5 papers
Price Responses of Rwandan Tungsten Exports under Conflict Minerals Regulation
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
Section 1502 of the Dodd--Frank Act, enacted in 2010, requires U.S.-listed companies using tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adj…
Optimal longevity of a dynasty
Satoshi Nakano, Kazuhiko Nishimura
Standard optimal growth models implicitly impose a ``perpetual existence'' constraint, which can ethically justify infinite misery in stagnant economies. This paper investigates th…
The Impact of Dodd-Frank and the Huawei Shock on DRC Tin Exports
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
This paper investigates the structural transformation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) tin market induced by the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act. Focusing on the breakdown of the…
Structural Cointegration of the Climate--Carbon Feedback: Evidence from the Last 130,000 Years
Satoshi Nakano, Kazuhiko Nishimura
Using a gap-free, millennial-resolution ice-core record spanning the last 130,000 years, we identify the feedback architecture between Antarctic temperature and atmospheric CO.…
Nonlinear Domar aggregation over transforming production networks
Satoshi Nakano, Kazuhiko Nishimura
An economy-wide production network, manifested through monetary input-output coefficients, inherently destabilizes during the general equilibrium propagation of sectoral productivi…