Official price indexes, such as the CPI, are imperfect indicators of inflation calculated using ad hoc price formulae different from the theoretically well-founded inflation indexes favored by economists. This paper provides the first estimate of how accurately the CPI informs us about "true"...

This paper develops a new scheme for improving an approximation method of a probability density function, which is inspired by the idea in best approximation in an inner product space. Moreover, we applies "Dykstra's cyclic projections algorithm" for its implementation. Numerical examples for...

Understanding the mutual relationships between information flows and social activity in society today is one of the cornerstones of the social sciences. In financial economics, the key issue in this regard is understanding and quantifying how news of all possible types (geopolitical,...

The existence of optimal strategy in robust utility maximization is addressed when the utility function is finite on the entire real line. A delicate problem in this case is to find a "good definition" of admissible strategies to obtain an optimizer. Under certain assumptions, especially a...

This paper provides the optimal position management strategy for a market maker who has to face uncertain customer orders in an "illiquid" market, where the market maker’s continuous trading through a traditional exchange incurs stochastic linear price impacts. In addition, it is supposed...

Many observers describe the last 20 years of the Japanese economy as "the Two Lost Decades". Many also discuss the "bad loans" in the banking sector and the "insufficient"and "delayed" "disposal of the bad loans." They urge policies that will accelerate that disposition. Observers have also...

This paper develops a new scheme for improving an approximation method of a probability density function, which is inspired by the idea in best approximation in an inner product space. Moreover, we apply "Dykstra's cyclic projections algorithm" for its implementation. Numerical examples for...

We build a model economy in which a shortage of safe assets can create conditions for intrinsically useless 'safe' bubble assets to circulate at a positive price. Our environment features in nitely lived individuals who are not subject to credit constraints but who face uninsurable idiosyncratic...

This is the last of the 4 discussion papers that, together with the Introduction and Summary paper (Miwa, 2010c), comprise the report of my recent investigation: "A Study of Financing Behavior of Japanese Firms with Firm-Level Data from Corporate Enterprise Quarterly Statistics -- 1994~2009". In...

This paper investigates on the effects of economic recession in 2008 after the "financial crisis" with Firm - Level Data (non-financial sector) from the "Corporate Enterprise Annually Statistics" from 1994 to 2008. The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of the shock on the...