Ambiguity and self-protection: evidence from social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
新冠疫情中的模棱两可与自我保护：基于社会疏离行为的证据
Daiki Kishishita,Hans H Tung,Charlotte Wang
Daiki Kishishita
This paper studies how people make decisions over preventive behaviors under ambiguity (i.e., Knightian uncertainty) where they do not even know the probability of a loss. In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, scientific uncertai...
Masao Ogaki
Masao Ogaki
This paper discusses the importance of the community mechanism that complements the market and power mechanisms in an economic system during an era of crisis, defined as a mechanism for resource allocation by which at least one person propo...
Hiroyuki Kubota,Mototsugu Shintani
Hiroyuki Kubota
We identify monetary policy shocks in Japan during the unconventional monetary policy period using high-frequency data for interest rate futures. Following the empirical strategy of Gürkaynak et al. (Int J Cent Bank 1: 55-93, 2005), we con...
Tourism infrastructure and the environment: how does environmental regulation affect welfare, tourism industry, and domestic wage inequality? [0.03%]
旅游业与环境：环境规制如何影响福利、旅游产业和国内工资不平等？
Takanori Shimizu,Hisayuki Okamoto
Takanori Shimizu
This study presents a general equilibrium model of a small open developing economy with pollution generated by the tourism industry. The national government issues emission permits and constructs tourism infrastructure for the tourism secto...
Yasushi Iwamoto
Yasushi Iwamoto
This paper reviews recent findings on the normative analysis of private and governmental countermeasures against infectious diseases, focusing on COVID-19. Based on a model that relates the economic activity to infectious disease epidemics,...
Daisuke Fujii,Taisuke Nakata
Daisuke Fujii
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s42973-021-00098-4.]. © Japanese Economic Association 2021.
Published Erratum
Japanese economic review (Oxford, England). 2022;73(2):427. DOI:10.1007/s42973-021-00104-9 2022
Fuhito Kojima,Hiroaki Odahara
Fuhito Kojima
In recent years, many developments have been made in matching theory and its applications to market design. This paper surveys some selected topics from this research area and describe our own work. We also describe the newly established Un...
Can e-commerce mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on international trade? [0.03%]
电子商务能缓解新冠肺炎对国际贸易的负面影响吗？
Kazunobu Hayakawa,Hiroshi Mukunoki,Shujiro Urata
Kazunobu Hayakawa
This study aims to empirically investigate the role of E-commerce (EC) on the trade impacts of COVID-19. To this end, we estimate gravity equations for bilateral trade among 34 reporting countries and their 145 partner countries during Janu...
Watching, being watched, and human interactions: evidence from trust games [0.03%]
观看、被观看与人际互动：来自信任游戏的证据
Kiyotaka Yageta
Kiyotaka Yageta
Face-to-face communication increases human trust, which is crucial for making important decisions with others. Due to technological breakthroughs and the COVID-19 pandemic, human interactions now predominantly occur online, leading to two s...