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This paper measures the impact of the entry of large supermarkets on incumbents of various sizes. Contrary to the conventional notion that big stores drive small rivals out of the market, data from Tokyo in the 1990s show that large supermarkets' entry induces the exit of existing large and medium-size competitors, but improves the survival rate of small supermarkets. These findings highlight the role of store size as an important dimension of product differentiation. Size-based entry regulations would appear to protect big incumbents, at the expense of small incumbents and potential entrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: There is no questioning the immensity of change in Tokyo’s urban landscape over the last few decades, despite the difficulties faced by the Japanese economy. This transformation results from a vigorous promotion of urban restructuring by the state and a keen uptake by corporations. The question examined here is the extent to which Tokyo fits into a palette of policies generally seen as neoliberal and, more generally, how and where Tokyo fits into global narratives of urban change. In order to put some perspective on the nature of urban change in Tokyo, three themes are pursued here that are generally considered to indicate a neoliberal policy turn: a territorial rescaling designed to concentrate energies on places of economic strength; a relaxation of regulations facilitating urban restructuring; and housing and other social policies resulting in residential segregation and producing greater social inequality which finds a spatial expression. In doing this, the paper reviews recent debates in the literature on Tokyo, debates that suggest a difference in view between those who see urban life-spaces as conditioned increasingly by a neoliberal policy approach and others for whom the pattern and spaces of life in Tokyo are colored by a more distinct set of policies molded by the (neo-) developmental state. The paper concludes by arguing that only some elements of a ‘neoliberal urban inventory’ are present in the urban landscape of Tokyo, that they exist within a recognisably neoliberal discursive framework, and that this is best conceptualized within a wider East Asian framework. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The Seventh World Congress of the Econometric Society will be held at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan from August 22 to August 29, 1995. Economists are then invited to submit papers for possible presentation at the Congress by January 31, 1995. It is hoped that papers presented at the Congress will represent a broad spectrum of applied and theoretical economics and econometrics. The chairmen of the Program are enumerated for the benefit of participants. Description of abstract presentation are also included. Jointly-authored papers should be submitted by the person who will represent the paper, if it is accepted.

Presents several announcements related to economics as of October 2005. Inclusion of the journal "Pacific Economic Review" in the Social Sciences Citation Index; Information on the international workshop entitled Recent Advances in International Economics IV: Empirical Analyses of International Trade Issues, organized by the Department of Economics and Finance, and the Research Center for International Economics of City University of Hong Kong on May 20 and 21, 2005; Information on the First International Conference on Business, Technology and Competitive Intelligence, to be held at the Graduate School of Business, Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan, on October 25 and 26, 2005.

Abstract: In this paper, I build a model of family labor supply and residential choices that explicitly incorporates the full-time or part-time work decisions of married women. The model can explain why women’s participation patterns in full-time and part-time work vary significantly in areas that are geographically close but differ in real estate prices. The model suggests that high commuting costs could be one of the main obstacles for women’s full-time employment in places like the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

We live at a time when neoliberalism — market fundamentalism — appears to organize not only global and national political-economies but also 'non-economic' spheres, including one's personal sense of identity, interests, happiness, hopes, and even the subjective value of life and self. And this article examines the significance of neoliberalism for the critical study of language and gender. Central to my discussion is the concept of neoliberal governmentality, a distinctive mode of power, which both constitutes the free subject and shapes the way a free subject acts upon her freedom and works and desires herself into a responsibilized individual. I analyze a case of workplace gender equity programs in a Tokyo corporate office in the early 1990s. I demonstrate how this problematization of a particular modality of linguistic practice was linked to the active ethical and aesthetic relationship to the self, and how this relationship among gender and language mediated by neoliberal governmentality worked as a concrete technique of self-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the behavior of speculative prices of futures. Definition of the single-fixed price Japanese auction system; Implication of provisional prices on futures options pricing; Volatility of convergence to equilibrium using provisional price data on imported soybean futures in Tokyo Grain Exchange trading.