As for recent Japanese bank behavior, there exist two inefficacies. One is credit crunch, that is, banks hesitate to lend money to new good projects. The other is excessive additional loan to bad-performing firms. These two perverse bank behaviors look like contradictive each other. In this...

In this paper, we consider the tenure choice problem under different schemes of legal tenancy protection. We analyze the interaction between the rental and resale housing markets under conditions of bilateral asymmetric information regarding housing quality and the type of residents. Home...

Recently, inventors of research and development (R&D) firms have filed lawsuits for "reasonable remuneration" against the firms. Firms have begun to revise their reward systems to better reward researchers and preempt litigation. In the Olympus case, the court judged that inventors have an ex...