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The life cycle/permanent income hypothesis (LCPIH) entails two postulates: People have rational expectations and people do not have problems with self-control. If either or both of these postulates do not apply, we cannot obtain a testable implication for the LCPIH. We use Japanese representative panel data that include responses to self-reported and retrospective questions in order to elicit behavior such as forward-looking and self-control problems. We test the rational expectations hypothesis and the LCPIH implication and find that rational consumers do not change their expenditure in response to expected income changes, which we restrict to fit the two LCPIH postulates.

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Background: China has five layers of government including the central government. Recently, some prefectural governments meet fiscal distress. Methods: We investigate the effects of urban and rural populations and area sizes on the expenditures of the prefecture-level local government by estimating quintile regression. Results: At around 220,000 people, per capita local government expenditure for urban populations is minimized in our simulation. The expenditure for rural populations is proportional to the population size. The expenditure in accordance with the areas is also proportional to the area size. Conclusions: The cost structure is the reason why China’s recent rapid urbanization increases prefectural government’s fiscal distress.

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In this paper, we successfully overcome the problems of data availability and investigate the fiscal multipliers for autonomous prefectures in China. We first estimate the long-run elasticity of gross regional production with respect to fiscal expenditure at the prefecture level using autoregressive distributed lag models. We find that the estimated long-run elasticity is much less than unity and that the estimated fiscal multipliers for prefectures lie between 0.61 and 4.93, with an average of 1.93. These results indicate that additional fiscal expenditure remains effective in increasing local income and promoting economic growth for most autonomous prefectures.

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We conducted a questionnaire survey in the Kanto area regarding people's dissatisfaction with various aspects of their dwelling environment. Dissatisfaction with access to transportation, shopping, and medical facilities is an important reason for moving house. The empirical results from a probit model imply that increased economic wealth improves satisfaction with proximity to transportation, shopping, and medical facilities but does not reduce dissatisfaction with living costs, whereas aging increases satisfaction not only with proximity to transportation, shopping, and medical facilities, but also with living costs and family and acquaintances.

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Using a disequilibrium model, we investigate the relationship between the supply constraint of electricity generation capacity and electricity demand in Taiwan. We find that electricity consumption faced supply constraints in Taiwan between 1959 and 1972, but that generation capacity grew rapidly after 1973, such that economic growth came to be the major determinant of electricity consumption. Our experience in fitting this disequilibrium model suggests that simple causality tests are not a proper means to understand the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth. Our results also suggest, at least for developing countries, that an electricity supply constraint sometimes plays an important role when investigating the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth.

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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effect on land prices of the "New Landscape Preservation Policy" enacted in Kyoto City in 2007. The main feature of this policy is building height restrictions in the central part of the city. We use a hedonic approach and find there has been a rise in land prices around the central part of the city, similar to the simulation results of previous studies using computational general equilibrium models. There has also been a rise in land prices in the central part of the city, which differs from the findings of previous studies. Additionally, a negative macroshock on the entire city and a fall in land prices in the urban fringe area are observable. © The Applied Regional Science Conference (ARSC)/Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2012.

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Using the Atkinson inequality measure of income distribution, we analyze the impact of China as a single country and examine the effect of its domestic income inequality on total income inequality among East Asian countries. First, we find that China's domestic income inequality has increased since 1990. However, the inequality of China's domestic income distribution is still at a low level among East Asian countries as a whole. Second, the growth of China's per capita gross domestic product (GDP) had an equalizing effect on income distribution in a framework of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) + China, but this effect was reversed around 1997. However, relative to higher income countries such as Japan and South Korea, China's per capita GDP remains low, and although China has in the past contributed to income inequality in the area, it has recently had a more equalizing effect. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

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This paper investigates how the hidden manoeuvrings of governments' fiscal department bureaucrats affect tax projections and economic growth forecasts. The empirical results suggest that they underestimate their tax projections when these are based on their forecasts of government debt. We also analyze the manoeuvrings of fiscal bureaucrats on economic forecasts and find that their forecasts of economic growth rates depend on their own projections of government debt and fiscal deficits.

