This study aims to analyze the impact of top managers’ skills on firm performance, particularly emphasizing their previous tenure in CEO positions in other firms. We assume that managers with previous managerial experience in other firms possess management skills. The study analyzes changes in the performance of firms that experience managerial turnover from managers without managerial skills to those who possess them, using propensity score matching with a difference-in-difference approach. We confirm that turnover from managers without management skills to those who possess them results in better performance.
{"title":"CEO skill and firm performance","authors":"Katsuyuki Kubo , Takuya Kiriu , Shigeru Uchigasaki , Susumu Seko , Hiroaki Yamauchi","doi":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to analyze the impact of top managers’ skills on firm performance, particularly emphasizing their previous tenure in CEO positions in other firms. We assume that managers with previous managerial experience in other firms possess management skills. The study analyzes changes in the performance of firms that experience managerial turnover from managers without managerial skills to those who possess them, using propensity score matching with a difference-in-difference approach. We confirm that turnover from managers without management skills to those who possess them results in better performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47082,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Japanese and International Economies","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101380"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144517490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101368
Ichiro Fukunaga , Yosuke Kido , Kotaro Suita
In this paper, we analyze the effects of domestic and global factors on Japan's consumer price inflation, inflation expectations and nominal wages from the late 1990s to the post-pandemic period, using structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models with short- and long-run zero and sign restrictions. We find that global shocks, including global supply, demand, and monetary policy shocks, account for about 40 % and 30 % of variance in four-quarter-ahead headline (excluding fresh food) and core inflation, respectively, and the importance of global shocks increases when post-pandemic data are included. Historical decompositions show that various types of global shocks, including downward cost pressure due to globalization reflected in positive global supply shocks, had persistently pushed down Japan’s consumer price inflation until the late 2010s. Subsequently, their contribution turned positive, both global supply and demand shocks significantly pushing up inflation, especially in the high-inflation phase after the pandemic. In addition, we find that services prices and nominal wages were also pushed up significantly by global shocks in the post-pandemic period.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101378
Sachiko Kuroda , Koichiro Onishi
This study uses deidentified bank data from a Japanese megabank to analyze how the economic downturn affected labor supply in the platform economy. Specifically, we identify gig workers based on deposit information from food delivery platform services and examine changes in their labor supply before and after the pandemic. Individuals who take on food delivery gig work typically exhibit three characteristics: they are predominantly young, male, and have low liquidity. About 32 percent of these workers had liquidity below zero, excluding gig income, and 27 % had liquidity below 50,000 yen (approximately 335 USD), indicating that many face severe liquidity constraints. Additionally, liquidity tends to gradually decline in the months leading up to gig work. While there is an increased probability of entering the gig market, the likelihood of workers staying drops to 60–70 % in the first month, suggesting the gig market serves mainly as a temporary income-smoothing mechanism. Interestingly, the average liquidity balance in the first month for those who started gig work during the COVID-19 recession was higher than for those who began gig work during the pre-pandemic boom. In addition, the decline in liquidity before starting gig work was smaller during the COVID-19 recession compared to the pre-COVID boom. Although it was expected that participation during the downturn would be driven by those facing liquidity constraints, the data shows that even individuals with some financial leeway entered the gig market during recessions.
