All WPs and OPs are available at Columbia University Academic Commons, an institutional repository program sponsored by the Columbia University Libraries. These papers are searchable by keyword, or can be found directly in the following categories:
The Center has produced the following papers in 2021-22:
Working Papers
WP 380: The Long-Run Effects of Short-Time Compensation by Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama
WP 381: Tillers of Prosperity: Land Ownership, Reallocation, and Structural Transformation by Shuhei Kitamura
WP 382: The Role of Management Accounting in Stakeholder Theory by Junya Ohnishi
WP 383: Public Management Accounting in Japan: Case Study of the National Tax Agency in the Ministry of Finance by Junya Ohnishi
The Center has produced the following papers in 2020-21:
Working Papers
WP 375: Japan's Voluntary Lockdown by Tsutomu Watanabe and Tomoyoshi Yabu
WP 376: The Darkside of Pursuing Growth in the Product Cycle — Corruption, Graft, and Bubbles by William V. Rapp
WP 377: The Welfare Implications of Massive Money Injection: The Japanese Experience from 2013 to 2020 by Tsutomu Watanabe
WP 378: A Retrospective on Abenomics by Edward J. Lincoln
WP 379: Japan’s Voluntary Lockdown: Further Evidence Based on Age-Specific Mobile Location Data by Tsutomu Watanabe and Tomoyoshi Yabu
Occasional Papers
OP 80: Japan’s Economy: Stable in a Turbulent World by Hugh Patrick
OP 81: My Career as an Economist on Japan and the Asia-Pacific by Hugh Patrick
The Center has produced the following papers in 2019-20:
Working Papers
WP 369: Trade Effects on Job Changes through Job Creation and Destruction Responses by Masahiro Endoh
WP 370: Coming in at a Trickle: The Optimal Frequency of Public Benefit Payments by Cameron LaPoint and Shogo Sakabe
WP 371: Offshoring and Working Hours Adjustments in a Within-firm Labor Market by Masahiro Endoh
WP 372: The Future of Japan's Financial Market by Nobuyuki Kinoshita
WP 373: The Responses of Consumption and Prices in Japan to the COVID-19 Crisis and the Tohoku Earthquake by Tsutomu Watanabe
WP 374: The Effect of the U.S.-China Trade War on U.S. Investment by Mary Amiti, Sang Hoon Kong, and David E. Weinstein
The Center has produced the following papers in 2018-19:
Working Papers
WP 363: The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply and Economic Growth in Pre-War Japan by Sergi Basco and John P. Tang
WP 364: The Neo-Fisher Effect: Econometric Evidence from Empirical and Optimizing Models by Martin Uribe
WP 365: Main Bank Relationship and Accounting Conservatism: Evidence from Japan by Hideaki Sakawa and Naoki Watanabel
WP 366: Earnings Management and Internal Control in Bank-dominated Corporate Governance: Evidence from Japan by Hideaki Sakawa and Naoki Watanabel
WP 367: Japanese Newspapers by David Flath
WP 368: The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare by Mary Amiti, Stephen J. Redding, and David Weinstein
Occasional Papers
OP 79: Japan's Economy: Stable, with Modest Sustained Change by Hugh Patrick
The Center has produced the following papers in 2017-18:
Working Papers
WP 360: Difficulties and Challenges: Japan’s Post-War History of Economic Trends and Monetary Policy by Yoshio Suzuki
WP 361: The Crisis that Wasn’t: How Japan Has Avoided a Bond Market Panic by Mark T. Greenan and David E. Weinstein
WP 362: The Federal Reserve in the Shadow of the Bank of Japan by Thomas F. Cargill and Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.