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We propose simple modifications for the Kakwani tax progressivity measure that make it suitable for evaluating access inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to the Gini coefficient instead of the difference between them. We also propose a measure using the Gini coefficient or concentration index of consumption expenditure as the denominator in the modified measure as an alternative type of modified measure. This measure can also be interpreted as the income/consumption expenditure elasticity evaluated at the mean. Additionally, we propose a decomposition method using expenditure components and provide an empirical example with Japanese data. ©2012 Fukushige et al.
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In this paper, we use data from 12 metropolitan cities in Japan to investigate the effects of street landscape planting and urban park areas on land prices, and estimate the magnitude and saturation levels of these effects, as well as examining the current level of planting and park areas in these cities. The empirical results imply that increasing the street landscape planting ratio improves the dwelling environment, in terms of both the magnitude and saturation level of the planting ratio, while increasing the amount of urban park area does not. (c) 2012 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

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We investigate causal relationships among exports, imports, and economic growth in North Korea using time series data for the period between 1964 and 2008. The empirical results show Granger causality from imports to GNP in the first half of the period and from GNP to imports in the second half. This implies that the North Korean economy escaped from the import-led growth situation that some socialist economies had experienced and changed its macroeconomic mechanism in 1991. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.

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In Japan, some fishery cooperative associations use their fishery harbor names as a brand to differentiate their own shore fish. Most notable is the branding of mackerel. In this paper, we analyze the effects of branding using a discrete/continuous model. The results are as follows. First, there is first-mover advantage in the branding of mackerel. For instance, unlike other brands of mackerel, Seki-saba as the pioneering brand can increase its brand equity. Second, other brands have opposing effects that increase and decrease the brand equity of the pioneering brand. We find the former is strongest in the early stages of fishery branding when there are few competing brands of mackerel, while the latter becomes stronger in later stages when many other brands emerge. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.

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Faced with an aging society and major earthquake risk in the near future, promoting the improvement of existing houses is one of the most important issues in Japan. In this paper, we formulate two types of demand models for home safety: a model for barrier-free conversion and a model for seismic retrofit based on a logit model. We explore statistically the factors that affect the demand for each improvement using prefectural data in Japan. We also analyze statistically the significance and impact of financial support programs for improving existing houses, which the Japanese government has implemented at the prefectural and municipal level. The results clarify the differences between the determinants of each type of improvement and show that the support program for barrier-free conversion has a positive and statistically significant effect on households' preference. However, neither the seismic test nor the seismic retrofit program conducted by prefectures has a positive impact on preference, whereas those by municipalities do affect preference. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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This study investigates the differences in travel objectives between first-time and repeat tourists. We conduct a questionnaire survey of travel agencies, which asked about specific tour plan for target tourists, their experiences and travel objectives in the Kansai area in Japan. We estimate a logit model for the relationship between travel objectives and visiting experiences. The results indicate that the first-time tourists' main objective is to enjoy looking around sightseeing spots, while the repeat tourists' objective is simply to enjoy the stay, including the hotel visit and participating in events. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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We carried out and analysed a questionnaire survey on consumer attitudes to verify the effectiveness of blanket testing of US beef in Japan. Applying an ordered probit model to the data yielded the following findings: blanket testing dramatically increases purchase probabilities, so it is one of the most important tools for reviving Japanese consumers’ meat demand. The effect of blanket testing is especially large in the region where the consumers traditionally ate more beef (the Kansai area). Purchase probability is lower in households with awareness of country-of-origin of beef before the BSE crisis than households without it. Purchase probability of the households that had eaten US beef before the BSE outbreak is higher than those that had not. Purchase probability is not affected by family structure. © The Authors. Journal compilation.

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In this article, we investigate the impact of BSE and bird flu on consumers' meat demand in Japan by using the 'almost ideal' demand system. The BSE and bird flu scares brought about a fall in demand for beef and chicken, respectively, and an upturn in demand for pork and fishery products, which are substitutes for beef and chicken in Japan. We also find that the bird flu outbreak had no impact on the market share for beef. This suggests that BSE had a larger impact on consumers' meat demand than did bird flu. Our empirical results also show that BSE has had a persistent impact whereas, bird flu has not. These differences might depend on the characteristics of each disease, such as the incubation period, cure rate and infection risk.

