s …

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Do the elderly dissave in Japan?

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2004

In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando's seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …

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