Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008, governments worldwide went on massive spending sprees in a bid to stimulate the flagging world economy. Typical measures targeted at specific sectors included government bailouts of financial firms and support for the automotive...

Interregional migration is one of the most important issues for the vitalization of the regional economies. What is the factor in changing the regional populations? Numerous factors have been used in past empirical analysis, and many researchers have noticed that using various kinds of...

In this article, we examine the change in the wages of regular employed workers through the 1990s and the 2000s using Japanese establishment level data drawn from the Basic Survey on Wage Structure. Contrary to previous literature that found that the wages in the manufacturing industries...

Energy Consumption Statistics of Japan that started in 2005 by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Agency of Natural Resources and Energy is a large scale general official statistics in Japan in order to identify energy consumption by industrial classification and region. But the author...

In light of several recent awards ordering host states to pay costly compensation, the concern not to chill and immobilize governmental action by the prospect of large damages awards by invest treaty arbitration has been felt. On the other hand, it is often said that compelling a state by an...

One of the characteristics of Japan's manufacturing industry is being able to find throughout the country excellent small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) which are not dependent on a few specific customers and have highly competitive products as shown in the strong market shares domestically...

This paper attempts to show what kinds of collaborative organizational structures have been formed and managed by top managers of small- and medium-sized manufacturers and how they have acquired the capabilities to build inter-organizational collaborative relationships, using descriptive data on...

This paper verifies the real effects of fiscal consolidation using the empirical model built upon the theoretical explanations about the real effects of public debt accumulation elaborated in Shoji (2013), and it aims at identifying the mechanism of the economic stagnation characterized by low...

This paper analyzes the determinants and effects of e-commerce on firms' productivity using the longitudinal data from the Basic Survey of Japanese Business Structure and Activities (BSBSA). The main findings are as follows.(1) Excellent firms with higher productivity are more likely to utilize...

Amid the decreasing labor force caused by the low birthrate and the aging population, Japan urgently needs to increase the knowledge and productivity levels of each citizen in order to maintain economic growth for the future as a mature society. Against this background, it has become crucial to...