Discussion Papers 2004


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Number Authors Title Date
CIRJE-F-312 Chambers, Matthew, Carlos Garriga and Don E. Schlagenhauf "Accounting for Changes in the Homeownership Rate" December 2004
CIRJE-F-311 Miwa, Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer "Industrial Finance Before the Financial Revolution: Japan at the Turn of the Last Century" December 2004
CIRJE-F-310 Okazaki, Tetsuji "Holding Company and Bank: An Historical Comparative Perspective on Corporate Governance in Japan" December 2004
CIRJE-F-309 Takeda, Yuka "Transient or Chronic Poverty in Russia? The Urban and Rural Poor during the 1990s"(in Russian) December 2004
CIRJE-F-308 Kubokawa, Tatsuya and William E. Strawderman "On Minimaxity and Admissibility of Hierarchical Bayes Estimators" December 2004
CIRJE-F-307 Sawada, Michiru and Tetsuji Okazaki "Effects of Bank Consolidation Promotion Policy: Evaluating the Bank Law in 1927 Japan" November 2004
CIRJE-F-306 Kubokawa, Tatsuya "Estimation of a Mean of a Normal Distribution with a Bounded Coefficient of Variation" October 2004
CIRJE-F-305 Hannah, Leslie "Concentration and Productivity: A Broader Perspective" October 2004
CIRJE-F-304 Matsushima, Hitoshi "Non-Consequetial Moral Preferences, Detail-Free Implementation, and Representative Systems" October 2004
CIRJE-F-303 Arai, Yoichi "Testing for Linearity in Regressions with I (1) processes" October 2004
CIRJE-F-302 Yamamori, Tetsuo, Kazuhiko Kato, Toshiji Kawagoe and Akihiko Matsui "Voice Matters in a Dictator Game" September 2004
CIRJE-F-301 Nelson, Patricia A. "The Effect of Innovation and Technological Change on Information Flows, Authority and Industry Associations in Japan" September 2004
CIRJE-F-300 Srivastava, Muni S. and Tatsuya Kubokawa "Empirical Bayes Regression Analysis with Many Regressors but Fewer Observations" September 2004
CIRJE-F-299 Kobayashi, Takao, Akihiko Takahashi and Norio Tokioka "Dynamic Optimality of Yield Curve Strategies" September 2004
CIRJE-F-298 Takahashi, Akihiko and Yoshihiko Uchida "New Acceleration Schemes with the Asymptotic Expansion in Monte Carlo Simulation" September 2004; Revised in June 2005
CIRJE-F-297 Omori, Yasuhiro, Siddhartha Chib, Neil Shephard, Jouchi Nakajima "Stochastic volatility with leverage: fast and efficient likelihood inference" August 2004; Revised in April 2006
CIRJE-F-296 Kubokawa, Tatsuya "Estimation of Bounded Location and Scale Parameters" August 2004
CIRJE-F-295 Matsuyama, Kiminori "Beyond Icebergs: Modeling Globalization as Biased Technical Change" August 2004
CIRJE-F-294 Matsuyama, Kiminori "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: An Inquiry into the Causes and Nature of Credit Cycles" August 2004
CIRJE-F-293 Matsuyama, Kiminori "Credit Market Imperfections and Patterns of International Trade and Capital Flows" August 2004
CIRJE-F-292 Matsui, Muneya and Akimichi Takemura "Some Improvements in Numerical Evaluation of Symmetric Stable Density and its Derivatives" August 2004
CIRJE-F-291 Ohashi, Hiroshi, Tae-Seung Kim, Tae Hoon Oum and Chunyan Yu "Choice of Air Cargo Transshipment Airport: An Application to Air Cargo Traffic to/from Northeast Asia" July 2004
CIRJE-F-290 Miwa, Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer "Toward a Theory of Jurisdictional Competition: The Case of the Japanese FTC" July 2004
CIRJE-F-289 Zhang, Qiang "Accounting for Human Capital and Weak Identification in Evaluating the Epstein-Zin-Weil Non-Expected Utility Model of Asset Pricing" July 2004
CIRJE-F-288 Wada, Kazuo "Kiichiro Toyoda and the Birth of the Japanese Automobile Industry: Reconsideration of Toyoda-Platt Agreement" July 2004