{"title":"Digital labor platform under the boom and bust: Bank account data insights","authors":"Sachiko Kuroda , Koichiro Onishi","doi":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101378","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study uses deidentified bank data from a Japanese megabank to analyze how the economic downturn affected labor supply in the platform economy. Specifically, we identify gig workers based on deposit information from food delivery platform services and examine changes in their labor supply before and after the pandemic. Individuals who take on food delivery gig work typically exhibit three characteristics: they are predominantly young, male, and have low liquidity. About 32 percent of these workers had liquidity below zero, excluding gig income, and 27 % had liquidity below 50,000 yen (approximately 335 USD), indicating that many face severe liquidity constraints. Additionally, liquidity tends to gradually decline in the months leading up to gig work. While there is an increased probability of entering the gig market, the likelihood of workers staying drops to 60–70 % in the first month, suggesting the gig market serves mainly as a temporary income-smoothing mechanism. Interestingly, the average liquidity balance in the first month for those who started gig work during the COVID-19 recession was higher than for those who began gig work during the pre-pandemic boom. In addition, the decline in liquidity before starting gig work was smaller during the COVID-19 recession compared to the pre-COVID boom. Although it was expected that participation during the downturn would be driven by those facing liquidity constraints, the data shows that even individuals with some financial leeway entered the gig market during recessions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47082,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Japanese and International Economies","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101378"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101375
Shin-ichi Fukuda
Monetary policy is a powerful policy tool in stabilizing short-term economic fluctuations. However, no matter how effective it is, it could have unintended adverse impacts on the economy if the central bank continued extreme monetary easing over a long period of time. Japan is an exceptional country where such concern exists. This paper analyzes the effects of unconventional monetary policy in Japan since the end of the 1990s. We explore the effects not only on stabilizing short-term macroeconomic fluctuations such as the GDP gap, but also on medium- and long-term productivity such as total factor productivity (TFP). If the prolonged ultra-low interest rate environment distorts the price mechanism and causes misallocation of funds, the unconventional monetary policy could reduce the productivity of the economy. The estimation results show that the Bank of Japan (BOJ)'s unconventional monetary policy had a significant positive impact on the GDP gap even under a liquidity trap where the policy rate hit its effective lower bound (ELB). However, they also show that unconventional monetary policy had a significant negative impact on TFP growth. The results suggest that while unconventional monetary policy was effective in boosting the economy in the short term, the prolonged ultra-low interest rate environment may have had a negative impact on medium- and long-term productivity growth in the Japanese economy.
{"title":"Short-run and long-run consequences of unconventional monetary policy in Japan","authors":"Shin-ichi Fukuda","doi":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Monetary policy is a powerful policy tool in stabilizing short-term economic fluctuations. However, no matter how effective it is, it could have unintended adverse impacts on the economy if the central bank continued extreme monetary easing over a long period of time. Japan is an exceptional country where such concern exists. This paper analyzes the effects of unconventional monetary policy in Japan since the end of the 1990s. We explore the effects not only on stabilizing short-term macroeconomic fluctuations such as the GDP gap, but also on medium- and long-term productivity such as total factor productivity (TFP). If the prolonged ultra-low interest rate environment distorts the price mechanism and causes misallocation of funds, the unconventional monetary policy could reduce the productivity of the economy. The estimation results show that the Bank of Japan (BOJ)'s unconventional monetary policy had a significant positive impact on the GDP gap even under a liquidity trap where the policy rate hit its effective lower bound (ELB). However, they also show that unconventional monetary policy had a significant negative impact on TFP growth. The results suggest that while unconventional monetary policy was effective in boosting the economy in the short term, the prolonged ultra-low interest rate environment may have had a negative impact on medium- and long-term productivity growth in the Japanese economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47082,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Japanese and International Economies","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101375"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144189856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101367
Akira Fukuda
A cohort that struggles to enter the labor market during economic downturns may struggle to secure stable employment and income throughout their lives. The “Ice Age” cohorts are ones that entered the Japanese labor market during the prolonged economic recession between 1993 and 2004. This study examines the performance of startups established by the Ice Age cohorts. With limited job opportunities, some Ice Age cohorts likely attempted to start their businesses as an alternative means of income. Using a panel survey of startups, we examine the performance of such attempts. Startups established by the Ice Age cohorts had significantly higher survival rates than those established by the “bubble” cohorts that entered the labor market during the economic boom. However, among the surviving startups, those established by the Ice Age cohorts with junior college or vocational school backgrounds underperform relative to the bubble cohorts. These results suggest that the Ice Age cohorts faced limited employment opportunities in the labor market upon entry and were forced to continue operating their businesses under suboptimal performance conditions.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101365
Yasuyuki Todo , Shuhei Nishitateno , Sean Brown
This paper investigates the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on foreign direct investment (FDI) from China and other major source countries, such as the United States (US), France, and Japan, by applying staggered difference-in-differences (DID) event study estimations to a gravity model. In addition to estimations using country-pair fixed effects, we estimate models with source and host country-year fixed effects to control for the effect through changes in any host country attribute due to the BRI, such as infrastructure, and highlight the effect through changes in bilateral relationships. We find that FDI from China, Hong Kong SAR, the US, Switzerland, Japan, and France to BRI countries increased in the post-BRI period, whereas FDI from the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, and Luxembourg decreased. After controlling for country-year fixed effects, there remains a post-BRI upward trend in FDI from the US, Switzerland, and France and a downward trend in FDI from the UK, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. These findings suggest that FDI from non-China countries to BRI countries can be affected by their bilateral relationships. For example, the US may have invested more in BRI countries to strategically compete with China in those locations, whereas France and Switzerland may have done so because of investment cooperation with China in Africa.