Occasional Papers
OP 78: Japan's Economy: Moving Along its Modest Sustainable Growth Path by Hugh Patrick
The Center has produced the following papers in 2016-17:
Working Papers
WP 353: When Are Uninformed Boards Preferable? by Naoto Isaka
WP 354: Product Dynamics and Aggregate Shocks: Evidence from Japanese Product and Firm Level Data by Robert Dekle, Atsushi Kawakami, Nobuhiro Kitoyaki, and Tsutomu Miyagawa
WP 355: In the Eye of the Storm by William Rapp
WP 356: Lessons From Koizumi-Era Financial Services Sector Reforms by Naomi Fink
WP 357: Lending to Unhealthy Firms in Japan During the Lost Decade: Distinguishing between Technical and Financial Health by Suparna Chakraborty and Joe Peek
WP 358: Are Picked-up Losers Really Losers?: Evidence from Scrapping Policies in the Japanese Spinning Industry, 1965-79 by Takafumi Korenaga
WP 359: A New Governance Framework for Global Financial Regulation? by Masamichi Kono
Occasional Papers
OP 77: Review of Yoshio Suzuki's “Difficulties and Challenges, Japan’s Post-War History of Monetary Policy and Economic Trends” by Hugh Patrick
The Center has produced the following papers in 2015-16:
Working Papers
WP 344: Was the Forex Fixing Fixed? by Takatoshi Ito and Masahiro Yamada
WP 345: Heterogeneity in Japanese TFP, Part 1: Why Overcoming Deflation Alone is Not Enough by Naomi Fink
WP 346: Education and Marriage Decisions of Japanese Women and the Role of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act by Linda Edwards, Takuya Hasebe and Tadashi Sakai
WP 347: Heterogeneity in Japanese TFP, Part 2: Regulation, Capital Allocation, and TFP in Japan by Naomi Fink
WP 348: Good Jobs and Bad Jobs in Japan: 1982-2007 by Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato
WP 349: Growth Convergence and the Middle Income Trap by Takatoshi Ito
WP 350: The Regional Spillover Effects of the Tohoku Earthquake by Robert Dekle, Eunpyo Hong, and Wei Xie
WP 351: Four Types of Attitudes Towards Foreign Workers: Evidence from a Survey in Japan by Frances Rosenbluth, Rieko Kage, and Seiki Tanaka
WP 352: Puzzles in the Forex Tokyo “Fixing”: Order Imbalances and Biased Pricing by Banks by Takatoshi Ito and Masahiro Yamada
Occasional Papers
OP 73: Hiroshima Kosoku Kotsu Corporation by Hugh Patrick
OP 74: Japan's Abenomics Bumps Along by Hugh Patrick
OP 75: The Current Situation in the Japanese Economy and its Financial Markets – What is the Effect of the Negative Interest Rate? by Yasushi Kinoshita
OP 76: Interview with Hugh Patrick by Anna Balderston
The Center has produced the following papers in 2014-15:
Working Papers
WP 338: Quantifying Sentiment for the Japanese Economy as Predictors of Stock Prices by Hiroshi Ishijima
WP 339: Japanese Monetary Policy and International Spillovers by Robert Dekle and Koichi Hamada
WP 340: Japan’s Foreign Economic Policy Strategies and Economic Performance by Shiro Armstrong and Peter Drysdale
WP 341: Absence of Safe Assets and Fiscal Crisis by Masaya Sakuragawa and Yukie Sakuragawa
WP 342: Selective Disclosure: The Case of Nikkei Preview Articles by William Goetzmann, Yasushi Hamao, and Hidenori Takahashi
WP 343: Exchange Rate Exposure and Risk Management: The Case of Japanese Exporting Firms by Takatoshi Ito, Satoshi Koibuchi, Kiyotaka Sato, and Junko Shimizu
Occasional Papers
OP 67: Japan's Abenomics: So Far So Good, But Will It Prevail? by Hugh Patrick
OP 68: Nagasaki Jidousya Co., Ltd. by Hugh Patrick
OP 69: Oshima Shipbuilding Company by Hugh Patrick
OP 70: Kamotsuru Sake Brewing Company by Hugh Patrick
OP 71: Rethinking the Growth Strategy: Competition is the Way Toward Strengthening Agriculture by Takatoshi Ito and Masayoshi Homna
OP 72: The Future of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Concerns for Transparency and Governance by Takatoshi Ito
The Center has produced the following papers in 2013-14:
Working Papers:
WP 321: Real Exchange Rates in a Model of Structural Change: Applications to the Real Yen-Dollar and Chinese RMB-Dollar Exchange Rates by Robert Dekle
WP 322: How Making it Easier to Succeed Reduces Success: IPO Reform and New Firm Performance by Robert Eberhart, Kathleen Eisenhardt, and Charles Eesley
WP 323: Saving–Investment Balance and Fiscal Sustainability of Japan: A View from the JGB Market by Tokuo Iwaisako
WP 324: Academic Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Promotion of Information Technology & Computer Science by Robert Cole
