Springing Forward and Falling Back on Health: The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Acute Myocardial Infarction

Tanaka, Shinsuke：Hideto Koizumi
medRxiv （2022/07/08）

We examine the effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) over three distinct time frames: short, medium, and long run. By exploiting the unique circumstances in Indiana, our findings highlight substantial short-term costs of increased AMI admissions at the spring transition by 27.2%, wh…

Multilayer patent citation networks: A comprehensive analytical framework for studying explicit technological relationships

Higham, Kyle: Martina Contisciani: Caterina De Bacco
『Technological Forecasting and Social Change』 Vol. 179 （2022/06/01）

The use of patent citation networks as research tools is becoming increasingly commonplace in the field of innovation studies. However, these networks rarely consider the contexts in which these citations are generated and are generally restricted to a single jurisdiction. Here, we propose and explore the use of a multilayer network fr…

The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement in Japanese Print Media: A “Cars-for-Cheese-Deal” or “the Black Ships of European Cheese”? Conference Paper: submitted by Walravens, Tine and Ivar Padrón-Hernández

Conference of the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society （2022/05/01）

On February 1st, 2019, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EJEPA) entered into force. The agreement was lauded in terms such as “the world’s largest free trade …

Disaster reactions of self-initiated and organizational expatriates. 2nd International Conference on Self-Initiated Expatriation

Global Mobility of Employees (GLOMO) （2022/04/12）

Conference Paper: submitted by Padrón-Hernández, Ivar

The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data

Miyauchi, Yuhei： Kentaro Nakajima： Stephen J. Redding
No. 28497 NBER Working Paper （2022/04/01）

The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement in Japanese Print Media: A “Cars-for-Cheese-Deal” or “the Black Ships of European Cheese”? Conference Paper: submitted by Walravens, Tine and Ivar Padrón-Hernández

Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation Conference (SJSF) （2022/03/01）

On February 1st, 2019, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EJEPA) entered into force. The agreement was lauded in terms such as “the world’s largest free trade …

The Role of Face-to-face Contact in Innovation: The Evidence from the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Japan

Inoue, Hiroyasu： Kentaro Nakajima： Tetsuji Okazaki： Yukiko Umeno Saito
22-E-026 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2022/03/01）

On the Use of Satellite-Based Vehicle Flows Data to Assess Local Economic Activity: The Case of Philippine Cities

Go, Eugenia： Kentaro Nakajima： Yasuyuki Sawada： Kiyoshi Taniguchi
No. 652 ADB Economics Working Paper Series （2022/03/01）

Local Labor Market Effects of Chinese Imports and Offshoring: Evidence from Matched-Foreign Affiliate-Domestic Parent-Domestic Plant Data in Japan

Kiyota, Kozo： Kentaro Nakajima： Miho Takizawa
22-E-13 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2022/03/01）

Determinants of Contract Renewals in University–Industry Contract Research: Going my Way, or Good Sam?

Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Tohru: Makiko Takahashi, in Azagra-Caro, Joaquín M., Pablo D'Este and David Barberá-Tomás, eds. （編）『University-Industry Knowledge Interactions: People, Tensions and Impact (International Studies in Entrepreneurship Volume 52)』 Chap. 6, pp. 89-110
Springer（2022/02/22）

Patent citation generation at the triadic offices: Mechanisms and implications for analysis.

Higham, Kyle: Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi
4022851 SSRN Working Paper （2022/02/03）

Patent citations have been used for over four decades as indicators of numerous aspects of technological progress, including knowledge flows, technological evolution, and patent impact. However, research on these topics often ignores the variable contexts in which examiners, applicants, and third parties generate these citations, and t…

The Roles of Structured Management in the Formation of Transactional Relationship

Imani, Yusuke: Atsushi Ohyama
E-2021-07 TDB-CAREE Discussion Paper Series （2022/02/01）

Product Innovation, Product Diversification and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization

Braginsky, Serguey: Atsushi Ohyama: Tetsuji Okazakii: Chad Syverson
『American Economic Review』 Vol. 111 No. 12 pp. 3795-3826 （2021/12/01）

Economic sociology in Japan

Nakano Tsutomu: Masaru Karube: Yoshimichi Sato: Naoki Wakabayashi
『economic sociology. perspectives and conversations』 23 1 11-18 （2021/11/30）

Economic sociology is an established field in the Western tradition of sociology. Departing from the instrumental rationality of neoclassical economics (Weber 1968), it has made a breakthrough with its foundational conception that economic action of individuals constructs social structures and these social structures heavily influence …

Estimating the Impact of Land Use Regulation on Land Price: At the Kink Point of Building Height Limits in Fukuoka

Nakajima, Kentaro： Keisuke Takano
21-E-88 RIETI Discussion Paper Series　21-E-88 （2021/10/01）

Management practices and productivity in Japan: Evidence from six industries in JP MOPS

Kambayashi, Ryo: Atsushi Ohyama: Nobuko Hori
『Journal of the Japanese and International Economies』 Volume 61 （2021/09/01）

Determinants of contract renewals in university–industry contract research: Going my way, or good Sam?

Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi and Makiko Takahashi, Springer （2021/09/01）

Long-term university–industry contract research benefits both universities and the industry, as it can potentially reduce transaction costs and improve the quality of su…

Trends in Gender Pay Gaps of Scientists and Engineers in Academia and Industry

Waverly W. Ding: Atsushi Ohyama: Rajshree Agarwal
『Nature Biotechnology』 39 1019-1024 （2021/08/01）

Robust disruptors and incumbent capabilities in the Japanese taxi industry, Conference Paper: submitted by Padrón-Hernández, Ivar and Masahiro Kotosaka

Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) （2021/07/03）

The ongoing disruption in taxi services by international ride sharing platforms is highly publicized. Recent research in strategic management (e.g. Baron, 2018) has show…

Introducing a Novelty Indicator for Scientific Research: Validating the Knowledge-based Combinatorial Approach

Matsumoto, Kuniko: Sotaro Shibayama: Byeongwoo Kang: Masatsura Igami
『Scientometrics』 Vol. 126 No. 8 pp. 6891-6915 （2021/06/23）

Citation counts have long been considered as the primary bibliographic indicator for evaluating the quality of research—a practice premised on the assumption that citati…