Discussion Papers 2005


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Number Authors Title Date
CIRJE-F-392 Braun, R. Anton, Julen Esteban-Pretel, Toshihiro Okada and Nao Sudou "A Comparison of the Japanese and U.S. Business Cycles" December 2005
CIRJE-F-391 Akai, Nobuo and Motohiro Sato "Decentralized leadership meets soft budget" December 2005     
CIRJE-F-390 Kamiya, Kazuya and Takashi Shimizu "Real Indeterminacy of Stationary Equilibria in Matching Models with Divisible Money" November 2005
CIRJE-F-389 Kubokawa, Tatsuya and Hisayuki Tsukuma "Estimation of Parameters in a Linear Regression Model under the Kullback-Leibler Loss" November 2005
CIRJE-F-388 Aoki, Masanao "Cluster Size Distributions of Heterogeneous Economic Agents: Are there non-self-averaging phenomena in economics? " October 2005
CIRJE-F-387 Doi, Takero, Toshihiro Ihori and Kiyoshi Mitsui "Sustainability, Debt Management, and Public Debt Policy in Japan" October 2005
CIRJE-F-386 Khan, Haider A. "Deconstructing Postmodernism and the Mainstream Developmental Discourse of Women's Empowerment in the (South) Asian Context" October 2005
CIRJE-F-385 Khan, Haider A. "China's Energy Dilemma" October 2005
CIRJE-F-384 Matsui, Muneya and Akimichi Takemura "Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Symmetric Stable Distributions - Empirical Characteristic Function Approach" October 2005
CIRJE-F-383 Matsuyama, Kiminori "The 2005 Lawerence R. Klein Lecture: Emergent Class Structure" October 2005
CIRJE-F-382 Okazaki, Tetsuji "Determinants and Effects of Employing Professional Corporate Executives: A Case of Cotton Spinning Companies in Pre-war Japan" October 2005
CIRJE-F-381 Miwa, Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer "Trade Credit, Bank Loans, and Monitoring: Evidence from Japan" October 2005
CIRJE-F-380 Esteban-Pretel, Julen and Elisa Faraglia "Monetary Shocks in a Model with Loss of Skills" October 2005; Revised in February 2009
CIRJE-F-379 Okazaki, Tetsuji, Michiru Sawada and Ke Wang "The Fall of "Organ Bank" Relationships During the Wave of Bank Failures and Consolidations: Experience in Pre-war Japan" October 2005
CIRJE-F-378 Tsukuma, Hisayuki and Tatsuya Kubokawa "Methods for Improvement in Estimation of a Normal Mean Matrix" September 2005
CIRJE-F-377 Lee, Jeong-Joon and Yasuyuki Sawada "Precautionary Saving under Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Rural Pakistan" September 2005
CIRJE-F-376 Matsushima, Hitoshi "Mechanism Design with Side Payments: Individual Rationality and Iterative Dominance" September 2005
CIRJE-F-375 Ueda, Kazuo "The Bank of Japan's Struggle with the Zero Lower Bound on Nominal Interest Rates: Exercises in Expectations Management" September 2005
CIRJE-F-374 Baba, Naohiko, Motoharu Nakashima, Yousuke Shigemi and Kazuo Ueda "The Bank of Japan's Monetary Policy and Bank Risk Premiums in the Money Market" September 2005
CIRJE-F-373 Duffie, Darrel, Leandro Saita and Ke Wang "Multi-Period Corporate Default Prediction With Stochastic Covariates" September 2005
CIRJE-F-372 Ihori, Toshihiro, Ryuta Ray Kato, Masumi Kawade and Shun-ichiro Bessho "Public Debt and Economic Growth in an Aging Japan" September 2005
CIRJE-F-371 Esteban-Pretel, Julen "The Effects of the Loss of Skills on Unemployment Fluctuations" September 2005; Revised in November 2007
CIRJE-F-370 Choi, Yun Jeong "Patterns of Retail and Wholesale Price Variations : Its Implication on Sticky Price Model" September 2005
CIRJE-F-369 Ishida, Isao "Scanning Multivariate Conditional Densities with Probability Integral Transforms" September 2005
