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Price Behavior in Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing
Marston, Richard C. - 2010
extensive in Japan. In response to a appreciation of the yen, Japanese firms reduce their export prices in yen sharply so as to …
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Agglomeration and the Price of Land : Evidence from the Prefectures
Dekle, Robert; Eaton, Jonathan - 2021
We use Japanese prefectural wage and land price data to estimate the magnitude of agglomeration effects in manufacturing and finance. We also examine the range of agglomeration effects by estimating the extent to which they diminish with distance, using a specification that encompasses the polar...
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Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan
Tomiura, Eiichi - 2021
In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218887
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R&D, Production Structure and Productivity Growth : A Comparison of the Us, Japanese and Korean Manufacturing Sectors
Nadiri, M. Ishaq; Kim, Seongjun - 2021
We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical and R&D capital treated as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219187
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Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia : A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Iarossi, Giuseppe; Sokoloff, … - 2021
This paper uses new firm level data from five East Asian countries to explore the patterns of manufacturing productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of markets affects the relative productivity of firms across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232143
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Is Japan'S Innovative Capacity in Decline?
Branstetter, Lee; Nakamura, Yoshiaki - 2021
This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there...
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The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. And Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960 : A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis
Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2021
This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game ….S.and Japan during the first three decades of this century. In both countries, employment relations evolved from ones governed by …-term contracts and company-wide employee representation.The paper then documents the subsequent processes of bifurcation. While Japan …
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The Evolving External Orientation of Manufacturing Industries : Evidence from Four Countries
Campa, José Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2021
, and the United Kingdom, but not in Japan. The observed increases in external orientation are in terms of industry export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243629
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Markups in U.S. And Japanese Manufacturing : a Short Run Econometric Analysis
Morrison Paul, Catherine J. - 2021
data for the U.S. and Japan from 1960 through 1981. The empirical results suggest that markups for manufacturing firms in … the U.S. and Japan have increased over time, but tend to be procyclical in the U.S. and countercyclical in Japan. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245528
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies : Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2014
period 1994-2006 in Japan and 7,828 firms over the period 1993-2008 in the Netherlands, we first apply two procedures to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063909