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Governance Of The Management Of Public Debt In Japan
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper deals with the issue of Japan's public debt, particularly from a governance perspective. Japan's public debt continues to follow a rising path mainly due to the fact that, in the harsh...
Provided by Kobe University
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Pareto-Improving Trading Clubs Without Income Transfers
January 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors show that, if the standard revenue and expenditure functions exist, any group of countries can engage in a Pareto-improving non-discriminatory tariff reform without income transfers,...
Provided by Kobe University
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Labor-Management Bargaining, Labor Standards And International Rivalry
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using the labor union's bargaining power as an indication of government policy on labor standards issues, the authors analyze the competition between a domestic (North) firm and a foreign (South)...
Provided by Kobe University
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Forward Search Algorithm for Robust Influence Analysis in Maximum Likelihood Factor Analysis
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Mainly in regression analysis, numerous methods have been proposed historically for the analysis of the influence of single or multiple observations on the results of analysis. Such a sensitivity...
Provided by Kobe University
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A Goal-Oriented Approach to Software Obfuscation
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Various software obfuscation techniques have been proposed. However, there are few discussions on proper use of these obfuscations against imaginable threats. An ad-hoc use of obfuscations cannot...
Provided by Kobe University
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Conflicts And Solutions Between Material Flow Cost Accounting And Conventional Management Thinking
July 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA), a major tool in environmental management accounting, has been developed worldwide. In Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has been...
Provided by Kobe University
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Growth With Time Zone Differences
February 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a two-country growth model of intermediate business-services trade that captures the role of time zone differences. It is shown that a time-saving improvement in intermediate...
Provided by Kobe University
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Productivity Growth And Patterns Of Industry Location Without Scale Effects
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relationship between geographic patterns of economic activity and productivity growth in a two region model of trade and endogenous growth without scale effects. At the...
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Patterns Of Technology, Industry Concentration, And Productivity Growth Without Scale Effects
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relationship between geographic patterns of industrial activity and endogenous growth in a two region model of trade that exhibits no scale effect. The in-house process...
Provided by Kobe University
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Are SRI Funds More Resilient Towards The Global Financial Crisis?
May 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper compares the resilience of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds with that of conventional funds towards the global financial crisis by using an event study methodology. Taking...
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Financial Integration And International Transmission Of Business Cycles: Evidence From Dynamic Correlations
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors estimate determinants of dynamic correlations of output comovement of OECD countries between 1990 and 2008. They show that trade intensity, degree of financial integration and...
Provided by Kobe University
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Globalization, Financial Depth, And Inequality In Sub-Saharan Africa
August 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the relationship between globalization, financial deepening, and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa between 1980 and 2002. The authors provide the first detailed econometric...
Provided by Kobe University
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Offshoring Production: A Simple Model Of Wages, Productivity, And Growth
July 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the relationship between offshoring and the labour market in an occupational choice model of trade and endogenous growth where workers are employed on the basis of their...
Provided by Kobe University
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Trade And Firm Heterogeneity In A Quality-Ladder Model Of Growth
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The present paper explores the effect of trade liberalization on the level of productivity as well as the rate of productivity growth in an R&D-based model with heterogeneous firms. The authors...
Provided by Kobe University
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A Constructive Proof Of Existence And A Characterization Of The Farsighted Stable Set In A Price-Leadership Cartel Model Under The Optimal Pricing
January 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
Diamantoudi (2005, Economic Theory) has proved the existence of the (unique) stable set of cartels in a price-leadership cartel model, in which firms are assumed to be farsighted and the dominant...
Provided by Kobe University
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Demographic Changes, Fiscal Policy And Economic Growth: Theory And Evidence
October 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Demographic changes have two faces: a falling birth rate, and a longer life expectancy. This paper analyzes the effect that those two phenomena have on fiscal policy and economic growth in a...
Provided by Kobe University
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Technological Leaders And Followers In A World Economy
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of North-South trade and economic growth in a world economy with a continuum of countries. Countries are different in research productivity....
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Financial Risks And Research Contracts In A Model Of Endogenous Growth
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper examines researchers' choices between either collaborating with venture capitalists (Regime C) or going independently (Regime I), and how their interaction affects long-run endogenous...
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Asymmetric Preferences For Monetary Policy Rules In The Visegrad Four And The Financial Crisis
August 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses asymmetric preferences for the monetary policies of the Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). The authors extend Surico's (2007) asymmetric...
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An Empirical Analysis Of The Monetary Policy Reaction Function In India
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically analyzes India's monetary policy reaction function by applying the Taylor (1993) rule and its open-economy version which employs dynamic OLS. The analysis uses monthly data...