WP 325: The Market for Corporate Subsidiaries in Japan: An Empirical Study of Trades Among Listed Firms by Ulrike Schaede and Tatsuo Ushijima
WP 326: Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade by Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato
WP 327: Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry by Serguey Braguinsky, Atsushi Ohyama, Tetsuji Okazaki, and Chad Syverson
WP 328: Does Embeddedness Reduce Innovation and Differentiation? Evidence from the Japanese Microbrewery Industry by Christina Ahmadjian and Jesper Edman
WP 329: Framing From Afar: External Agents and the Construction of the Japanese Ji-Buru Industry by Christina Ahmadjian and Jesper Edman
WP 330: How Much Do Official Price Indexes Tell Us About Inflation? by Jessie Handbury, Tsutomu Watanabe, and David E. Weinstein
WP 331: Five Years Later: Lessons from the Financial Crisis by Jeffrey Shafer
WP 332: Japan Post Insurance: Unjustified Favoritism by Edward Lincoln
WP 333: Nonlinear Pricing of Japanese Newspapers by David Flath
WP 334: Japanese Newspapers by David Flath
WP 335: The Structure and Evolution of Buyer-Supplier Networks by Takayuki Mizuno, Wataru Souma, and Tsutomu Watanabe
WP 336: Spinning Tales About Japanese Cotton Spinning: Saxonhouse (1974) Then And Now by Serguey Braguinsky and David A. Hounshell
WP 337: Explaining the Rise of East Asian Multinationals: State-Industry Links, a Stages Model of Structural Change, and Japan as a Precedent Setter by Terutomo Ozawa
Occasional Papers:
OP 62: Abenomics: Japan's New Economic Policy Package by Hugh Patrick
OP 63: Hagihara Industries Inc. by Hugh Patrick
OP 64: Ryobi Holdings Company and Ryobi Group by Hugh Patrick
OP 65: Insurance Enterprise Risk Management: Toward The Next Generation by Shigeyuki Goto
OP 66: Japan's Abenomics: Recovery Leading to Good Growth? by Hugh Patrick
The Center produced the following papers in 2012-13:
Working Papers:
WP 304: Nice To Be On the A-List by Yasushi Hamao
WP 305: Uninsurable Risk and the Determination of Real Interest Rates: An Investigation Using UK Indexed Bonds by David Barr, Parantap Basu and Kenji Wada
WP 306: Is Japan Really a “Buy”? The Corporate Governance, Cash Holdings, and Economic Performance of Japanese Companies by Kazuo Kato, Meng Li, and Douglas Skinner
WP 307: How Long Will Japanese Government Bond Prices Remain High? by Takeo Hoshi and Takatoshi Ito
WP 308: Policy Options for Japan's Revival by Takeo Hoshi and Anil Kashyap
WP 309: Turning Japanese? Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade to the Current Crisis by Masazumi Wakatabe
WP 310: How Much Do Bank Shocks Affect Investment? Evidence from Matched Bank-Firm Loan Data by Mary Amiti and David E. Weinstein - *updated March 2013*
WP 311: Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration by Daiji Kawaguchi and Soohyung Lee
WP 312: Japan Post Bank: Problematic Issues by Edward Lincoln
WP 313: Syncretism: The Politics of Japan's Financial Reforms by Kenji Kushida and Kay Shimizu
WP 314: Monetary Policy and Transmission of Bubbles by Masaya Sakuragawa and Naoki Shinada
WP 315: Killing Two Birds With One Stone: Board Reforms in the Japanese Electronics Industry by Christina Ahmadjian and Toru Yoshikawa
WP 316: Legal Background to the Low Profitability of Japanese Enterprises by Nobuyuki Kinoshita
WP 317: Information and Export Decisions: Bank's Role as a Conduit of Information by Tomohiko Inui, Keiko Ito, Daisuke Miyakawa, and Keishi Shoji
WP 318: Samsung and LG: From Also-Rans to Dominance in Consumer Electronics by Robert Myers
WP 319: The Dynamics of Multinational Corporation-Impacted Comparative Advantage: Relevancy to Ricardo's View on Cross-border Investment and Samuelson's Skepticism about Globalization by Terutomo Ozawa
WP 320: The Classical Origins of Akamatsu's "Flying-Geese" Theory: A Note on a Missing Link to David Hume by Terutomo Ozawa
Occasional Papers:
OP 60: Built-in Stabilizers and Risk Literacy: Protecting the Sustainability of the Insurance Industry by Shigeyuki Goto
OP 61: Japan’s Sputtering Economic Recovery Amid Heightened Political Turmoil by Hugh Patrick
All WPs and OPs are available at Columbia University Academic Commons, an institutional repository program sponsored by the Columbia University Libraries. These papers are searchable by keyword, or can be found directly in the following categories: