The effects of fuel price on travel demand for different income groups reveal the choices and constraints they are faced with. The first purpose of this study is to understand these underlying choices and constraints by examining the variation of fuel price elasticity of vehicle miles travelled...

The RIETI inventor survey, which was conducted in 2007, invited inventors to contribute their views and opinions on the constraints on the R&D performance of their organizations, and the policies and managerial agenda for improving it. A total of 1,300 inventors (around one quarter of those who...

This study investigates the sensitivity of on-street parking demand using the automatic transaction data from parking pay stations obtained before and after a parking rate change that was implemented in Seattle in early 2011. The parking rate implementation is based on performance-based pricing...

A multifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting and zinc-air battery involves totally three reactions, namely, oxygen reduction, oxygen evolution, and hydrogen evolution, and is very demanding and challenging. The current study provided an interesting example to achieve such a goal by...

Developing membrane electrolyte materials with high performance and low cost is a key factor in promoting the application and commercialization of the high temperature proton exchange fuel cell (HT-PEMFC). In this work, a Tröger’s base (TB) polymer of DMBP-TB is synthesized from commercially...

We study how climate risk shapes financial-reporting conservatism with data collected from 47 countries, and document that firms facing more extreme weather conditions use less unconditional conservatism but more conditional conservatism in financial reporting. Furthermore, such impacts of...