be organized around common notions of complete markets. This paper compares two alternative modes of trade policy … analysis by juxtaposing the ?economic? view inherent in Gene Grossman?s work on ?Japan?s Innovation and Trade? with the … remarks on ?New Trade Theory?s Implications for Policy Analysis? by John Pomery. …

Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …

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

evidence about the policy-induced development of environmentally friendly technology. I use patent data from 1976 to 1997 for … 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 …

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

.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 …