In two-sided matching problems, we consider “natural” changes in preferences of agents in which only the rankings of current partners are enhanced. We introduce two desirable properties of matching rules under such rankenhancements of partners. One property requires that an agent who becomes...

In 2009 China passed the United States to become the world's top country in terms of motor vehicle manufacturing and sales. One factor behind automobile industry development is motorization. Motorization is perceived as a synonym for an affluent life, but as one can see from the examples of...

This article analyzes the identifiability of k-variate, M-component finite mixture models in which each component distribution has independent marginals, including models in latent class analysis. Without making parametric assumptions on the component distributions, we investigate how one can...

本稿は、大阪府の東部を南北に走る上町断層帯周辺の地価形成に関する実証分析を通じて、活断層リスクがどの程度認知されてきたのかを検証している。上町断層帯の両側2km...

本実証研究では、東京都において2000...

本論文は、2008 年と2009 年に約2,000 の世帯に対して継続して実施したアンケート調査に基づきながら、家計の公的・民間地震保険に対する選択行動におけるコンテクスト効果を検証している。2008...

Semiparametric estimation of a bivariate fractionally cointegrated system is considered. We propose a two-step procedure that accommodates both (asymptotically) stationary (d<1/2) and nonstationary (d>=1/2) stochastic trend and/or equilibrium error. A tapered version of the local Whittle estimator of Robinson (2008) is...</1/2)>

We investigate a pure exchange atomless economy under uncertainty with emphasis on an epistemic point of view, where the traders are assumed to have a non-partitional information structure. We propose a generalized notion of rational expectations equilibrium for the economy and we show the core...

Although transition to entrepreneurship is a central subject in entrepreneurial studies, there is little research on its link with previous employer firm size. This study examines this relationship by utilizing a rich data set representing the entire Taiwanese labor market. While we found that...