It is often said that Japanese traditional institutionalism in labor studies(JTILS) isn't necessarily useful for analyzing current problems, like inequality and poverty among workers. This kind of obsoleteness in JTILS is caused by two blind sides: inattention to the renewal of the theory about...

This paper is preliminary note on an empirical analysis that compares different interpretations and implementations of so called lean production system, by different automobile manufacturers in the world. This paper outlines an analytical framework and hypotheses by which the author tries to...

After "the Burst of the Bubble," Japan entered a long period of stagnation in 1990s, which observers call "the Lost Decade." This "Lost Decade" ended with "the Financial Crisis," after which the Koizumi Cabinet aggressively pursued a policy designed to reduce the amount of "bad loans" held by...

This is a draft of the textbook providing an introduction to economic history. Major targets of the book are senior undergraduate and master level graduate students. Unlike most of the textbooks in this area, it does not contain chronological history, but it covers several topics interesting...

Despite the many economic studies documenting the problems governments face in trying to control or guide economic growth, the literature on postwar Japan posits an exception: during the first three years after World War II, the Japanese government (working with the Allied occupation)...

This paper investigates the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in formulating rice planting contracts in the Philippines. In our study area, despite the potential for pervasive opportunistic behaviors by workers, a fixed-wage (FW) contract has been dominant for rice planting....

For estimating the integrated volatility by using high frequency data, Kunitomo and Sato (2008, 2011, 2013) have proposed the Separating Information Maximum Likelihood (SIML) method when there are micro-market noises. The SIML estimator has reasonable nite sample properties and asymptotic...

In the beginning of the 20th century marriage legislation was reformed in all the Nordic countries. Male privileges were abolished and equality was declared. Marriage was constructed as a union between two independent individuals that could be dissolved if both wanted to. It was not until the...

Despite frequent discussions on regional variations in health care expenditure (HCE), few studies account for the sources of such regional disparities. This study bridges this gap in the literature by taking the following two steps. First, we explore the determinants of regional HCE in Japan,...

Decreasing block rate pricing is a nonlinear price system often used for public utility services. Residential gas services in Japan and the United Kingdom are provided under this price schedule. The discrete/continuous choice approach is used to analyze the demand under decreasing block rate...