Despite the prolonged recession and sizable environmental changes after the burst of the Japanese economic bubble, a drastic degeneration has not been seen, either in seniority-based wages or in Japan's practice of lifetime employment, in the previous studies analyzing the negative impact of...

ODA disbursements of donor countries have been examined and compared at international fora including DAC. Mostly attention has been paid to ODA/GDP ratio. International target of 0.7% ODA/GDP ratio has been maintained since the 1970s. The premise is that GDP determines ODA. Other economic...

This paper verified possible application of model-based univariate and multivariate Bandpass filter for Japanese time series data. Firstly, we extracted cycle components and estimated periodic length of monthly univariate time series such as coincident index (CCI) and the index of industrial...

This study examines, with a focus on regional environmental states in China, whether regional latecomers enjoy the spillover effects of nation-wide progress in environmental management and technology, or stay behind from environmental progress, or even suffer the "pollution heaven" effects...

This paper documents the secular decline of years of job tenure in Japan based on micro data from two representative government surveys, namely the household-based Employment Status Survey (ESS) and the establishment-based Basic Survey of Wage Structure (BSWS). Workers born in 1970 have...

In this paper, productivity and DEA (Data Envelope Analysis) efficiency analysis is provided for Japanese hospitals by using "Byoin Nenkan (Hospital Yearbook)" published by R&D Incorporated. Based on the data analysis covering almost all hospitals (about 9,000) in Japan, we have found that...

This paper develops a two country model to investigate the effects of national R&Dsubsidies on aggregate product variety and endogenous productivity growth withoutscale effects. In particular, monopolistically competitive firms invest in process innovationwith the aim of lowering production...

In this paper we propose an estimation strategy for DSGE models with occasionaly binding constraints, such as models with a zero lower bound for the nominal interest rate (ZLB). The usual likelihood approach is based on a first order approximation of the model around its deterministic steady...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effects of deflation on intergenerational inequality through the pension system. The current automatic adjustment mechanism (ADM) for pension benefits introduced in the 2004 Pension Reform is not activated during the deflation. The 2009 Pension...

The purpose of this paper is to conduct an empirical analysis on the impact of Japan's IT investment based on the revised macroeconomic data we build in this paper using 2005 Input-Output Table published March 2009. For this purpose, we build the time series data of Japan's IT investment and...