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Recent geopolitical tensions have generated various uncertainties in cross-border economic activities. A major concern is how far export control regulations by the US and its allies would decouple supply chains. This study empirically investigates the trade effects of export control regulations by Japan initiated on July 23, 2023. The regulations restrict exports of 22 items of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) and one item of semiconductor inspection equipment (SIE), implicitly focusing on Japan’s exports to China. Our empirical analysis employs the monthly data of Japanese exports and Chinese imports. Our findings can be summarized as follows. First, the export restrictions significantly decreased exports of some SME products from Japan to China but increased those of some other SME products. Second, we found insignificant changes in the exports of SIE from Japan to China when controlling for various elements in China, but those exports were found to increase significantly when controlling for various elements in Japan. These results suggest that when we empirically examine the trade effect of export control regulations against China, it is crucially important to use the trade statistics at the finest product level possible and to control for confounding factors in China as much as possible.
{"title":"The trade effects of export control regulations in Japan","authors":"Kazunobu HAYAKAWA , Fukunari KIMURA , Kenta YAMANOUCHI","doi":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent geopolitical tensions have generated various uncertainties in cross-border economic activities. A major concern is how far export control regulations by the US and its allies would decouple supply chains. This study empirically investigates the trade effects of export control regulations by Japan initiated on July 23, 2023. The regulations restrict exports of 22 items of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) and one item of semiconductor inspection equipment (SIE), implicitly focusing on Japan’s exports to China. Our empirical analysis employs the monthly data of Japanese exports and Chinese imports. Our findings can be summarized as follows. First, the export restrictions significantly decreased exports of some SME products from Japan to China but increased those of some other SME products. Second, we found insignificant changes in the exports of SIE from Japan to China when controlling for various elements in China, but those exports were found to increase significantly when controlling for various elements in Japan. These results suggest that when we empirically examine the trade effect of export control regulations against China, it is crucially important to use the trade statistics at the finest product level possible and to control for confounding factors in China as much as possible.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47082,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Japanese and International Economies","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101366"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143918160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101364
Jota Ishikawa , Toshihiro Okubo
Technology holders may have strategic incentive to offer licensing contracts that deter (potential) rivals from conducting their own R&D. This study develops a simple model of technology licensing from a foreign firm to a home firm, in which R&D serves as an alternative means for the home firm to enter the market. We first derive the optimal licensing fees with differentiated goods and two-part tariffs. Depending on parameter values, three types of licensing contracts can emerge: (i) by means of a fixed fee alone, (ii) by means of a royalty alone, and (iii) by means of a combination of a fixed fee and a royalty. We then specifically investigate intervention by the home government: withholding taxes on royalties and R&D subsidies. A withholding tax may improve home welfare without imposing any burden on the home firm and consumers. Committing itself to an R&D subsidy, the home government can reduce licensing fees without any cost.
