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Natural Disasters and Demand for Redistribution : Lessons from an Earthquake

Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio; … - 2020

The literature shows that when a society believes that wealth is determined by random “luck” rather than by merit, it demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random “bad luck” can frustrate the outcomes achieved with merit. We...

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School Choice With General Constraints : A Market Design Approach for the Nursery School Waiting List Problem in Japan

Okumura, Yasunori - 2018

This study considers a school choice problem with general feasibility constraints. Each student belongs to a grade; and two students belonging to the same grade are symmetric, whereas those belonging to different grades can be asymmetric with respect to the feasibility constraint of a school. We...

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Firm-Specific Assets and the Link between Exchange Rates and Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the United States : A Reexamination

Guo, Jie Qun; Trivedi, Pravin K. - 2002

Blonigen has studied the Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States using panel count models and data for 1975-92. He reports the overall finding that appreciation of Japanese yen had a positive impact on Japanese FDI in the U.S.A. This paper reexamines the robustness of this...

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The Expanding Empire and Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : The Case of Japan's Colonization of Korea During the Prewar Period

Nakajima, Kentaro; Okazaki, Tetsuji - 2018

In 1910, Japan annexed Korea and integrated it into the Empire of Japan. According to its policy of assimilating … colonies, the Japanese government intended to remove the tariffs between Japan and Korea, an aim which had almost been realized … by 1923. The removal of the tariff barrier was supposed to improve market access between Japan and Korea. This article …

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Comments Submitted to Japan Patent Office on Guide to Licensing Negotiations Involving Standard Essential Patents

Contreras, Jorge L. - 2018

These comments were submitted to the Japan Patent Office (JPO) in response to its request for comments on its Guide to …

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Law's Dominion and the Market for Legal Elites in Japan

Milhaupt, Curtis J.; West, Mark D. - 2004

In this Article, we present data on legal elites in Japan - legally trained university graduates poised to pursue … marked shift in employment patterns over the past decade: increasingly, Japan's most elite university graduates are forsaking … the bureaucracy for law. We find that changes in Japan's underlying economic, political, and legal institutions are a …

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The Social Economy Sector in Japan

Ishizuka, Hideo - 2004

The Social Economy Sector is a newcomer in Japanese society. Based on two experiments and theories derived from the European concept of social economy and the American concept of the non profit organization, the Japanese way of integration of a social economy sector is developing under the name...

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Socio-Demographic Drivers of Residential CO2 Emissions in the 47 Prefectures of Japan

Shigetomi, Yosuke; Matsumoto, Ken'ichi; Ehara, Tomoki; … - 2018

This study examined which socio-economic drivers contributed to energy-related CO2 emissions in Japanese households in all 47 prefectures since 1990. We adopted the logarithmic mean Divisia index technique to decompose the prefectural trends in CO2 emissions during the period 1990-2013 into six...

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Investigating Collaborative R&D Using Patent Data : The Case Study of Robot Technology in Japan

Lechevalier, Sebastien; Ikeda, Yukio; Nishimura, Junichi - 2018

affiliated is a particularly time consuming task, we focus on robot technology in Japan since the beginning of the 1990s. Our … results are as follows. First, although the level of R&D collaboration in RT in Japan increased between 1991 and 2004 …

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The Heterogeneity of Employment Adjustment Across Japanese Firms. A Study Using Panel Data

Hurlin, Christophe; Lechevalier, Sebastien - 2018

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the evolution of the Japanese employment system has been characterized by a micro -- macro paradox. While case studies show the intensity of restructuring and downsizing, most of the studies at a macro level conclude to the absence of change. This article...

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