Publications

Banks and Corporate Control in Japan

Using a large sample of Japanese firm level data, we find that Japanese banks act primarily in the short term interests of creditors when dealing with firms outside bank groups....

The Structure of Corporate Ownership in Japan

ABSTRACT I examine the structure of corporate ownership in a sample of Japanese firms in the mid 1980s. Ownership is highly concentrated in Japan, with financial institutions by...

Does Governance Matter? <i>Keiretsu</i> Alliances and Asset Specificity as Sources of Japanese Competitive Advantage

This empirical study suggests that Japanese competitive advantage in complex-product industries is at least partly due to differences in value chain governance and interfirm ass...

Atmospheric Radiocarbon Calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late Glacial Fluctuations and Cosmogenic Isotope Production

More than 250 carbon-14 accelerator mass spectrometry dates of terrestrial macrofossils from annually laminated sediments from Lake Suigetsu (Japan) provide a first atmospheric ...

Advancing Knowledge about Co-Offending: Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Survey of London Males

Perhaps the most frequently documented conclusion about delinquent behavior is that most offenses are committed with others rather than by persons acting alone.Breckenridge and ...

Diffuse lewy body disease in Japan

The Rate of Underascertainment of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection: Estimation Using Japanese Passengers Data on Evacuation Flights

From 29 to 31 January 2020, a total of 565 Japanese citizens were evacuated from Wuhan, China on three chartered flights. All passengers were screened upon arrival in Japan for ...

Photo- and Mechano-Catalytic Overall Water Splitting Reactions to Form Hydrogen and Oxygen on Heterogeneous Catalysts

Abstract Recent progress of overall water splitting by photocatalysts and mechanocatalysts is briefly reviewed. In photocatalytic reactions, several new materials have been intr...

Biosocial Bases of Criminal Behavior

This collection of articles had been put together shortly before its second author died suddenly in 1976. It reports on an exciting body of research, carried out in Scandinavia ...

I Keeping Good Company

Abstract It matters to all of us that companies should be governed effectively. The prosperity of many associated with the company-whether directly as managers and employers, or...

National Institutional Structures, Transaction Cost Economizing and Competitive Advantage: The Case of Japan

Japan’s economic success since World War II has been striking. Modern Japan was the first major industrial economy to emerge from outside the Western tradition. Economically dev...

A Complete Terrestrial Radiocarbon Record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P.

Dating Carbon Radiocarbon dating is the best way to determine the age of samples that contain carbon and that are younger than ∼50,000 years, the limit of precision for the meth...