Yonekura, Seiichiro, Takeda, Haruhito（編）『Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan's High-Growth Era』 pp. 153-156
Springer（2016/08/01）
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）
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…
IIR Working Paper
URL：
28th Annual Meeting of SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) （2016/06/24）
Conference Paper: submitted by Karube, Masaru
Study/Lecture Record/Oral History/Conference Paper
URL：
Konno, Yukiko
WP#16-06 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/04/08）
This study examines the reasons for research and development (R&D) inactivity in the Japan’s construction industry. It focuses on the impact of Japan’s public works bid…
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Konno, Yukiko
WP#16-05 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/04/08）
This study employs a multi-product composite cost function to examine whether the major Japanese general contractors obtain scope economies by diversification. The analysis results indicate that the contractors do not obtain scope economies by the sector and client diversification.
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Okada, Yoshimi : Yusuke Naito : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#16-04 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/04/07）
The claim of a patent defines the scope of patent right and provides crucial information on patent value. However, most empirical research uses only the number of claims as an indicator of patent value. We show that the breadth of a claim of Japanese patents, measured by the inverse of claim length, has significant explanatory power fo…
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Dumisani Magadlela
WP#16-03 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/03/31）
This research paper explores selected sub-Saharan African skills development and capacity building priorities needed for the sub-continent to achieve its growth targets …
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Motoko Tsujita
WP#16-02 (in Japanese) Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/03/22）
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Wan, Yunyun(Jiangyun)
WP#16-01 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/01/13）
Facing generic competition, a brand-name drug company sometimes launches its own generic called an "authorized generic"(AG) through a third-party entity. If an authorized party transfers a substantial part of its profits to the brand-name drug company, the letter's total profit increases as a result and every branded drug that comes of…
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Motoko Tsujita
『Hitotsubashi Business Review』 Vol. 63 No. 3 pp. 18-33 (in Japanese) （2015/12/24）
Article
URL：
Article
URL：
Malen, Joel
『Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce and Management』 Vol.49 No.1 pp.37-54 （2015/10/29）
This paper investigates why some firms make more effort to innovate than others. Building on ideas articulated by Edith Penrose in The Theory of the Growth of the Firm (2009), I develop a theoretical framework articulating how the intensity with which firms engage in innovation development to heterogeneity in levels of human and physic…
Article
URL：
Yonekura, Seiichiro
『Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce and Management』 Vol.49 No.1 pp. 1-23 （2015/10/29）
Article
URL：
JETRO Switzerland Newsletter, Issue 78 （2015/10/01）
Aoshima, Yaichi pp.1-2
General Article
URL：
Miyagiwa, Kaz : Yunyun(Jiangyun) Wan
WP#15-21 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2015/09/28）
The merger paradox is revisited in the presence of cost-reducing R&D in Cournot oligopoly. Two cases are found, in which merger is profitable without satisfying the 80-percent threshold requirement of Salant et al (1983).
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Nishiguchi, Toshihiro
『Hitotsubashi Business Review』 Vol. 63 No. 2 P. 89 (in Japanese) （2015/09/24）
Article
URL：
Honjo, Yuji : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#15-20 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2015/09/10）
This paper explores the initial public offering (IPO) and financing of biotechnology start-ups in Japan. Using a unique data set, we find that biotechnology start-ups in…
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Wan, Yunyun(Jiangyun) : Kaz Miyagiwa
WP#15-18 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2015/08/25）
This paper presents a model of generic entry competition that captures salient features of the Hatch-Waxman Act, enacted with two incompaible objectives of restoring inc…
IIR Working Paper
URL：
Tamura, Masaoki : Akira Imaizumi : Takahiko Muramatsu : Nobuhisa Shimba
WP#15-14 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2015/08/03）
This article presents a cost benefit analysis of AminoIndexTM Cancer Screening (AICS) in Japan. AICS is a new cancer diagnosis method based on profiles of amino acids. The cost benefit analysis is performed on each type of cancer, each sex, and each age class. The results indicate that AICS is cost-beneficial mainly for 50-75 years old…
IIR Working Paper
URL：
