Productivity growth in Japan, as in most advanced economies, has moderated. This paper finds supportive evidence for … the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in explaining Japan's modest productivity growth. Results … show a substantial dispersion in firm-level productivity growth across sectors and even across firms within the same sector …

currencies in the sample, a difference that may originate in the exceptional productivity performance of the Japanese traded …

We evaluate a stated choice experiment on dynamic electricity tariffs based on two representative household surveys … towards dynamic tariffs, with the latter generally being more open to dynamic pricing. Furthermore, our unique experimental … highlighting the environmental benefits associated to dynamic tariffs present themselves as suitable tools to reduce households …