{"title":"Cross-border technology licensing with R&D Opportunity and Government Intervention","authors":"Jota Ishikawa , Toshihiro Okubo","doi":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101364","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101364","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Technology holders may have strategic incentive to offer licensing contracts that deter (potential) rivals from conducting their own R&D. This study develops a simple model of technology licensing from a foreign firm to a home firm, in which R&D serves as an alternative means for the home firm to enter the market. We first derive the optimal licensing fees with differentiated goods and two-part tariffs. Depending on parameter values, three types of licensing contracts can emerge: (i) by means of a fixed fee alone, (ii) by means of a royalty alone, and (iii) by means of a combination of a fixed fee and a royalty. We then specifically investigate intervention by the home government: withholding taxes on royalties and R&D subsidies. A withholding tax may improve home welfare without imposing any burden on the home firm and consumers. Committing itself to an R&D subsidy, the home government can reduce licensing fees without any cost.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47082,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Japanese and International Economies","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101364"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143835191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101363
Ikuto Aiba , Daisuke Hasegawa
This study examines the impact of flooding on real estate transactions in an urban area using the flooding caused by Typhoon Hagibis, which hit Japan in October 2019, as a natural experiment. Applying the difference-in-differences method, we find that the contract and offer prices of properties in flooded areas declined by about 6.0% and 5.5% on average, respectively. These price drops indicate an approximately 0.5 percentage point rise in the discount rate, which is defined as the percentage change from the offer to contract prices. Regarding apartment transactions, we show that the negative effects are significant for higher floors but insignificant for lower floors. This suggests the possibility that buyers have become more aware that higher floors are also vulnerable to flooding, given the flood-associated risks of power and water outages. The findings also reveal that the negative effects of flooding on detached houses are more serious and emerge more slowly than those on apartments.
{"title":"The impact of flooding on real estate transactions in densely populated areas: Evidence from the 2019 Typhoon Hagibis in Japan","authors":"Ikuto Aiba , Daisuke Hasegawa","doi":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101363","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101363","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of flooding on real estate transactions in an urban area using the flooding caused by Typhoon Hagibis, which hit Japan in October 2019, as a natural experiment. Applying the difference-in-differences method, we find that the contract and offer prices of properties in flooded areas declined by about 6.0% and 5.5% on average, respectively. These price drops indicate an approximately 0.5 percentage point rise in the discount rate, which is defined as the percentage change from the offer to contract prices. Regarding apartment transactions, we show that the negative effects are significant for higher floors but insignificant for lower floors. This suggests the possibility that buyers have become more aware that higher floors are also vulnerable to flooding, given the flood-associated risks of power and water outages. The findings also reveal that the negative effects of flooding on detached houses are more serious and emerge more slowly than those on apartments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47082,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Japanese and International Economies","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101363"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101362
Mana Kaneko , Toshinori Sasaki , Katsushi Suzuki
We examine the effect of bank–firm relationships on the marginal value of cash held by firms during the 2008 financial crisis using Japanese data. Our results show that (1) during the financial crisis, the close bank-firm relationships reduce the marginal value of cash. In particular, the effect is stronger for financially distressed firms. (2) Financially distressed firms with closer bank–firm relationships are less likely to save cash. These results are consistent with the information production hypothesis that close bank-firm relationships increase firms' ability to raise funds by encouraging banks to produce information, as a result, reducing the value of cash held by firms.
{"title":"Bank–firm relationships and the value of cash: Evidence from the financial crisis in Japan","authors":"Mana Kaneko , Toshinori Sasaki , Katsushi Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jjie.2025.101362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the effect of bank<strong>–</strong>firm relationships on the marginal value of cash held by firms during the 2008 financial crisis using Japanese data. Our results show that (1) during the financial crisis, the close bank-firm relationships reduce the marginal value of cash. In particular, the effect is stronger for financially distressed firms. (2) Financially distressed firms with closer bank–firm relationships are less likely to save cash. These results are consistent with the information production hypothesis that close bank-firm relationships increase firms' ability to raise funds by encouraging banks to produce information, as a result, reducing the value of cash held by firms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47082,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Japanese and International Economies","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101362"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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