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Foreign exchange liberalization and exchange rate exposure: Firm-level evidence of the Japanese Automobile Industry 外汇自由化与汇率风险：日本汽车工业的企业层面证据

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101312

Teru Nishikawa , Kiyotaka Sato

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The knowledge transfer patterns of multinational firms: The evidence from Korean firm-level analysis 跨国公司的知识转移模式：来自韩国企业层面分析的证据

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101313

Hyunjung Cho , Gahee Bak , Junyun Kim , Hongshik Lee

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Corrigendum to “A nowcasting model of industrial production using alternative data and machine learning approaches” [Jpn. World Econ. 71 (2024) 101271] “使用替代数据和机器学习方法的工业生产临近预测模型”的勘误表[Jpn。世界经济，71 (2024)101271 [j]

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101297

Kakuho Furukawa , Ryohei Hisano , Yukio Minoura , Tomoyuki Yagi

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Regret aversion in Japanese and U.S. stock markets: Analyzing the effects of market conditions 日本和美国股市的后悔厌恶情绪：分析市场状况的影响

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101311

Somyung Kim , Kiyool Ohk

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Does SME policy enhance the adjustment of trade credit? Evidence from a revision of the Subcontract Act in Japan 中小企业政策是否促进了贸易信贷的调整？来自日本《分包法》修订的证据

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101310

Daisuke Tsuruta

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Influence of exclusive subcontracting on technological innovation: The case of Korean SMEs 独家分包对技术创新的影响：以韩国中小企业为例

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101309

Raehyung Lee , Jinki Hong , Duk Hee Lee , Jay Y. Ohm

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Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of zombie firms arising from the EAS program during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of Japanese SMEs 在 COVID-19 大流行期间，对 EAS 计划所产生的僵尸企业进行事前和事后评估：日本中小企业研究

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101308

Akira Fukuda , Isamu Yamamoto

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Global value chains and exchange rate pass-through into the import prices of Japanese industries 全球价值链和汇率传导到日本产业的进口价格

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101299

Fabien Rondeau , Yushi Yoshida

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Impact of the 2011 earthquake on the real estate market in Tokyo 2011年地震对东京房地产市场的影响

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2025.101298

Naoto Mikawa

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Investigating how inflation expectations affect precautionary wealth 调查通胀预期如何影响预防性财富

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Japan and the World Economy Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2024.101295

Tomohide Mineyama , Kiichi Tokuoka

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