News Archive (2012)

March

March 27, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-10 "Financial Crisis in Asia: Its Genesis, Severity and Impact on Poverty and Hunger"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA / Ganesh THAPA / Samuel Kobina ANNIM
March 26, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-13 (Revised) "Accrual-Based and Real Earnings Management: An International Comparison for Investor Protection"
Masahiro ENOMOTO / Fumihiko KIMURA / Tomoyasu YAMAGUCHI
March 21, 2013
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in The Nikkei(p.11) on March 21, 2013.

March 15, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-09 "The Potential Welfare Benefit of Capital Controls: the Case of Korea"
Shigeto KITANO / Yoichi MATSUBAYASHI
March 15, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-08 "The South Manchuria Railway Company: an accounting and financial history, 1907-1943"
Masayoshi NOGUCHI / Trevor BOYNS
March 5, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-07 "Crises, Economic Integration and Growth Collapses in African Countries"
Abdilahi ALI / Katsushi S. IMAI

February

February 20, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-06 "Are Emerging Market Multinationals Milking Their Cross Border Acquisition Targets? A Study of Inbound Japanese and Korean M&As"
Ralf BEBENROTH / Martin HEMMERT
February 18, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-05 "Recent Changes in Micro-Level Determinants of Fertility in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey Data"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Takahiro SATO
February 5, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-04 "Inequalities and Patience for Tomorrow"
Kazumichi IWASA / Laixun ZHAO
February 4, 2013
The Japanese Accounting Review Vol.2 is avairable online.

January

January 25, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-03 "Exact Sampling from the Stationary Distribution of Entry-Exit Models"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
January 25, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-02 "Stochastic Stability in Monotone Economies"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
January 15, 2013
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-01 "The Influence of Voluntary and Mandatory Environmental Performance on Financial Performance: An Empirical Study of Indonesian Firms"
Kimitaka NISHITANI / Nurul JANNAH / Hardinsyah RIDWAN / Shinji KANEKO
January 1, 2013
Koichi HAMADA (Tuntex Professor Emeritus of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University, U.S.A. / Special Advisor to the Cabinet, JAPAN) assumed his post as a research fellow of RIEB.
January 1, 2013
Masahisa FUJITA (President and Chief Research Officer, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry / Professor, Konan University / Adjunct Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, JAPAN) assumed his post as a research fellow of RIEB.
January 1, 2013
Santanu ROY (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, U.S.A.) assumed his post as a research fellow of RIEB.
January 1, 2013
John STACHURSKI (Professor, Research School of Economics, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA) assumed his post as a research fellow of RIEB.

December

December 18, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-11 (Revised) "Does Women's Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India?"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Samuel Kobina ANNIM / Raghav GAIHA / Veena S. KULKARNI
December 18, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-10 (Revised) "Nutrition, Activity Intensity and Wage Linkages: Evidence from India"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Samuel Kobina ANNIM / Raghav GAIHA / Veena S. KULKARNI
December 11, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-34 "Impacts of Agricultural Extension on Crop Productivity, Poverty and Vulnerability: Evidence from Uganda"
Md. Faruq HASAN / Katsushi S. IMAI / Takahiro SATO
December 6, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-29 (Revised) "Immigration Conflicts"
Junko DOI / Laixun ZHAO
December 6, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-33 "Indian Labour Markets and Returns to Education, 1983 to 2009-10"
Kamal VATTA / Takahiro SATO
December 3, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-32 "The Economic Environment surrounding Developing Countries"
Toshikatsu AOYAMA

November

November 19, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-31 "Elementary Results on Solutions to the Bellman Equation of Dynamic Programming: Existence, Uniqueness, and Convergence"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
November 19, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-30 "Diet Diversification and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis"
Raghav GAIHA / Nidhi KAICKER / Katsushi S. IMAI / Vani S. KULKARNI / Ganesh THAPA
November 5, 2012
Associate Prof. Yasuo TAKATSUKI was awarded the Nikkei Prize for Economics Books.

October

October 31, 2012
An article about Prof. Shoji NISHIJIMA appeared in the evening edition of Asahi Shimbun (P.5) on October 27, 2012.

