Environmental regulation and international expansion of MNEs: The moderating role of pollution reduction resources and firm multinationality on location choice

Malen, Joel : Junichi Yamanoi
WP#16-13 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/12/07）

We examine how stronger environmental regulations influence MNE international expansion decisions by attending to two sources of firm heterogeneity that moderate this effect: possession of pollution reduction capabilities and firm multinationality. Empirical tests on 523 cases of international manufacturing expansion into 49 potential …

Did China’s Coal Mine Regulation Positively Affect Economic Growth?

Xu, Hangtian : Kentaro Nakajima
『Resources Policy』 Vol.50 pp. 160-168 （2016/12/01）

In response to high mortality rates and low productivity in coal mining, China began regulating coal mines in the 1990s, reshaping its coal economy. We investigate the relationship between coal mine regulation and economic growth. Using the difference-in-difference approach to compare the pre- and post-regulation periods as well as reg…

Contribution of Patent Examination to Making the Patent Scope Consistent with the Invention: Evidence from Japan

Okada, Yoshimi : Yusuke Naito : Sadao Nagaoka
RIETI Discussion Paper 16-E-092 Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) （2016/11/29）

Delineating the patent scope consistently with the contribution of the disclosed invention is one of the most crucial requirements for a patent system to promote innovation effectively. Given the incentive of an applicant to set a scope for the patent as broad as possible, an important task of the Patent Office is to narrow it so that …

Landscape of Standard Essential Patents: Case of East Asian Firms

The 7th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference （2016/11/18）

Conference Paper: submitted by Dang, Jianwei, Byeongwoo Kang and Ke Ding

Multi-region Job Search with Moving Costs

Kawata, Keisuke : Kentaro Nakajima : Yasuhiro Sato
『Regional Science and Urban Economics』 Vol.61 pp. 114-129 （2016/11/01）

We develop a competitive search model involving multiple regions, geographically mobile workers, and moving costs. Equilibrium mobility patterns are analyzed and characterized, and the results indicate that shocks to a particular region, such as a productivity shock, can propagate to other regions through workers' mobility. Moreover, e…

Descriptive analysis of the knowledge network formation in East Asia

Nabeshima, Kaoru : Byeongwoo Kang : Mila Kashcheeva
『Technology in Society』 Vol.47 pp. 66-100 （2016/11/01）

This paper shows descriptively how the knowledge network in East Asia has been formed. In addition, the correlation between the knowledge network and economic growth is also examined. Evidence is provided to show that plugging into the knowledge network of developed economies could be a key for increasing innovativeness in an economy.

Landscape of standard essential patents: The case of East Asian countries

Dang, Jianwei : Byeongwoo Kang : Ke Ding
WP#16-12 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/10/19）

Technical standards in the mobile communications industry have been developed from national to regional and from regional to global. In the current era, global standards…

Innovation and the Merger Paradox

Miyagiwa, Kaz: Yunyun (Jiangyun) Wan
『Economics Letters』 Volume 147 October 2016 pp. 5-7 （2016/10/01）

The merger paradox in Cournot oligopoly is revisited in the presence of R&D investment. Two cases are presented in which firms merge profitably without satisfying the 80-percent threshold requirement of Salant et al. (1983).

Mobilizing Scarce Resource through Social Networks: Exploring Mechanism that Accelerated the Growth of the Chinese PV Industry

PICMET'16 "Technology Management for Social Innovation" （2016/09/07）

Conference Paper: submitted by Aoshima, Yaichi, Wen Wang and Jinwel Zhu

Innovation Created from Differences in Regulations: A Case Study of the Electric-Assist Bicycle

PICMET'16 "Technology Management for Social Innovation" （2016/09/06）

Conference Paper: submitted by Eto, Manabu

An alternative to the standardized approach for assessing credit risk under the Basel Accords

Konno, Yukiko : Yuki Itoh
『Cogent Economics & Finance』 Vol.4 No.1,1220119 1－13 （2016/08/19）

Testing for localization: A new approach

Murata, Yasusada : Ryo Nakajima : Ryuichi Tamura
WP#16-11 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/08/19）

Recent empirical studies document that knowledge spillovers attenuate and industry localization decays with distance. It is thus imperative to detect localization accurately especially at short distances. We propose a new approach to testing for localization that corrects the first-order bias at and near the boundary in existing method…

Reverse payments and generic entry competition

Wan, Yunyun (Jiangyun)
WP#16-09 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/08/19）

In the United States, brand-name drug manufacturers often pay generic companies to delay marketing of their generic products. In this paper we develop an analytical framework to examine the implications of banning reverse payment settlements. We first find that reverse payment settlements occur when generic firms face relatively high e…

A creative city planning framework by a private company: Case study of the development of Futako-Tamagawa by Tokyu

Konno, Yukiko : Yuki Itoh
WP#16-10 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/08/19）

While most studies of the creative city focus on the policy of governance or local governance, we study the creative city framework led by a private company. Concretely,…

Overcoming Organizational Silos: Role of New Clients in Post-Merger Integration

76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management （2016/08/09）

Conference Paper: submitted by Karube, Masaru

Today's Oral History: Ghosn Reforms and the Power of CFTs as Explained by Mr. Jun-ichi Endo Who Became the Second Youngest Managing Director from within in Nissan's History

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Satoru Oguchi
WP#16-08 (in Japanese) Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/08/09）

Review of Juroh Hashimoto, Sengo Nihon Keizai no Seichou Kouzou: Kigyō System to Sangyō Seisaku no Bunseki (The Structure of Postwar Japan's Economic Growth: an Analysis of Enterprise Systems and Industrial Policy)

Yonekura, Seiichiro, Takeda, Haruhito（編）『Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan's High-Growth Era』 pp. 153-156
Springer（2016/08/01）

Community Capital: The Prosperity and Limits of China’s Wenzhou Entrepreneurial Networks

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Motoko Tsujita
Yuhikaku, 458 pages (The Shoko Research Institute’s (SRI) prestigious Annual Award for Outstanding Studies on Small Business 2017 and the Tadao Kiyonari’s JASVE Award 2017)（2016/07/31）

Global spread of pharmaceutical patent protections: micro evidence from the international equivalents of the drug patents in Japan

Okada, Yoshimi : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#16-07 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/07/13）

We investigate the global spread of pharmaceutical patent protections as acquired by firms, based on a novel global patent database for all significant medical drugs introduced in Japan. It gives us the propensity of filing and grant rate for each country for the granted patents in Japan. Major findings are the following. Both the fili…

Is Higher Status an Indicator of Higher Quality? Evidence from Japanese Audit Industry, 2002-2014

28th Annual Meeting of SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) （2016/06/24）

Conference Paper: submitted by Karube, Masaru