CIRJE-F-287 Matsushima, Hitoshi "On Detail-Free Mechanism Design and Rationality" June 2004
CIRJE-F-286 Kandori, Michihiro, Roberto Serrano and Oscar Volij "Decentralized Trade, Random Utility and the Evolution of Social Welfare" June 2004
CIRJE-F-285 Chousa, Juan Pineiro, Haider A. Khan, Davit Melikyan and Artur Tamazian "Assesing Institutional Efficiency, Growth and Integration" June 2004
CIRJE-F-284 Okazaki, Tetsuji "The Role of the Merchant Coalition in Pre-modern Japanese Economic Development: An Historical Institutional Analysis" June 2004
CIRJE-F-283 Kamiya, Kazuya, Noritsugu Morishita and Takashi Shimizu "On the Existence of Single-Price Equilibria in a Matching Model with Divisible Money and Production Cost" June 2004
CIRJE-F-282 Matsushima, Hitoshi "Large Auction Design in Dominance" June 2004
CIRJE-F-281 Khan, Haider, A. "On Mortality and Poverty: An Axiomatic Approach With A Modified Index" June 2004
CIRJE-F-280 Ohashi, Hiroshi "Learning by Doing, Export Subsidies, and Industry Growth: Japanese Steel in the 1950s and 1960s" May 2004
CIRJE-F-279 Kiyono, Kazuharu and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara "Strategic International Agreement on Global Environment Management" May 2004
CIRJE-F-278 Miwa, Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer "The Fable of the Keiretsu, and Other Tales of Japan We Wish Were True" May 2004
CIRJE-F-277 Tanimoto, Masayuki "Capital Accumulation and the Local Economy: Brewers and Local Notables" May 2004
CIRJE-F-276 Ando, Munetomo and Noriyuki Yanagawa "Cost of Enforcement in Developing Countries with Credit Market Imperfection" May 2004
CIRJE-F-275 Tanimoto, Masayuki "The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: A Perspective of "Indigenous Development"" April 2004
CIRJE-F-274 Kiyota, Kozo and Tetsuji Okazaki "Foreign Technology Acquisition Policy and Firm Performance in Japan, 1957-1970: The Japanese Industrial Policy Revisited" April 2004
CIRJE-F-272 Kunitomo, Naoto and Takashi Owada "Empirical Likelihood Estimation of Levy Processes" April 2004; Revised in March 2005
CIRJE-F-271 Fukuda, Shin-ichi and Masanori Ono "The Choice of Invoice Currency under Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence from Korea" April 2004
CIRJE-F-270 Kubokawa, Tatsuya "Minimaxity in Estimation of Restricted Parameters" March 2004
CIRJE-F-269 Hatta, Tatsuo "A Theory of Commodity Tax Reform under Revenue Constraint" March 2004
CIRJE-F-268 Okazaki, Tetsuji "The Role of the Merchant Coalition in Pre-modern Japanese Economic Development: An Historical Institutional Analysis" March 2004
CIRJE-F-267 Miwa, Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer "Deregulation and Market Response in Contemporary Japan: Administrative Guidance, Keiretsu, and Main Banks" March 2004
CIRJE-F-266 Nishiyama, Shinichi Analyzing an Aging Population ---A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach---" March 2004
CIRJE-F-265 Iwami, Toru "Economic Development and/or Environmental Quality: Emissions of CO2 and SO2 in East Asia" February 2004
CIRJE-F-264 Kubokawa, Tatsuya "A Revisit to Estimation of the Precision Matrix of the Wishart Distribution" February 2004; Revised in February 2004
CIRJE-F-263 Kasuya, Makoto "Continuity and Change in the Employment and Promotion of Japanese White-Collar Employees: The Case of the House of Mitsui" February 2004
CIRJE-F-262 Okuda, Hiroshi ed. "History of the Russian Peasantry in the 20th Century (volume 2), Tokyo, 2004" February 2004
CIRJE-F-261 Clements, Matthew T. and Hiroshi Ohashi. "Indirect Network Effects and the Product Cycle: Video Games in the U.S., 1994-2002" February 2004
CIRJE-F-260 Khan, Haider A. "Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities" January 2004
