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Previous studies on productivity dynamics in Japan have suggested that one of the reasons for sluggish productivity growth in the economy was that highly productive firms exit the market, giving rise to a negative exit effect. This study is the first using census data and a large‐scale micro data set to verify the negative exit effect in Japan. We conduct analyses of productivity dynamics using the...
In this paper, we investigate why information and communication technology (ICT) investment in Japan has stagnated since the 1990s. Given that a notable characteristic of Japan’s economy is that small as well as older firms play a much greater role than in other economies, particularly the United States, our analysis mainly focuses on firms’ size and age. As a first step of our investigation, using...
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