This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard …

the US, Japan and the major European countries in order to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy … significantly positively correlated with innovation in both Japan and the EU. A tentative interpretation might be that a rise in …. Furthermore, the tax ratio, which has consistently risen in Japan and especially the EU, could be seen as an indicator for …

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …

analysis by juxtaposing the ?economic? view inherent in Gene Grossman?s work on ?Japan?s Innovation and Trade? with the …

.g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … Hamamatsu, whereas it is negative in San Diego. The paper draws on data from ethnographic studies in Japan and California to …

The present paper uses a comparison of Japan and the US to argue that the debate about corporate governance reform is …