CIRJE-F-368 Nakamura, Tsuyoshi and Hiroshi Ohashi "Technology Adoption, Learning by Doing, and Productivity: A Study of Steel Refining Furnaces" September 2005
CIRJE-F-367 Choi, Yun Jeong "Retailer Dynamic Pricing Behavior: Their Impacts on Consumer Welfare" September 2005
CIRJE-F-366 Matsuoka, Ryosuke, Akihiko Takahashi and Yoshihiko Uchida "A New Computational Scheme for Computing Greeks by the Asymptotic Expansion Approach" September 2005
CIRJE-F-365 Iwamoto, Yasushi "Interaction between Monetary and Fiscal Policy and the Policy Mix, Theoretical Consideration and Japanese Experience" September 2005
CIRJE-F-364 Fukuda, Shin-ichi, Munehisa Kasuya and Jouchi Nakajima "Deteriorating Bank Health and Lending in Japan: Evidence from Unlisted Companies Undergoing Financial Distress" September 2005
CIRJE-F-363 Li, Yiting and Akihiko Matsui "A Theory of International Currency and Seigniorage Competition" September 2005
CIRJE-F-362 Kubokawa, Tatsuya and Muni S. Srivastava "Estimation of the Precision Matrix of a Singular Wishart Distribution and its Application in High Dimensional Data" August 2005
CIRJE-F-361 Hoshino, Nobuaki "On a limiting quasi-multinomial distribution" August 2005
CIRJE-F-360 Peng, Shin-Kun and Takatoshi Tabuchi "Spatial Competition in Variety and Number of Stores" August 2005
CIRJE-F-359 Harrington, Joseph E. Jr. and Joe Chen "Cartel Pricing Dynamics with Cost Variability and Endogeneous Buyer Detection" August 2005
CIRJE-F-358 Chen, Joe and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. "The Impact of the Corporate Leniency Program on Cartel Formation and the Cartel Price Path" August 2005
CIRJE-F-357 Chen, Joe "The Market Structure of Nasdaq Dealer Markets and Quoting Conventions" August 2005
CIRJE-F-356 Sawada, Yasuyuki and Jonna P. Estudillo "The MDGs and Exit Time: The Case of the Philippines" August 2005
CIRJE-F-355 Okazaki, Tetsuji, Michiru Sawada and Kazuki Yokoyama "Measuring the Extent and Implications of Director Interlocking in the Pre-war Japanese Banking Industry" July 2005
CIRJE-F-354 Lee, Jeong-Joon "Observational Equivalencebetweenthe Malmquist Index and the Solow Residualfor the G-7 Countries" July 2005
CIRJE-F-353 Esteban-Pretel, Julen "Loss of Skill and Retraining in a Matching Model" July 2005
CIRJE-F-352 Hannah, Leslie "The Whig Fable of American Tobacco, 1895-1913" July 2005
CIRJE-F-351 Fukuda, Shin-ichi and Satoshi Koibuchi "The Impacts of "Shock Therapy" under a Banking Crisis : Experiences from Three Large Bank Failures in Japan" July 2005
CIRJE-F-350 Nishimura, Kiyohiko G., Takanobu Nakajima and Kozo Kiyota "Innovation Versus Diffusion: Determinants of Productivity Growth Among Japanese Firms" June 2005
CIRJE-F-349 Tsai, Ming-Tien and Tatsuya Kubokawa "Estimation of Several Wishart Mean Matrices" June 2005
CIRJE-F-348 Akai, Nobuo, Yusaku Horiuchi and Masayo Sakata "Short-run and Long-run Effects of Corruption on Economic Growth: Evidence from State-Level Cross-Section Data for the United States" June 2005
CIRJE-F-347 Kamiya, Kazuya and Takashi Shimizu "A New Technique for Proving the Existence of Monetary Equilibria in Matching Models with Divisible Money" June 2005
CIRJE-F-346 Matsushima, Hitoshi "Large Market Design in Dominance" June 2005
CIRJE-F-345 Okazaki, Tetsuji ""Voice" and "Exit" in Japanese Firms during the Second World War: Sanpo Revisited" June 2005
CIRJE-F-344 Hunter, Janet "Understanding the Economic History of Postal Services: Some Preliminary Observations from the Case of Meiji Japan" May 2005
CIRJE-F-343 Braun, R. Anton and Yuichiro Waki "Monetary Policy during Japan's Lost Decade" May 2005
