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Autor:
Nobuo Akai, Tsuyoshi Goto
Publikováno v:
Public Finance Review. 50:307-335
Mergers of local governments, commonly referred to as municipal mergers, have been widely implemented to internalize spillover effects. Many empirical studies point out that municipalities change the intertemporal budget allocation by increasing thei
Autor:
Nobuo Akai, Takahiro Watanabe
Publikováno v:
International Tax and Public Finance.
Autor:
Takahiro Watanabe, Nobuo Akai
Publikováno v:
Public Finance Review. 48:505-537
This article examines to what extent taxation authority should be delegated to local or lower-level government. Delegation of taxation authority can be regarded as a commitment to the local tax rate ex ante in a decentralized leadership model, in whi
Autor:
Nobuo Akai, Motohiro Sato
Publikováno v:
Economics of Governance. 20:23-39
This paper revisits the soft budget versus the hard budget constraint in federations. By extending Besfamille and Lockwood (Int Econ Rev 49:577–593, 2008), who examine a case where the soft budget is ex ante favorable, we consider a model that allo
Autor:
Zhenyu Cui, Nobuo Akai
Publikováno v:
Central Asian Review of Economics & Policy. 1:1-18
This research explores the efficiency of government expenditure on health care by Asian countries and the impact of political factors on the efficiency. For Asian countries, it is of great importance for governments to convert economic development to
Autor:
Matsumoto, Mutsumi **I am indebted to James Feehan, Nobuo Akai, Ming Chung Chang, Takao Ohkawa, Robert Parry, and Matthias Wrede for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. The comments and suggestions from the editor and referees of this journal were helpful in revising my imperfect arguments. I am solely responsible for all remaining errors.
Publikováno v:
In Journal of Urban Economics September 2000 48(2):242-259
Autor:
Nobuo Akai
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The Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences. 26:34-38
Autor:
Munekatsu Usami, Nobuo Akai
Publikováno v:
Journal of Air Transport Management. 25:40-43
This paper analyzes the managerial performance of domestic airport terminal buildings in Japan. Japanese airports have been constructed all over the country under the Special Account for Airport Development but few are profitable. Public-private part
Publikováno v:
Japan and the World Economy. 24:207-214
The Japanese government is heavily indebted but the yield on the Japanese government bond (JBG) remains low to date. We hypothesize that the presence of the Japanese government as a large stable investor of JGBs exerted a stabilizing influence on pri
Autor:
Miki Suhara, Nobuo Akai
Publikováno v:
Japanese Economic Review. 64:232-247
In the context of limited local government resources, cultural expenditures are often targeted for reduction. In Japan in particular, with its aging population, cultural expenditures have low priority. This paper examines whether or not local governm