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Fiscal Stimulus, Agricultural Growth And Poverty In Asia
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent debates on a sustainable recovery of the global economy have tended to overemphasise the "Savings glut" hypothesis and the unavoidable imperative of higher consumption in China and other...
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Fiscal Stimulus, Agricultural Growth And Poverty In Asia
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent debates on a sustainable recovery of the global economy have tended to overemphasise the "Savings glut" hypothesis and the unavoidable imperative of higher consumption in China and other...
Provided by Kobe University
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An Empirical Analysis Of The Monetary Policy Reaction Function In India
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically analyzes India's monetary policy reaction function by applying the Taylor (1993) rule and its open-economy version which employs dynamic OLS. The analysis uses monthly data...
Provided by Kobe University
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White Papers
Asymmetric Preferences For Monetary Policy Rules In The Visegrad Four And The Financial Crisis
August 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses asymmetric preferences for the monetary policies of the Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). The authors extend Surico's (2007) asymmetric...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Financial Risks And Research Contracts In A Model Of Endogenous Growth
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper examines researchers' choices between either collaborating with venture capitalists (Regime C) or going independently (Regime I), and how their interaction affects long-run endogenous...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Technological Leaders And Followers In A World Economy
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of North-South trade and economic growth in a world economy with a continuum of countries. Countries are different in research productivity....
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Demographic Changes, Fiscal Policy And Economic Growth: Theory And Evidence
October 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Demographic changes have two faces: a falling birth rate, and a longer life expectancy. This paper analyzes the effect that those two phenomena have on fiscal policy and economic growth in a...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
A Constructive Proof Of Existence And A Characterization Of The Farsighted Stable Set In A Price-Leadership Cartel Model Under The Optimal Pricing
January 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
Diamantoudi (2005, Economic Theory) has proved the existence of the (unique) stable set of cartels in a price-leadership cartel model, in which firms are assumed to be farsighted and the dominant...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Trade And Firm Heterogeneity In A Quality-Ladder Model Of Growth
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The present paper explores the effect of trade liberalization on the level of productivity as well as the rate of productivity growth in an R&D-based model with heterogeneous firms. The authors...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Offshoring Production: A Simple Model Of Wages, Productivity, And Growth
July 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the relationship between offshoring and the labour market in an occupational choice model of trade and endogenous growth where workers are employed on the basis of their...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Globalization, Financial Depth, And Inequality In Sub-Saharan Africa
August 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the relationship between globalization, financial deepening, and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa between 1980 and 2002. The authors provide the first detailed econometric...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Financial Integration And International Transmission Of Business Cycles: Evidence From Dynamic Correlations
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors estimate determinants of dynamic correlations of output comovement of OECD countries between 1990 and 2008. They show that trade intensity, degree of financial integration and...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Are SRI Funds More Resilient Towards The Global Financial Crisis?
May 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper compares the resilience of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds with that of conventional funds towards the global financial crisis by using an event study methodology. Taking...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Patterns Of Technology, Industry Concentration, And Productivity Growth Without Scale Effects
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relationship between geographic patterns of industrial activity and endogenous growth in a two region model of trade that exhibits no scale effect. The in-house process...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Productivity Growth And Patterns Of Industry Location Without Scale Effects
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relationship between geographic patterns of economic activity and productivity growth in a two region model of trade and endogenous growth without scale effects. At the...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Growth With Time Zone Differences
February 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a two-country growth model of intermediate business-services trade that captures the role of time zone differences. It is shown that a time-saving improvement in intermediate...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Conflicts And Solutions Between Material Flow Cost Accounting And Conventional Management Thinking
July 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA), a major tool in environmental management accounting, has been developed worldwide. In Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has been...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
A Goal-Oriented Approach to Software Obfuscation
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Various software obfuscation techniques have been proposed. However, there are few discussions on proper use of these obfuscations against imaginable threats. An ad-hoc use of obfuscations cannot...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Forward Search Algorithm for Robust Influence Analysis in Maximum Likelihood Factor Analysis
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Mainly in regression analysis, numerous methods have been proposed historically for the analysis of the influence of single or multiple observations on the results of analysis. Such a sensitivity...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Labor-Management Bargaining, Labor Standards And International Rivalry
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using the labor union's bargaining power as an indication of government policy on labor standards issues, the authors analyze the competition between a domestic (North) firm and a foreign (South)...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Pareto-Improving Trading Clubs Without Income Transfers
January 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors show that, if the standard revenue and expenditure functions exist, any group of countries can engage in a Pareto-improving non-discriminatory tariff reform without income transfers,...
Provided by Kobe University
-
White Papers
Governance Of The Management Of Public Debt In Japan
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper deals with the issue of Japan's public debt, particularly from a governance perspective. Japan's public debt continues to follow a rising path mainly due to the fact that, in the harsh...
Provided by Kobe University
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