October 25, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-29 "Immigration Conflicts"
Junko DOI / Laixun ZHAO
October 25, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-28 "Agriculture, Markets and Poverty - A Comparative Analysis of Laos and Cambodia"
Raghav GAIHA / Md Shafiul AZAM / Samuel ANNIM / Katsushi S. IMAI
October 22, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-20(Revised) "Ergodic Chaos and Aggregate Stability: A Deterministic Discrete-Choice Model of Wealth Distribution Dynamics"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
October 17, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-27 "Existence, Uniqueness and Stability of Stationary Distributions: An Extension of the Hopenhayn-Prescott Theorem"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
October 17, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-26 "Exact Draws from the Stationary Distribution of Entry-Exit Models"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
October 17, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2011-26(Revised) "An Optimal Government Spending Reversal Rule in a Small Open Economy"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
October 16, 2012
Prof. Ralf BEBENROTH was nominated as "International Management Division, FDC BEST PAPER IN STRATEGY / IB THEORY FINALIST" at the Academy of Management 2012 Annual Meeting.
October 11, 2012
An article written by Prof. Laixun ZHAO appeared in South China Morning Post on October 10, 2012.

October 9, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-25 "Does non-farm sector employment reduce rural poverty and vulnerability? Evidence from Vietnam and India"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA / Woojin KANG / Samuel ANNIM / Ganesh THAPA
October 4, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-24 "Stochastic Optimal Growth with Risky Labor Supply"
Yiyong CAI / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI

September

September 28, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-23 "Identification of Factors Behind Performance of Pharmaceutical Industries in India"
Chiranjib NEOGI / Atsuko KAMIIKE / Takahiro SATO
September 10, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-22 "Informational Efficiency under the Shogunate Governance: Concentration and Integration of the Rice Market in Tokugawa Japan"
Yasuo TAKATSUKI
September 10, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-21 "The formation of an efficient market in Tokugawa Japan"
Yasuo TAKATSUKI

July

July 25, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-20 "Ergodic Chaos and Aggregate Stability: A Deterministic Discrete-Choice Model of Wealth Distribution Dynamics"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
July 9, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-19 "Multi-National Public Goods Provision under Multilateral Income Transfers & Productivity Differences"
Tatsuyoshi MIYAKOSHI / Laixun ZHAO

June

June 20, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-18 "Réflexion sur l'Environnement Économique International entourant les Pays en Développement / Reflection on the International Economic Environment surrounding the Developing Countries (in French)"
Toshikatsu AOYAMA
June 14, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-17 "NEW RISKS, OLD WELFARE Japanese university students, work-related anxieties and sources of support"
Tuukka TOIVONEN / Junya TSUTSUI / Haruka SHIBATA
June 12, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-16 "Agriculture-Nutrition Pathway in India"
Raghav GAIHA / Nidhi KAICKER / Katsushi S. IMAI / Ganesh THAPA
June 11, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-15 "Has Dietary Transition Slowed Down in India: An Analysis Based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS"
Raghav GAIHA / Nidhi KAICKER / Katsushi S. IMAI / Vani S. KULKARNI / Ganesh THAPA
June 7, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-14 "Demand for Nutrients in India: An Analysis Based on the 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of the NSS"
Raghav GAIHA / Nidhi KAICKER / Katsushi S. IMAI / Ganesh THAPA

May

May 25, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-13 "Accrual-Based and Real Earnings Management: An International Comparison for Investor Protection"
Masahiro ENOMOTO / Fumihiko KIMURA / Tomoyasu YAMAGUCHI
May 8, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2010-23(Revised) "Structural Change in Current Account and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics: Evidence from the G7 Countries"
Masahiko SHIBAMOTO / Shigeto KITANO
May 7, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2011-18(Revised) "Stable shareholdings, the decision horizon problem, and patterns of earnings management"
Akinobu SHUTO / Takuya IWASAKI

April

April 11, 2012
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-12 "Japan's Orientation towards Foreign Investments: Inertia Effects and Driving Force of Institutional Changes"
Nir KSHETRI / Ralf BEBENROTH