@article{90137b3f507c458a86d84bdb99fcb199,
title = "Preface",
author = "Akiomi Kitagawa and Souichi Ohta and Hiroshi Teruyama",
note = "Funding Information: discussion with him. In addition, many other colleagues have helped us improve the original manuscript, either with specific comments on earlier versions of the chapters or through discussions over the years on some of the covered topics. A nonexhaustive list includes Masahiro Abe, Kenn Ariga, Koichi Futagami, Yuji Genda, Ryo Horii, Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi, Noritaka Kudoh, Makoto Saito, and Katsuya Takii. Above all, special thanks go to Hiroyuki Toda and Masako Kimura for permission to quote from their collaborative work with two of us, thereby contributing to the empirical part of this book. Much of the material found in Chap. 4 is based on Teruyama{\textquoteright}s articles coauthored with Hiroyuki Toda. The empirical results in Chap. 5 are obtained through Ohta and Teruyama{\textquoteright}s collaborative research with Masako Kimura. We are also grateful to an anonymous reviewer for useful comments (and, of course, for a positive verdict on publication). Much of the research underlying this book received the financial support of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 19330039, 23330060, 24243035, 24330074, 26285068, and 16H03631), and we would like to acknowledge it.",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
volume = "12",
pages = "v--vi",
journal = "Advances in Japanese Business and Economics",
issn = "2197-8859",
publisher = "Springer Nature Switzerland AG",
}