News Archive (2017)

March

March 30, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-11 "Carpooling and Drivers without Household Vehicles: Gender Disparity in Automobility among Hispanics in the U.S."
Miwa MATSUO
March 29, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-10 "Periodic Solutions of the One-sector Growth Model: The Role of Income Effects"
Kazumichi IWASA / Gerhard SORGER
March 29, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-09 "Contract Rigidity and Timeliness of Accounting Information"
Kazunori MIWA / Yutaro MURAKAMI / Atsushi SHIIBA / Satoshi TAGUCHI
March 29, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-08 "Dynamics of Standard Setter's Translation: 'Goodwill' in Japanese GAAP"
Saori MATSUBARA / Takahiro ENDO / Keishi FUJIYAMA
March 26, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-07 "Do Environmental Disclosures and Their Credibility Play a Role in Linking Corporate Environmental Performance and Shareholder Value?"
Kimitaka NISHITANI / M. B. HAIDER / Katsuhiko KOKUBU
March 26, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-22 (Revised) "Effects of Trade Liberalization on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidences from Panel Data of the Indian Manufacturing Sector"
Manabu FURUTA / Prabir BHATTACHARYA / Takahiro SATO
March 23, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-06 "Cross-Country Research on Earnings Quality: A Literature Review and Future Opportunities"
Masahiro ENOMOTO
March 14, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-05 "Combinations of Different Length Contracts in a Multiperiod Model: Short, Medium and Long-term Contracts"
Meg ADACHI-SATO / Kazuya KAMIYA

February

February 23, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-04 "The Effect of Anchoring on Dishonest Behavior"
Hiromasa TAKAHASHI / Junyi SHEN
February 13, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-03 "Japan's Credit Guarantee System Reform of 2017 and New Functions of Credit Guarantee Associations"
Nobuyoshi YAMORI

January

January 30, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-40 (Revised) "Do Conditional Cash Transfers Reduce Household Vulnerability in Rural Mexico?"
Naoko UCHIYAMA
January 22, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-02 "Spatial Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: A Municipality Level Analysis"
Anda DAVID / Nathalie GUILBERT / Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI / Yudai HIGASHI / Hiroyuki HINO / Murray LEIBBRANDT / Muna SHIFA
January 16, 2018
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2018-01 "Factors Affecting Participation in Health Checkups: Evidence from Japanese Survey Data"
Riko NOGUCHI / Junyi SHEN

December

December 26, 2017
An article written by Prof. Takahiro SATO appeared in the Weekly Economist (Vol.January 2&9, 2018, p41)

December 15, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-34 "Robust Comparative Statics for Non-monotone Shocks in Large Aggregative Games"
Carmen CAMACHO / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Çağrı SAĞLAM
December 6, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-32 (Revised) "A Simple Optimality-Based No-Bubble Theorem for Deterministic Sequential Economies with Strictly Monotone Preferences"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
December 6, 2017
An article written about Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's lecture appeared in Kobe Shinbun (November 25, 2017)

December 4, 2017
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (November 9&10, 2017)

November

November 30, 2017
An article related to Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA's research appeared in Asahi Shinbun (November 24, 2017)

November 20, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-33 "Current Situation and Challenges of Human Resources Management of Financial Institutions: Based on the 2017 Attitude Survey of Young and Mid-Level Staff of Japanese Financial Institutions"
Nobuyoshi YAMORI / Koji YONEDA
November 15, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-32 "Countercyclical Endogenous Uncertainty Shocks, Efficiency Wages and Procyclical Precautionary Labor Productivity"
Jean-Michel GRANDMONT
November 15, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-31 "Behavioral Heterogeneity: Pareto Distributions of Homothetic Preference Scales and Aggregate Expenditures Income Elasticities"
Jean-Michel GRANDMONT
November 10, 2017
Prof. Takahiro SATO's comment appeared in The Daily NNA India (November 9, 2017)

November 8, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-30 "Profit or Environment? A System Dynamic Model Analysis of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management System in China"
Qinxin GUO / Enci WANG / Yongyou NIE / Junyi SHEN
November 4, 2017
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (November 2, 2017)

October

October 27, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-29 "New Hires' Job Satisfaction Time Trajectory"
Ralf BEBENROTH / Jose O.L. BERENGUERES
October 27, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-34 (Revised) "A Cross-Country Study on the Relationship between Financial Development and Earnings Management"
Masahiro ENOMOTO / Fumihiko KIMURA / Tomoyasu YAMAGUCHI
October 25, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-28 "How Do Accounting and Legal Experts View the Role of Regional Financial Institutions in Supporting SMEs? -Based on a 2016 Questionnaire Study of Accounting and Legal Experts-"
Nobuyoshi YAMORI / Koji YONEDA
October 24, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-10 (Revised) "Capital Controls, Monetary Policy, and Balance Sheets in a Small Open Economy"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
October 24, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-27 "Binary Collective Choice with Multiple Premises"
Masaki MIYASHITA
October 16, 2017
A column written by Prof. Kimitaka NISHITANI appeared in the Weekly Economist (Vol.October 24, 2017, p56)

October 12, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-26 "Roles of Agricultural Transformation in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals on Poverty, Hunger, Productivity, and Inequality"
Katsushi S. IMAI
October 11, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-25 (Revised) "Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation: Rural Development is Still More Important than Urbanisation"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA / Alessandra GARBERO
October 5, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-25 "Organizational Refinements of Nash Equilibrium"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Kerim KESKIN / Çağrı SAĞLAM
October 3, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-18 (Revised) "Capital Controls, Macroprudential Regulation,and the Bank Balance Sheet Channel"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU

