OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Japanese and International Economies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A field experiment on discrimination against foreigners in the rental housing market in Japan examining the 23 wards of Tokyo	56
Cross-regional heterogeneity in health and economic outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of Japan	48
Cross-country evidence on the allocation of COVID-19 government subsidies and consequences for productivity	39
The impact of flooding on real estate transactions in densely populated areas: Evidence from the 2019 Typhoon Hagibis in Japan	38
Quantifying the impact of the Tokyo Olympics on COVID-19 cases using synthetic control methods	22
Editorial Board	21
CEO skill and firm performance	20
Position in global value chains, trade duration, and firm survival: Empirical evidence from China	19
Debt issuance incentives and creative accounting: Evidence from municipal mergers in Japan	17
Editorial Board	16
The effect of free Tuition in private High schools on the High school dropout rate	14
The effect of public-sponsored job training in Japan	14
Fiscal capacity and commercial bank lending under COVID-19	13
Editorial for Digital Economy	13
The impact of bequest motives on labor supply and retirement behavior in Japan: A theoretical and empirical analysis	13
Juggling paid work and elderly care provision in Japan: Does a flexible work environment help family caregivers cope?	12
Aging and the real interest rate in Japan: A labor market channel	12
The transmission of monetary policy shocks: Evidence from Japan	11
Entrepreneurship of the ice age cohorts	11
Displacement effects of public libraries	10
Editorial Board	10
The impact of firms’ international trade on domestic suppliers: The case of Japan	10
Obsolete housing equipment, weak renovation, and rapid depreciation of Japanese condominiums	8
Peer effects on job satisfaction from exposure to elderly workers	8
Effect of the utilization of non-reciprocal trade preferences offered by the QUAD countries on beneficiary countries' economic complexity	8

The aging society, savings rates, and regional flow of funds in Japan	7
Prediction machines, insurance, and protection: An alternative perspective on AI’s role in production	7
Heterogeneity and wage growth of full-time workers in Japan: An empirical analysis using micro data	7
Can child benefit reductions increase maternal employment? Evidence from Japan	7
Lessons from mergers and acquisitions of regional banks in Japan: What does the stock market think?	7
The financial health of “swing hospitals” during the first COVID-19 outbreak	6
State ownership, political connection, and innovation subsidies in China	6
Welfare gains through globalization: Evidence from Japan's manufacturing sector	6
Tariff Pass-through in Wholesaling: Evidence from Firm-level Data in Japan✰	6
Policy uncertainty in Japan	5
How does the impact of the COVID-19 state of emergency change? An analysis of preventive behaviors and mental health using panel data in Japan	5
Bank–firm relationships and the value of cash: Evidence from the financial crisis in Japan	5
Japan's inflation under global inflation synchronization	5
The China shock and job reallocation in Japan	5
Tokenism in gender diversity on board of directors	5
Information effects of monetary policy	5
Potential benefits and determinants of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data	4
The effects of the calculation class in elementary school on student outcomes	4
Competition in the Chinese market: Foreign firms and markups	4
Impact of studying abroad on language skill development: Regression discontinuity evidence from Japanese university students	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Margins, concentration, and the performance of firms in international trade: Evidence from Japanese customs data	4
The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor markets: People’s movement and non-pharmaceutical interventions	4
Macroeconomic analysis of the child benefit: Fertility, demographic structure, and welfare	4
The effects of a megabank merger on firm-Bank relationships and loan availability	3
The impact of export controls on international trade: Evidence from the Japan–Korea trade dispute in semiconductor industry	3
Assessing monetary policy surprises in Japan by high frequency identification	3
Employers’ stereotypes and taste-based discrimination	3
Labor market of regular workers in Japan: A perspective from job advertisement data	3
Editorial Board	3
Assessing the impact of China shocks on intra-ASEAN trade	3
Nowcasting economic activity with mobility data	3
Nelson–Siegel decay factor and term premia in Japan	3
Aggregate implications of changing industrial trends in Japan	3
What types of houses remain vacant? Evidence from a municipality in Tokyo, Japan	3
Peer effects on influenza vaccination: Evidence from a city's administrative data in Japan	2
Impacts of firm's GVC participation on productivity: A case of Japanese firms	2
Property tax and farmland use in urban areas: Evidence from the reform in the early 1990s in Japan	2
Cross-border technology licensing with R&D Opportunity and Government Intervention	2
Inequalities in student learning and screen time due to COVID-19: Evidence from Japan	2
Wealth, Financial Literacy and Behavioral Biases in Japan: the Effects of Various Types of Financial Literacy	2
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global GDP growth	2
The impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on foreign direct investment from China, the United States, and major investor countries	2
What did the Bank of Japan do under the yield curve control policy?	2
Assessing carbon emissions embodied in international trade based on shared responsibility	2
The effects of large-scale equity purchases during the coronavirus pandemic	2
Impact of fiscal policies on the labor market with search friction: An estimated DSGE model for Japan	2
Editorial Board	2
Optimal monetary policy in a liquidity trap: Evaluations for Japan’s monetary policy	2

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