This paper analyzes the effect of policies on the Japanese automobile industry before 1945. Japan achieved import substitution of trucks before World War II. It also exported small size passenger cars then. In the process of the development of automobile industry, the government policies seemed...

There are two datasets, one compiled by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the other by the World Bank, containing data on Official Development Assistance (ODA). After examining them closely, we found that there are discrepancies between the two. This article...

In this paper, we take up the Index of Donor Performance (IDP) constructed by the Center for Global Development (CGD), especially, discussing issues of selectivity and project proliferation in the IDP index. We argue theoretical issues of the Index from the aspect of the aid data characteristics

This paper analyzes the elements affecting the transformation of Japan's comparative advantage in the cotton spinning industry from 1868 to 1897. Econometric analysis supports the notion that the economies of scale due to learning-by-doing and externalities influenced the productivity of the...

After reviewing trends in economic growth studies since the mid-1980s, this paper argues the importance of interdisciplinary studies in growth studies. In addition, I present several hypotheses from the perspective of interdisciplinary research on the "long-term stagnation of the Japanese...

Although some theoretical models support the need to protect infant industries, empirical research finds no evidence that such a policy is effective and mainstream economics does not embrace the idea. Empirical research may not be robust, however, and ideology may account for some economists’...