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Many variations exist of yield curve modeling based on the exponential components framework, but most do not consider the generating process of the error term. In this paper, we propose a method of yield curve estimation using an instantaneous error term generated with a standard Brownian motion. First, we add an instantaneous error term to Nelson and Siegel's instantaneous forward rate model [C.R. Nelson, A.F. Siegel, Parsimonious modeling of yield curves, Journal of Business 60 (1987) 473-489]. Second, after differencing multiperiod spot rate models transformed using Nelson and Siegel's instantaneous forward rate model [C.R. Nelson, A.F. Siegel, Parsimonious modeling of yield curves, Journal of Business 60 (1987) 473-489], we obtain a model with serially uncorrelated error terms because of independent increment properties of Brownian motion. As the error term in this model is heteroskedastic and not serially correlated, we can apply weighted least squares estimation techniques. That is, this specification of the error term does not lead to incorrect estimation methods. In an empirical analysis, we compare the instantaneous forward rate curves estimated by the proposed method and an existing method. We find that the shape from the proposed estimation equation differ from the latter method when fluctuations in the interest rate data used for the estimation are volatile. © 2008 IMACS.

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We analyse the determinants of the Gini coefficient for income and expenditure in South Korea between 1975 and 1995. In both cases, we do not find support for the Kuznets inverted-U hypothesis. From an economic globalization viewpoint, the opening of goods markets reduces income inequality in both the short run (the Gini coefficient for income) and the long run (the Gini coefficient for expenditure). On the other hand, the opening of capital markets increases income inequality in both the short and the long run, although the latter is not statistically significant. These results suggest that the effect of economic globalization on income inequality has two routes and two different speeds. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Japan consists of many small inhabited islands in addition to four main islands. We examine the impact of fiscal expenditure and the number of tourists on per capita taxable income in remote islands using panel data analyses. The results show that both fiscal expenditure and population size have significant positive impacts on per capita taxable income, whereas the number of tourists does not have statistically significant impact. They indicate that tourism development would not work as a substitute for financial support from the government. In other words, continuous financial support may be needed to maintain the islands' economies.

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Using monthly data on Japanese industries, we estimate a model of dynamic labour demand that incorporates adjustment costs for hiring and firing workers, and for changing working hours.

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Several researchers have studied the productivity of public capital in Japan but most have not paid attention to the types of public infrastructure or differences in production technology between prefectures. We estimate prefectural production functions with differently aggregated public capital. Through the model selection process, we examine the types of productive public capital. The empirical results show the production technologies used and how types of productive public capital differ between prefectures.

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Regional tourism policies in Japan have been undergoing major structural changes. Meanwhile, smaller municipalities in Japan face challenges with respect to their relationships with neighboring municipalities, prefectures and the central government. This study highlights a number of significant features for the roles and relationships of the central government, prefectures and municipalities in tourism policy. It uses the example of investigating the extent to which residents of the Amami Oshima Islands expect their municipality to take the initiative in implementing or financing tourism development policies. A binary choice approach is used to model individual survey responses in terms of respondents' socio-economic characteristics. Residents who expect the municipality to promote tourism and industrial development have a significantly different socio-economic status. Respondents most likely to expect the municipality to take the lead in policy making include executive officers or employees of private companies, the unemployed, the self-employed, or part.-time workers. Government employees are not likely to have this expectation. In terms of the funding authority, the likelihood that a resident expects the municipality to take an industrial development initiative increases as the annual income per resident increases. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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We propose a method for decomposing interregional differentials in productivities based on the Lifecycle Permanent Income Hypothesis. We also conduct an empirical analysis using Japanese prefectural data and examine the effectiveness of this method. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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The onsets of the BSE have been reported in all over the world since 1986 when the first case was reported in the U.K. Thereby, consumers came to refrain from consumption of beef. Japan is not an exception. Since when the first BSE-infected cow was confirmed in September 2001, beef demand declined rapidly and demand for other meets such as pork and chicken and fresh seafood products increased as substitute demand. We use an almost ideal (AI) demand system to examine the influence of family structure on the demand-shift caused by the BSE. Empirical result shows as follows. First, the decline in the expenditure share for the beef does not depend on the family structure. Second, on one hand, the substitute demand toward fresh seafood products in a household with a child or an elderly person is larger than that in the household without them. On the other hand, the substitute demand toward pork in a household with a child or an elderly person is smaller.

