Organization, Performance and Equity

I: Organizations.- 1 Entry Regulations, Tax Distortions and the Bipolarized Market: The Japanese Retail Sector.- 2 Demand Uncertainty and Distribution Systems: Information Acquisition and Transmission.- 3 Oligopolistic Competition and Economic Welfare: The Effects of Ownership Structures.- 4 Stackelberg Equilibrium with Private Information.- II. Income Distribution.- 5 Intergenerational Altruism and Income Transfers: Indeterminacy of Equilibria and its Resolution.- 6 Optimal Intergenerational Transfers in an Endogenous Growth Model with Bequests.- 7 Equity in the Income Tax Rate Structure: Measurement on the Income Elasticity of Marginal Utility and its Application.- III. Technological Progress.- 8 Externalities and Productivity Growth: Evidence From Japanese Manufacturing.- 9 Technological Spillovers and Capital Mobility in a Two-Country Model of Economic Growth.- 10 Three Applications of Lie Groups.- IV. Macro Performances.- 11 The Japanese Yen as an International Currency: Performance and Prospects.- 12 Consumption Function in the Short, Medium, and Long Runs: The Japanese and U.S. Cases.- 13 Monetary Shock does not Matter in Japan: A Kalman Filter Approach to Real Business Cycle Theory.- 14 International Welfare Effects of Saving Controls and Trade Restrictions.