CIRJE-F-259 Khan, Haider A. "Towards A Field Theory of Innovating Multinational Firms in the Digital Economy: Creative Capital in a POLIS" January 2004
CIRJE-F-258 Khan, Haider A., Jyh-Jeng Wu and Chao-Chung Kang "Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of MNCs: Taiwanese Firms' in People's Republic of China and Southeast Asia" January 2004
CIRJE-F-257 Khan, Haider A. "Development as Freedom" January 2004
CIRJE-F-256 Okazaki, Tetsuji, "Selection and Imitation in Institutional Evolution: Analysis of Institutional Change in Japan, 1960-1999" January 2004


Number Authors Title Date
CIRJE-J-122 Okazaki, Tetsuji "Internal Labor Markets in Pre-War Mitsubishi Zaibatsu" December 2004
CIRJE-J-121 Abe, Makoto "Incorporating Theory and Modeling in Data Analysis for CRM: RF Analysis based on a Consumer Behavior Model" December 2004
CIRJE-J-120 Okazaki, Tetsuji and Masaki Nakabayashi "History of Production Organizations" October 2004
CIRJE-J-119 Okazaki, Tetsuji, Ysushi Hamao and Takeo Hoshi "The Genesis and the Development of the Pre-war Japanese Stock Market" October 2004
CIRJE-J-118 Okazaki, Tetsuji "Selection and Imitation in Institutional Evolution: Analysis of Institutional Change in Japan, 1960-1999" October 2004
CIRJE-J-117 Sun, Jae Won "Rationalization of Management and Employment Adjustment in Reconstruction Period: The Strategy of a Personnel Retrenchment at the Showadenko Company 1945-50" August 2004
CIRJE-J-116 Okazaki, Tetsuji  "Diffusion of Professional Managers in Prewar Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry: Determinants and Implications" July 2004
CIRJE-J-115 Ishihara, Shunji "The Formation of the Modern Population Statistics in Sweden --- Parish Registers and the Population Tables" July 2004
CIRJE-J-114 Takeda, Yuka  "Data Sources for Poverty Analysis on Russia: What Survey is Useful for the Russian Poverty Issues?" June 2004
CIRJE-J-113 Kunitomo, Naoto and Tomoyuki Ichiha  "Multiperiod Statistical Risk Management Methods and Equity-Linked Life Insurance" June 2004
CIRJE-J-112 Takahashi, Akihiko and Shuichiro Matsushima  "Monte Carlo Simulation with an Asymptotic Expansion in HJM Framework" May 2004
CIRJE-J-111 Miwa, Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer  "The Effectiveness of Economic Controls: The Early Postwar Years in Japan --- Part II: Political Economy of Economic Controls" May 2004
CIRJE-J-110 Miwa, Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer  "The Effectiveness of Economic Controls: The Early Postwar Years in Japan --- Part I: The Effectiveness of Economic Controls" May 2004
CIRJE-J-109 Tanimoto, Masayuki  "Urban small busineses in the Inter-War Period:A case of Tokyo prefecture" April 2004
CIRJE-J-108 Obinata, Takashi "The Value Relevance of Earnings in Transportation Industry" April 2004
CIRJE-J-107 Okazaki, Tetsuji  "Political System and Fiscal Performance: Experiences in Prewar Japan" April 2004
CIRJE-J-106 Yanagawa, Noriyuki and Ryoko Oki  "A Case Study about Corporate Revival Process: Nitto Kougyou" April 2004
CIRJE-J-105 Yanagawa, Noriyuki and Ryoko Oki  "A Case Study about Corporate Revival Process: Snow Brand Milk Products" April 2004
CIRJE-J-104 Yamamori, Tetsuo, Kazuhiko Kato, Toshiji Kawagoe and Akihiko Matsui "Voice Matters in a Dictator Game" March 2004
CIRJE-J-103 Seshimo, Hiroyuki and Fukuju Yamazaki  "Perverse Incentives of Loan Supply and the Violation of Absolute Priority Rule in Japan---Credit Crunch and Excessive Additional Loan---" February 2004
CIRJE-J-102 Obinata, Takashi  "Discretionary Determination and Value Relevance of Accrual Expenses incurred by Nuclear Power Plant" February 2004


   
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