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The Amami islands are located 380 km southwest of Japan proper. These islands have two economic features: they are islands that many tourists visit because of their natural resources and they are an undeveloped area where the central government of Japan provides large fiscal subsidies. We investigate the impacts of tourism and fiscal expenditure simultaneously. The results show that one tourist and about 52000 yen (about US$480) fiscal expenditure are substitutable in the end.

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The study presents ( 1) the convergence of labour productivity in manufacturing industries in Japanese MEAs during 1985 to 2000, using Markov chain transition matrix and ( 2) the speed of convergence to an ergodic distribution. The results indicate that ( 1) the labour productivities of all MEAs converge to different levels in the long- run and ( 2) its speed is as slow as the Solow's growth model.

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In the economic growth theory, most of the researchers' interests moved from the exogenous to the endogenous factor. In the urban growth theory, the concern also gathered for the endogenous growth factor, especially economics of agglomeration. However we wonder whether only the economics of agglomeration will explain Japan's urban growth or not. We examine which of the factors explain urban growth in Japan, economies of agglomeration or exogenous technical progress, extending the model of Ciccone and Hall (1996). Our results show the tendency that the city which has strong economies of agglomeration has small exogenous technical progress
on the other hand the city which has strong exogenous technical progress has small economies of agglomeration. Our results also indicate that the city which has much stronger economies of agglomeration has exogenous technical degeneration, but the stronger the economies of agglomeration become, the smaller the exogenous technical progress becomes. © 2005, JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL. All rights reserved.

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Researchers have emphasized different aspects of income inequality, including the statistical evidence of interregional per capita income convergence (following the economic growth theory) and the increase in individual income inequality. This study clarifies these issues, by analyzing the interregional income inequality of cities, towns and villages data in Japan from 1986 to 1999. The results of this empirical analysis show that the interregional income inequality decreases in the 1990s, in spite of the increase in individual income inequality. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Prefectural level private capital stock and 11 types of public capital stocks are estimated as net capital stock on the basis of the published statistical data. The benchmark stocks and depreciation rate are constructed from national wealth survey and the prefectural shares of investments from the system of national accounts. When the estimated net capital stock is compared with the gross capital stocks in preceding researches, which do not consider the depreciation, over estimation of the capital stocks in the preceding research is clear. This result suggests that we should use the net capital stocks in empirical studies to estimate more precise economic relationships.

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This paper assesses the long-run bilateral trade relations between the US and Mexico. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) had no additional impacts on import functions. Gradual switching existed even before the agreement became effective. (C) 2002 Society for Policy Modeling. Published by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

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Kansai economy greatly depends on the manufacturing industry sector. However, the establishments and enterprises in Kansai which had about 90,000 in 1985 fall down to about 65,000 in 2000. This is an evidence of de-industrialization in Kansai. On one hand, this phenomenon can be explained from the economics of agglomeration as the Tokyo monopolar system. On the other hand, the three laws governing industrial location might play an important role in this phenomenon. In the present paper, separating the Kansai into the restricted zone where the new establishment and extension of factories were for bidden and the nonrestricted zone, we estimated the industrial production function to examine whether the economics of agglomeration would exist or not. From the result, we find that some industries were hindered the economics of agglomeration in spite of the existence of the economics of agglomeration. Moreover, some industries do not have economics of agglomeration in the restricted zone because of the three laws governing industrial location. © 2003, JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL. All rights reserved.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine how much the regional distribution of human capital affects the interregional wage differentials in Japan. To measure the impact of them, the Gini coefficient was simulated in case where there was no difference in the distribution of human capital between prefectures and compared with the actual value. The result shows that more than half of the actual Gini coefficients can be explained by the regional distribution of human capital. © 2002, JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL. All rights reserved.

