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. Second, damaged young firms and damaged old firms are more likely to raise the shares of imports from Japan and China …
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this method to Indonesia’s and Japan’s pre- and post-decentralization eras, beset by efficiency–equity trade-offs between …. First, as excessive economic activity regions in two countries, the capital region in Japan mostly shows the highest returns … concentration in the Java-Bali region before and after decartelization regime while the Japan’s government pursues the pro …
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Japan’s energy security is more vulnerable today than it was before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident … in March 2011. To alleviate its energy vulnerability, Japan has no choice but to improve energy efficiency. To aid in … this improvement, this study compares Japan’s energy efficiency at the industry level with that of other developed …
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In this paper we consider future options for Japanese energy and climate policy. We assess the economic and environmental impacts of changing the share of electricity generated by nuclear power and varying the mid-term GHG targets. The quantitative approach we use is based on the global...
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To what extent does a tax credit affect firms’ R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms’ R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...
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The Japanese yen in 2012 remained 25% above its value in 2007. Exports, industrial production, and stock prices crashed after 2007 and had yet to regain their pre-crash values five years later. This paper investigates the contribution of the yen appreciation to this economic disaster. Evidence...
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Under the Tokugawa shogunate, 1603-1868, registered peasants were guaranteed their residual claim to crop from their land, but shielded from the market risk. Provided with incentives for productivity increase but protected from the market risk, millions of peas-ant family continuously managed...
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Professor Tetsuro Nakaoka, formerly of Osaka University, and now of the Faculty of Management, Osaka University of Economics, gave a seminar on Japanese industrial development at the Suntory-Toyota Centre during 1992. Although it was not possible to publish that paper as a STICERD discussion...
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influential at the health policy making level in a number of countries. However, a search of the literature reveals that in Japan … the system of health care financing in Japan is not conducive to this form of analysis. Moreover, the government and many …. Even if it is accepted that low health care costs and good health prevail in Japan, slower economic growth rates, an ageing …
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This paper undertakes a time series analysis of the Japanese divorce rate using annual data over the period 1964–2006. One of the key innovations of the paper is to use court decisions on divorce disputes to construct an index that seeks to measure how the probability of success in a divorce...
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