Economics, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba

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• 2009-013 Procurement Auctions with Pre-award Subcontracting
  by Jun Nakabayashi [Downloadable!]
• 2009-012 Do Local Elites Capture Natural Disaster Reconstruction Funds?
  by Yoshito Takasaki [Downloadable!]
• 2009-011 The Rise of the Current Banking System in Japan, 1868-1936
  by Hassouna Moussa & Jiro Obata [Downloadable!]
• 2009-010 Is a Skill Intensity Reversal a Mere Theoretical Curiosum? Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico
  by Yoshinori Kurokawa [Downloadable!]
• 2009-009 Cyclone, Gender, and Ritual
  by Yoshito Takasaki [Downloadable!]
• 2009-008 Fast Computation of European Option Prices via Approximation to their Fourier Transform
  by Hideyuki Takamizawa [Downloadable!]
• 2009-007 Variety-Skill Complementarity: A Simple Resolution of the Trade-Wage Inequality Anomaly
  by Yoshinori Kurokawa [Downloadable!]
• 2009-006 Variety Trade and Skill Premium in a Calibrated General Equilibrium Model: The Case of Mexico
  by Manoj Atolia & Yoshinori Kurokawa [Downloadable!]
• 2009-005 As part of public procurement, many governments adopt small business programs to pro- vide contract opportunities for businesses often with preferences for firms operated by mem- bers of groups designated as disadvantaged. The redistribution arising from such programs, however, can introduce significant added costs to government procurement budgets. In this paper, the extent to which small business set-asides increase government procurement costs is examined. The estimates employ data on Japanese public construction projects, where approximately half of the procurement budget is set aside for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Applying a positive relationship between profitability and firm size obtained by the non-parametric estimation of asymmetric first-price auctions with affiliated private values, a counterfactual simulation is undertaken to demonstrate that approximately 40 percent of SMEs would exit the procurement market if set-asides were to be removed. Surprisingly, the resulting lack of competition would increase government procurement costs more than it would offset the production cost inefficiency
  by Jun Nakabayashi [Downloadable!]
• 2009-004 Targeting of Cyclone Relief within the Village:Kinship, Sharing, and Capture
  by Yoshito Takasaki [Downloadable!]
• 2009-003 Born Under a Lucky Star?
  by Nobuyuki Hanaki & Alan Kirman & Matteo Marsili [Downloadable!]
• 2009-002 Forest and Sea as Insurance among Fijians
  by Yoshito Takasaki [Downloadable!]
• 2009-001 The Effect of Collaboration Network on Inventors' Job Match, Productivity and Tenure
  by Ryo Nakajima & Ryuichi Tamura & Nobuyuki Hanaki [Downloadable!]

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