The Impact of Collaboration Structure and Artist Attributes on Performance : A Comparison of Artistic and Commercial Performance in the Korean Music Industry. Korean Management Review 2017 Vol.46 No.6 pp.1713-1740.

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Focusing on the specificities of the Korean music industry, this study investigates the effects of lyric-composer-artist (singer) collaboration structure and artist attributes on the artistic and commercial performance, respectively. Our empirical results from 342 music albums suggest that factors affecting artistic performance and commercial performance are different. Collaboration structure with higher percentage of foreign collaborators and low degree of specialization have a positive effect on the album's artistic performance, whereas an artist's OST/featuring participation and award-winning experiences have a negative effect on the album's artistic performance. We also found that composer-artist repeat collaboration experience, an artist's exposure to media, and award-winning experiences have a positive effect on the album's commercial performance. By combining the analysis of two performance dimensions, our study offers a more accurate understanding of the success factors in cultural industries.

Ajinomoto: Process of Corporate Entrepreneurship Hitotsubashi Business Review 2017 Winter Vol.65 No. 3 pp.154-164

The evolution of inflation expectations in Japan 2017 BIS working paper No. 647

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We model inflation forecasts as monotonically diverging from an estimated long-run anchor point towards actual inflation as the forecast horizon shortens. Fitting the model with forecaster-level data for Japan, we find that the estimated anchors across forecasters have tended to rise in recent years, along with the dispersion in estimates across forecasters. Further, the degree to which these anchors pin down inflation expectations at longer horizons has increased, but remains considerably lower than found in a similar study of Canadian and US forecasters. Finally, the wide dispersion in estimated decay paths across forecasters points to a diverse set of views across forecasters about the inflation process in Japan.