development (R&D) subsidy programs at the city level. Our research fills this gap by using information on R&D subsidy programs … from local authorities in Japan collected via websites and our original survey. Thus, our research aims at empirically … investigating the determinants of both implementation and design of local R&D subsidy programs at the city level (length and upper …

November 1999 - Crossing national borders adds significantly to price dispersion. This study of prices in Japan and the …, over 88 quarters, across 96 cities in Japan and the United States, to answer several questions: · Does the average exchange … dynamics of the border effect. Focusing on the dispersion of prices between city pairs, they confirm previous findings that …