This paper illustrates the situated construction of a marketing environment, in which power significantly matters. For this purpose, we shed light upon the meaning attached to diesel vehicles in Japan. The focus is justified by its uniqueness regarding the treatment of diesel vehicles and the...

This study investigates the efficiency of Japanese credit cooperatives using a stochastic directional distance function approach and compares the results obtained from a slack-based data envelopment analysis model (SBM). Moreover, it focuses on the differences in the four groups classified by a...

This paper is to set out the backgrounds for the construction of new rural and urban poverty and inequality estimates using the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey (LSMS) data of developing countries with focus on methodological details as well as on their advantages or disadvantages....

In estimation and calibration studies the concept of ergodicity plays a fundamental role. At the same time, a significant number of economic models do not satisfy the classical ergodicity conditions. Motivated by existing work on economic dynamics, we develop a new set of results on ergodicity...

This paper provides a brief explanation of the Japanese public credit guarantee system and analyzes what role it played during the global financial crisis. The author conducted a questionnaire survey of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Aichi Prefecture, the prefecture most seriously...

This study compares the perceptions of Millennials with those of senior employees in a cross border acquisition. Literature on Millennials argues that since they are open-minded, it can be assumed they would enjoy greater job satisfaction after their firm is acquired by another company. We...

This paper, using data derived from a questionnaire survey of Indonesian firms, analyzes not only whether a firm's environmental performance improves its financial performance, but also whether this relationship depends on the firm's stance on conducting environmental management voluntarily or...

Many previous empirical studies have suggested that cooperation and trust affect economic growth. However, the precise relationship between trust and cooperation (i.e., whether trust leads to cooperation or cooperation leads to trust) remains unclear and it is not known how the level of economic...

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of fertility and their changes in recent years drawing upon large household data sets in India, namely National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data over the period 1992-2006. It is found that there is a negative and significant association...

This paper develops a stochastic growth model of a small open economy augmented with banks. We estimate the model by using Bayesian methods and examine how capital controls affect the economy's welfare. The results of our our analysis show that there exits an optimal degree of capital controls...