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Employment Policy and Corporate Governance: An Empirical Comparison of the Stakeholder versus the Profit-Maximization model
Abe, Naohito; Shimizutani, Satoshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2005
Japan's economic problems over the past decade and a half have triggered far reaching changes in the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783932
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Do Households Smooth Expenditure over Anticipated Income Changes? Evidence from Bonus Payments to Public Employees in Japan
Hori, Masahiro; Shimizutani, Satoshi - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2011
This paper provides new evidence of consumers’ reaction to an anticipated sizable change in income. Until FY2002, Japanese public employees received predictable large bonus payments three times a fiscal year (in June, December, and March), but the March bonus was abolished in FY2003. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393167
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Exploring the causal relationship between length of stay in hospitals and treatment outcome: Evidence from Japanese AMI patients
Shimizutani, Satoshi; Yamada, Hiroyuki; Noguchi, Haruko; … - Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), … - 2013
for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) patients in Japan, where the average LOS (ALOS) is the longest among OECD countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696124
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Revisiting the labor supply effect of social security earnings test: New evidence from its elimination and reinstatement in Japan
Shimizutani, Satoshi; Oshio, Takashi - In: Japan and the World Economy 28 (2013) C, pp. 99-111
We explore the labor supply effect of the social security earnings test in Japan on those aged 65–69 years through a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730201
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Do households smooth expenditure over anticipated income changes? Evidence from bonus payments to public employees in Japan
Hori, Masahiro; Shimizutani, Satoshi - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 26 (2012) 3, pp. 405-433
This paper provides new evidence of consumers’ reaction to an anticipated sizable change in income. Until FY2002, Japanese public employees received predictable large bonus payments three times a fiscal year (in June, December, and March), but the March bonus was abolished in FY2003. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010869515
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'By a Silken Thread': regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Regional differences in banking integration determined how Japan's Great Recession after 1990 spread across the country …. We explain these differences with the emergence of silk reeling as the main export industry after Japan's opening to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186035
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A new anatomy of the retirement process in Japan
Shimizutani, Satoshi - In: Japan and the World Economy 23 (2011) 3, pp. 141-152
In Japan, retirement is a gradual process that transpires over a particularly long period of time. Using large scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010577671
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'By a Silken Thread': regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures’ different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan’s opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603547
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'By a Silken Thread': Regional Banking Integration and Pathways to Financial Development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - CESifo - 2013
How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures’ different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan’s opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607005
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The carbon dioxide emissions of firms: A spatial analysis
Cole, Matthew A.; Elliott, Robert J.R.; Okubo, Toshihiro; … - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2013) 2, pp. 290-309
) emissions. Focussing on Japan, the paper also examines whether firms' CO2 emissions are influenced by the emissions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636087