CIRJE-F-342 Tsukuma, Hisayuki and Tatsuya Kubokawa "Stein Phenomenon in Estimation of Means Restricted to a Polyhedral Convex Cone" May 2005
CIRJE-F-341 Nishimura, Kiyohiko G., Takanobu Nakajima and Kozo Kiyota "Productivity Convergence at the Firm Level" May 2005
CIRJE-F-340 Miwa, Yoshiro and J. Mark Ramseyer "The Good Occupation" May 2005
CIRJE-F-339 Baba, Naohiko, Motoharu Nakashima, Yosuke Shigemi and Kazuo Ueda "The Bank of Japan's Monetary Policy and Bank Risk Premiums in the Money Market" April 2005
CIRJE-F-338 Matsuoka, Ryosuke and Akihiko Takahashi "A New Computational Scheme for Computing Greeks by the Asymptotic Expansion Approach"April 2005
CIRJE-F-337 Kobayashi, Takao, Seisho Sato and Akihiko Takahashi "Style Analysis Based on a General State Space Model and Monte Carlo Filter" April 2005
CIRJE-F-336 Oda, Nobuyuki and Kazuo Ueda "The Effects of the Bank of Japan's Zero Interest Rate Commitment and Quantitative Monetary Easing on the Yield Curve: A Macro-Finance Approach" April 2005
CIRJE-F-335 Takahashi, Akihiko and Nakahiro Yoshida "Monte Carlo Simulation with Asymptotic Method" April 2005
CIRJE-F-334 Khan, Haider A. "Governance, African Debt, and Sustainable Development: Policies for Partnership with Africa" April 2005
CIRJE-F-333 Akai, Nobuo and Dan Sasaki "Action Timing as a Collusive Common Good" March 2005
CIRJE-F-332 Akai, Nobuo and Dan Sasaki "Inflexibility as a Stabilisation Device" March 2005
CIRJE-F-331 Khan, Haider "Governance and Effectiveness of Japanese Aid: Towards Optimality" March 2005
CIRJE-F-330 Fukuda, Shin-ichi, Munehisa Kasuya and Jouchi Nakajima "Bank Health and Investment: An Analysis of Unlisted Companies in Japan" March 2005
CIRJE-F-329 Kiyota, Kozo and Tetsuji Okazaki "Foreign Technology Acquisition Policy and Firm Performance in Japan, 1957-1970: Micro-aspects of Industrial Policy" March 2005
CIRJE-F-328 Braun, R. Anton, Daisuke Ikeda and Douglas H. Joines "Saving and Interest Rates in Japan: Why They Have Fallen and Why They Will Remain Low" March 2005
CIRJE-F-327 Konya, Istvan and Hiroshi Ohashi "International Consumption Patterns among High-income Countries: Evidence from the OECD data" March 2005
CIRJE-F-326 Chousa, Juan Pineiro, Haider A. Khan, Davit N. Melikyan and Artur Tamazian "Institutional and Financial Determinants of Development: New Evidence from Advanced and Emerging Markets" March 2005
CIRJE-F-325 Ohashi, Hiroshi "How does Ownership Structure Affect the Timing of New Product Introductions? Evidence from the U.S. Video Game Market" March 2005
CIRJE-F-324 Srivastava M. S. and Tatsuya Kubokawa "Comparison of Discrimination Methods for High Dimensional Data" March 2005
CIRJE-F-323 Kamiya Kazuya and Takashi Shimizu "On the Role of Tax-Subsidy Scheme in Money Search Models" March 2005
CIRJE-F-322 Arimoto, Yutaka, Tetsuji Okazaki and Masaki Nakabayashi "Risk, Transaction costs, and Geographic Distribution of Share Tenancy: A Case of Pre-War Japan" March 2005
CIRJE-F-321 Anderson, T. W., Naoto Kunitomo and Yukitoshi Matsushita "A New Light from Old Wisdoms : Alternative Estimation Methods of Simultaneous Equations and Microeconometric Models" February 2005
CIRJE-F-320 Hamao, Yasushi, Takeo Hoshi and Tetsuji Okazaki "The Genesis and the Development of the Pre-war Japanese Stock Market" February 2005
CIRJE-F-319 Arai, Yoichi and Eiji Kurozumi "Testing for the Null Hypothesis of Cointegration with Structural Breaks" February 2005
CIRJE-F-318 Yotopoulos, Pan A. and Yasuyuki Sawada "Exchange Rate Misalignment: A New Test of Long-Run PPP Based on Cross-Country Data" February 2005
