This paper examines how intellectual property rights (IPR) protection affects innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a North-South quality-ladder model incorporat- ing the exogenous and costless imitation of technology and subsidy policies for both R&D and FDI. We show that for the...

This paper analyzes the interactions between labor and housing (and land) markets in a city. We develop a monocentric city model involving land development and frictional unemployment. Unemployment, the spatial structure of a city, land development, housing demand, prices of housing and land are...

In Albania, remittance has been an important factor for the countryfs economic growth since the collapse of the countryfs communist regime in the early 1990s. In this paper, I investigated why migrants send remittance to their parents household. In the analysis, I considered four remittance...

This paper explores the implications of status-seeking behavior in wealth for economic dynamics. I move away from the conventional setup of status preference. That is, individuals with higher wealth behave differently as compared to those with lower wealth; agents with different wealth have...

Based on the relational perspective of work, we examine the role of job autonomy, social skill, and employee status as factors related to employee job crafting. We found that job autonomy and social skill both directly and interactively influenced job crafting for part-time employees in Japan....

Managerfs cognitive biases prohibits from changing organization. But, we do not know in-depth and correctly how do they decide things when they persist in something. We distinguish managerial objects into three categories: focus of attention, neighborhood of focus, and out of focus, and we...

Using a panel dataset of firms for the period 1999-2008, we estimated the prevalence of zombies among Japanese Small- and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their borrowing and investment behaviors. We observe that 4-14% of SMEs were zombie firms during the period 1999-2008. Analysis of...

We estimated the extent to which ezombief SMEs existed in Japan by using panel data set of firms and investigated borrowing and investment functions of ezombief SMEs. We found that 5%`13% of SMEs are ezombief firms. As for borrowing behavior, ezombief firms did not succeed in reducing their...

Externalities exist when companies perform sales activities (e.g., advertising and sales promotions). However, welfare analysis of policy effectiveness, such as taxation/regulation on sales activities, has not been sufficiently conducted. Existing studies have mainly focused on specifying the...

We examine the effects of environmental policies such as a subsidy for reforestation and an export-income tax in a small open economy with a re- newable resource. In the small economy, the harvested renewable resources are exported to acquire foreign assets and consumers can invest in the...