By gathering and analyzing the textual information in eXtensible Business Reporting Language format from the annual securities reports of around 3,800 Japanese listed companies from 2013 to 2023, this study aims to uncover the trend of Japanese corporate environmental, social, and governance...

Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...

This paper establishes an economic theory of information value and volume that differs from Shannon's mathematical theory of communication (Shannon, 1948). The economics of information should be recognized as an important frontier field of economics to explore the 4th industrial revolution...

Using Japanese microdata for the period 1980 to 2000 we find evidence for two transmission channels from financial shocks to foreign direct investment: a collateral channel, whereby changes in the value of investors' landholdings affect their borrowing ability; and a lending channel, whereby...