CIRJE-F-317 Kubokawa, Tatsuya and Ming-Tien Tsai "Estimation of Covariance Matrices in Fixed and Mixed Effects Linear Models" January 2005
CIRJE-F-316 Oum, Tae Hoon, Xiaowen Fu and Mark Lijesen "An Analysis of Airport Pricing and Regulation in the Presence of Competition Between Full Service Airlines and Low Cost Carriers" January 2005
CIRJE-F-315 Akai, Nobuo and Masayo Sakata "Fiscal Decentralization, Commitment and Regional Inequality: Evidence from State-level Cross-sectional Data for the United States" January 2005
CIRJE-F-314 Sawada, Yasuyuki and Satoshi Shimizutani "Are People Insured Against Natural Disasters? Evidence from the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake in 1995" January 2005
CIRJE-F-313 Akai, Nobuo and Kazuhiko Mikami "On Fiscal Federalism under Democracy" January 2005


Number Authors Title Date
CIRJE-J-142 Obinata, Takashi
"Bankruptcy Analysis and Going-concern Opinion Is Cox Proportional Hazard Model applicable to the auditing practice? "
December 2005
CIRJE-J-141 Akiyama, Gouta and Naoto Kunitomo
"On Risk Management Methods of Equity-Linked Insurance and Practical Problems"
October 2005
CIRJE-J-140 Obinata, Takashi
"Value Relevance of Earnings Components in the Income Statement"
September 2005
CIRJE-J-139 Obinata, Takashi
"Value Relevance of Legally Mandated Provisions"
September 2005
CIRJE-J-138 Sawada, Yasuyuki and Satoshi Shimizutani
"Coping with Damages caused by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake"
September 2005
CIRJE-J-137 Okazaki, Tetsuji
"Long-term Economic Plans in Japan: Historical and Comparative Perspective "
September 2005
CIRJE-J-136 Okazaki, Tetsuji
"An Introduction to Economic History"
August 2005
CIRJE-J-135 Kunitomo, Naoto and Makoto Takaoka
"Seasonality and Seasonal Switching Time Series Models"
July 2005
CIRJE-J-134 Tanimoto, Masayuki
"The Male Workers in the Factory circa 1910 :A Case Study of a Soy Sauce Brewery in Japan"
July 2005
CIRJE-J-133 Okazaki, Tetsuji, Esuke Yamanaka and Masaki Nakabayashi
"Role of Local Communities in Economic Developement: A Survey Focusing on the Export Industries in Nineteenth Century Japan"
June 2005
CIRJE-J-132 Yanagawa, Noriyuki, Sumio Hirose and Fumio Akiyoshi
"Bankruptcy Law, Corporate Finance, and Corporate Revival Process in Japan"
June 2005
CIRJE-J-131 Ikeda, Ryoichi, Takao Kobayashi and Akihiko Takahashi
"Modeling Credit Risk: A Structural Approach with Long-term and Short-term Debts"
May 2005
CIRJE-J-130 Mori, Tateshi
"Labor Management in Yawata Steel Works From 1890s To 1930s"
April 2005
CIRJE-J-129 Suzuki, Tsuneo, Yoichi Kobayakawa and Kazuo Wada
"An Analysis of Shareholders' Lists for 60 Cotton Spinning Companies in 1898"
April 2005
CIRJE-J-128 Takeda, Haruhito
"Industrial structure in the era of Japan's Industrial Revolution"
April 2005
CIRJE-J-127 Sasase, Yoshitaka and Tatsuya Kubokawa
"Asymptotic Correction of Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals and its Application to Small Area Estimation"
March 2005
CIRJE-J-126 Tanimoto, Masayuki
"What Did Kaisen Tonya (Wholesaler in port) Do? : A Case from Hiroumi 1860-1890"
February 2005
CIRJE-J-125 Tanimoto, Masayuki
"The New Development of Dispersed Production System: A Case from the Japanese Toy Industry in the Inter-war Period"
February 2005
CIRJE-J-124 Ito, Takatoshi and Yuko Hashimoto
"High-frequency Contagion between the Exchange Rates and Stock Prices during the Asian Currency Crisis"
February 2005
CIRJE-J-123 Obinata, Takashi
"Value Relevance of Segment Disclosure in Railroad Industry"
January 2005


   
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