September

September 29, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-24 "Risk-Taking Channel of Unconventional Monetary Policies in Bank Lending"
Kiyotaka NAKASHIMA / Masahiko SHIBAMOTO / Koji TAKAHASHI
September 28, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-23 "Examining Japanese Women's Preferences for a New Style of Postnatal Care Facility and Its Attributes"
Junyi SHEN / Takako NAKASHIMA / Izumi KARASAWA / Tatsuro FURUI / Kenichiro MORISHIGE / Tatsuyoshi SAIJO
September 28, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-22 "Effects of Trade Liberalization on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidences from Panel Data of the Indian Manufacturing Sector"
Manabu FURUTA / Prabir BHATTACHARYA / Takahiro SATO
September 26, 2017
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in Nihon Keizai Shinbun (September 26, 2017, Morning paper)

September 24, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-25 (Revised) "Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation: Rural Development is Still More Important than Urbanisation"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA / Alessandra GARBERO
September 20, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-06 (Revised) "Employee Downsizing and Accounting Choices: Evidence from Japan"
Keishi FUJIYAMA / Makoto KUROKI
September 16, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-21 "Examining Shanghai Consumer Preferences for Electric Vehicles and Their Attributes"
Yongyou NIE / Enci WANG / Qinxin GUO / Junyi SHEN
September 12, 2017
A column written by Prof. Kimitaka NISHITANI appeared in the Weekly Economist (Vol.September 19, 2017, p52)

September 1, 2017
Prof. Takahiro SATO's comment appeared in The Daily NNA India (September 1, 2017)

September 1, 2017
An article written by Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in Nihon Keizai Shinbun (August 29, 2017, Morning paper)

August

August 25, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-20 "A Pragmatic Method for Model-Selection Based on the Widely Applicable Bayesian Information Criterion"
Hiroyuki WATANABE
August 4, 2017
A column written by Prof. Kimitaka NISHITANI appeared in the Weekly Economist (Vol.August 8, 2017, p48)

August 3, 2017
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (July 7, 2017)

August 1, 2017
Articles related to Prof. Takahiro SATO appeared in The Daily NNA India (July 31, 2017)

August 1, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-19 "A Review of the Literature on Productivity Impacts of Global Value Chains and Foreign Direct Investment: Towards an Integrated Approach"
Yoshimichi MURAKAMI / Keijiro OTSUKA

July

July 28, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-18 "Capital Controls, Macroprudential Regulation, and the Bank Balance Sheet Channel"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
July 28, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-11 (Revised) "Capital Controls as a Credit Policy Tool in a Small Open Economy"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
July 21, 2017
Prof. Satoshi FUJIMURA appeared in TV show on MBS as a commentator (July 16, 2017)

July 5, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-16 (Revised) "Measuring Social Change Using Text Data: A Simple Distributional Approach"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Kazuhiro SEKI / Masahiko SHIBAMOTO
July 4, 2017
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (June 30, 2017)

June

June 27, 2017
A column written by Prof. Kimitaka NISHITANI appeared in the Weekly Economist (Vol.July 4, 2017, p52)

June 16, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-17 "Do Agricultural Marketing Laws Matter for Rural Growth? Evidence from the Indian States"
Purnima PUROHIT / Katsushi S. IMAI / Kunal SEN
June 14, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-01 (Revised) "Determinants of Rural-urban Inequality in Vietnam: Detailed Decomposition Analyses Based on Unconditional Quantile Regressions"
Thanh BUI / Katsushi S. IMAI
June 4, 2017
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (May 24, 2017)

May

May 31, 2017
An article written by Prof. Takahiro SATO appeared in the Weekly Economist (Vol.June 6, 2017)

May 31, 2017
Prof. Takahiro SATO's comment appeared in The Daily NNA India (May 29, 2017)

May 25, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-16 "Measuring Social Change Using Text Data: A Simple Distributional Approach"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Kazuhiro SEKI / Masahiko SHIBAMOTO
May 23, 2017
A column written by Prof. Kimitaka NISHITANI appeared in the Weekly Economist (Vol.May 30, 2017, p50)

May 22, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-34 (Revised) "Capital Controls and Financial Frictions in a Small Open Economy」
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
May 10, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-15 "Mind Your Language! : Role of Target Firm Language in Post-Merger Integration"
Ashish MALIK / Ralf BEBENROTH
May 8, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-14 "Great East Japan Earthquake and Risk Management for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises -How Do Japanese SMEs Prepare against Natural Disasters?-"
Nobuyoshi YAMORI / Yoshihiro ASAI

April

April 26, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-05 (Revised) "Identifying Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks"
Kiyotaka NAKASHIMA / Masahiko SHIBAMOTO / Koji TAKAHASHI
April 25, 2017
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2017-06 (Revised) "Employee Downsizing and Accounting Choices"
Keishi FUJIYAMA / Makoto KUROKI
April 12, 2017
"Center for Computational Social Science: CCSS" has been established on March 15, 2017

April 10, 2017
A column written by Prof. Kimitaka NISHITANI appeared in the Weekly Economist (Vol.April 18, 2017, p54)

April 2, 2017
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in Nihon Keizai Shinbun (March 8, 2017, Morning paper)

April 2, 2017
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (March 15, 2017)

April 1, 2017
Hidetoshi YAMAJI (Former Professor, RIEB, Kobe University) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB

April 1, 2017
Kazumine KONDO (Professor, Department of Economics, Aichi Gakuin University, JAPAN) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB