No. 891
Patient Dumping, Outlier Payment, and Optimal Healthcare Payment Policy under Asymmetric Information
Tsuyoshi Takahara
Decemberr 2013, Revised October 2014
No. 890
Welfare-Enhancing Parental Altruism and Children’s Habit Formation
Lin Zhang and Shinsuke Ikeda
November 2013. Revised August 2016.(Originally entitled "Thankworthy Parental Altruism and Children’s Habit-Formation.")
No. 889
Corporate Cash Holding in Asia
Charles Yuji Horioka and Akiko Terada-Hagiwara
October 2013
No. 888
Why Has Japan’s Massive Government Debt Not Wreaked Havoc (Yet)?
Charles Yuji Horioka, Takaaki Nomoto and Akiko Terada-Hagiwara
October 2013, Revised January 2014
No. 887
Time Preference and Dynamic Stability in an N-Country World Economy
Ken-Ichi Hirose and Shinsuke Ikeda
September 2013
No. 886
General Equilibrium Dynamics with Naïve and Sophisticated Hyperbolic Consumers in an Overlapping Generations Economy
Takeshi Ojima
September 2013, Revised January 2014 (The 16th ISER-Moriguchi Prize (2013) Awarded Paper)
No. 885
Time Discounting, Present Biases, and Health-Related Behavior
Myong-Il Kang and Shinsuke Ikeda
September 2013
No. 884
Bertrand Competition under Network Externalities
Masaki Aoyagi
September 2013, Revised May 2014
No. 883
English as a Gateway? Immigration and Public Opinion in Japan
David Green and Yoshihiko Kadoya
September 2013
No. 882
Decreasing Marginal Impatience and Capital Accumulation in a Two-country World Economy
Ken-Ichi Hirose and Shinsuke Ikeda
August 2013
No. 881
Market Competition and Supplier-Induced Demands: Analyzing Medical Expense from Micro-Data in Japan, ( in Japanese: 「市場競争と供給者誘発需要―医療費支出のマイクロデータ分析」 )
Yoshihiko Kadoya and Toshiki Kodera
August 2013
No. 880
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No. 879
Multilayered Tournaments
Junichiro Ishida
August 2013
No. 878
How Does Downstream Firms' Efficiency Affect Exclusive Supply Agreements?
Hiroshi Kitamura, Noriaki Matsushima, and Misato Sato
August 2013. Revised September 2015
No. 877
Waiting for Signalling Quality
Hikmet Gunay
July 2013
No. 876
Appraising the Unhappiness due to the Great East Japan Earthquake: Evidence from Weekly Panel Data on Subjective Well-being
Supplementary Note
Fumio Ohtake and Katsunori Yamada
July 2013
No. 875
Who Benefits from Resale-Below-Cost Laws?
Noriaki Matsushima and Akira Miyaoka
June 2013
No. 874
The Minimum Approval Mechanism Implements the Efficient Public Good Allocation Theoretically and Experimentally
Takehito Masuda, Yoshitaka Okano, and Tatsuyoshi Saijo
May 2013. Revised September 2013.
No. 873
Auctions Versus Negotiations: The Role of Price Discrimination
Chia-Hui Chen and Junichiro Ishida
May 2013
No. 872
Reform of Public Pension System and Anxiety after Retirement: An Econometric Analysis of Household Micro Data, (in Japanese: 「年金制度改正と老後不安:家計のミクロデータによる分析」)
Kazuo Ogawa and Shizuka Sekita
May 2013
No. 871
Unemployment and Human Capital Formation in School Education: An Econometric Analysis of Prefectural Panel Data, (in Japanese: 「失業と学校教育における人的資本形成:都道府県別パネルデータによる計量分析」)
Kazuo Ogawa
May 2013
No. 870
Towards an Age-Friendly City: The Constraints Preventing the Elderly’s Participation in Community Programs in Akita City
Yoshihiko Kadoya
April 2013
No. 869
Should Firms Employ Personalized Pricing?
Toshihiro Matsumura and Noriaki Matsushima
March 2013
No. 868
Cultual Transmission of Diligence: Parenting and Parental Worldview, (in Japanese:「勤勉さの文化伝達―親のしつけと世界観」)
Kohei Kubota and Masao Ogaki
March 2013
No. 867
Caste comparisons: Evidence from India
Xavier Fontaine and Katsunori Yamada
March 2013
No. 866
The Joneses in Japan: Income Comparisons and Financial Satisfaction
Andrew Clark, Claudia Senik, and Katsunori Yamada
March 2013
No. 865
Tariffs versus Production Subsidies as Industry Protection
Yoshitomo Ogawa and Yoshiyasu Ono
February 2013
No. 864
Port Privatization in an International Oligopoly
Noriaki Matsushima and Kazuhiro Takauchi
February 2013
No. 863
A Formal Behavioral Model of Firm Boundaries: Why Does Authority Relation Mitigate Ex Post Adaptation Problems?
Yusuke Mori
January 2013 (The 15th ISER-Moriguchi Prize (2012) Awarded Paper)