Humanities & Social Sciences

1 Abe, K. ; Zhao, L.
(Graduate School of Economics)
Endogenous International Joint Ventures and the Environment
Journal of International Economics, 67, 221-240 (2005)

This paper examines the welfare effects of emission taxes under a choice between an international joint venture and a full-ownership foreign direct investment by parent firms from a developed country and a developing country. If the developing country has a poor abatement technology, its best policy is to impose a relatively high emission tax to attract a full-ownership FDI. If it has a good technology, the best policy is to impose a low emission tax to attract the international JV.


2 Hirai, K. ; Miyashita, M.; Morita, T., Sanjyo, M.; Uchitomi, Y.
(Center for the Study of Communication Design, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine)
Good Death in Japanese Cancer Care: a Qualitative Study
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 31, 140-147 (2005)

The primary aim of this study was to identify the components of Japanese “Good death”, as one of most important goals of palliative care, through qualitative interviews of 13 cancer patients, 10 patients’ families, 20 physicians and 20 nurses. Content analysis extracted 58 attributes, which were classified into 17 categories. The most frequently cited category was “Freedom from pain or physical/psychological symptoms” and the least common was “Having faith.” This study identified important components of good death in Japan.


3 Ikeda, S.
(Institute of Social and Economic Research)
Luxury and Wealth
International Economic Review, 47, 495-526 (2006)


4 Mino, K. ; Shimomura, K.; Wang, P.
(Graduate School of Economics)
Occupational Choice and Dynamic Indeterminacy
Review of Economic Dynamics, 8, 138-153 (2005)

This paper constructs a two-sector model of two-period lived overlapping generations with endogenous occupational choice where agents with heterogeneous abilities choose whether to become educated when young and henceforth to become skilled when old. We show that, in contrast to the standard one-sector model, endogenous occupational choice in this two-sector framework can result in dynamic indeterminacy without complicate preferences/technologies and without requiring the consumption-good production to be more capital-intensive.


5 Morikawa, K.
(Graduate School of Human Sciences)
Adaptation to Asymmetrically Distorted Faces and Its Lack of Effect on Mirror Images
Vision Research, 45, 3180-3188 (2005).


6 Oba, Y.
(Graduate School of Letters)
The Double Object Construction and the Extraction of the Indirect Object
Linguistic Analysis, 32, 40-71 (2005)


7 Ono, Y. ; Shibata, A.
(Institute of Social and Economic Research)
Fiscal Spending, Relative-Price Dynamics, and Welfare in a World Economy
Review of International Economics, 13, 216-236 (2005)

We consider a dynamic two-country model with international commodity and asset trade in which foreign asset holdings and capital accumulation are independently determined by households and firms respectively. In this setting we examine the effects of fiscal spending on the whole trajectories of interest rates and prices and thereby obtain how each country’s lifetime utility is affected. We find that the welfare effect consists of the static terms-of-trade effect, the dynamic foreign asset effect and the direct income-loss effect.


8 Yamamoto, K.
(Graduate School of Economics)
A Two-region Model with Two Types of Manufacturing Technologies and Agglomeration
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 35, 808-836 (2005)

A two-region model is proposed in this paper. Manufactured goods can be produced with cottage technology under constant returns to scale or with modern technology using differentiated intermediate goods, which are produced with increasing returns to scale technology. In the model, there may be multiple equilibria, and, in such cases, the initial conditions determine the equilibrium that the economy reaches. It is shown that strong increasing returns due to specialization and low transportation costs bring about industrialization with agglomeration. This framework explains the mechanism behind the different industrialization process in Japan and in less developed countries.


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