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Public libraries play an important role in guaranteeing the right ot know, but recently the fiscal deficits of the local governments make it difficult without operating more efficiently. Public libraries generally have several purposes, for example the provision of the access to infomation, promoting reading books among children, and so on. Therefore we observe several outputs of public libraries corresponding to these purposes, for example total circulation service for adults and those for children. In the present paper, we analyze the efficiency of public libraries in the wards of the ordinance designated cities using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) because this method can deal with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. The empirical results point out the following two findings. One is that libraries in Osaka and Kobe are operating more efficiently than other cities. Another is that most of libraries are suggested an enhancement of circulation service for children in improvements. In addition to the DEA analysis, we also examine the demand side factor to affect the efficiency of public library, using the Tobit and the ordered probit models. The results show that corresponding to the children's demand for cirulation service properly is a key to improve the efficiency in administering libraries. © 2002, JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL. All rights reserved.

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By estimating long-run relationships in bilateral import functions, the effects of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement is analysed. We also incorporate the gradual switching model into the import function to capture the phased tariff reductions. The result shows that the free trade agreement made both countries sensitive to domestic and foreign prices and insensitive to the domestic income.

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Several models are proposed for analyzing consumer demand systems. Empirical researchers usually, adopt one or more models and test some constraints based on demand theory, and then evaluate the plausibility of the models. However, they rarely adopt a statistical model selection procedure in their evaluation. The main reason is that the dependent variables are different in each model. Theil's minimum entropy measure is a candidate for a practical model selection procedure, but its performance has not been studied carefully and sufficiently. In this paper, we conduct a Monte Carlo simulation to ascertain its performance. Simulation results show that the criteria based upon entropy do not perform well. We propose a two-step selection procedure, utilizing the criteria. This procedure performs better. (C) 2002 IMACS. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate an incentive for the merger of local municipalities (cities, town and village) in view of the intergovernmental subsidy policy. The central issue in our study is the relation between population and the per capita subsidy. The empirical results are, first, when a town and village merges, the subsidy in total decreases. Second, when a town and a village combine to form a city, the subsidy drastically decreases. Third, the estimated subsidy function decreases, as the population grows, and then gradually increases. Over 85% of the cities are positioned around the decreasing part of the graph.

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Language：English   Publisher：Nagoya City University  

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I propose a method to evaluate the degree of income redistribution throughout a person's life-time. An international comparison of life-time redistribution in the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan has been attempted. This comparison clearly shows the differences in the degree of redistribution in each of the countries.

DOI： 10.1016/S0165-1765(96)00881-6

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：日本住宅総合センタ-  

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Routledge  

From the theoretical point of view, households' consumption inequality represents the inequality of the expected utilities through their lifecycles if each family optimizes its lifetime utility. We investigate its empirical validity, applying a regression analysis. The result of the regression analysis shows its empirical advantages as a measure for economic inequality.

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：日本証券経済研究所  

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：Nagoya City University  

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We investigate the interaction between model selection procedure and testing nonnormality in autoregressive processes when the sample size is small, we utilize residual skewness, kurtosis and an omnibus statistic as test statistics and AIC, SC and HQ as model selection criteria. The result of a Monte Carlo simulation with some AR(3) models shows that the performance of the statistics from the selected model is as well as those from the true mode 1. © 1994, Taylor &amp
Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：Tezukayama University  

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Language：English   Publisher：JAPANESE ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION  

After tax income and consumption of each income class are cointegrated respectively, we can estimate an ideal before tax consumption from the Permanent Income Hypothesis point of view. In this paper, with this estimated before tax consumption, we calculate the before tax version of the economic inequality measure proposed by Fukushige (1989), and evaluate the tax progressivity by their rate of change from the before tax version to the after tax version. This index has several theoretical advantages. Also its empirical application to Japanese data makes its advantages clear.

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One-dimensional grouped survey data are made available to the public, but the cross-classified data are usually not. Two methods to estimate a contingency table from the known margins are investigated. One method is to fit Goodman's correlation model, and the other is a Bayesian method that incorporates vague, outside information. Both methods are used to estimate a regression model on two or more sets of differently grouped data. © 1991.

DOI： 10.1016/0304-4076(91)90099-Y

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：国立社会保障・人口問題研究所  

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：Osaka University  

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA  

DOI： 10.1016/0165-1765(89)90272-3

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：公正取引協会  

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：神戸大学大学院経済学研究科 / 神戸大学経済学部  

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：神戸大学大学院経済学研究科 / 神戸大学経済学部  

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：郵政弘済会  

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：神戸大学  

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