@article{9cdd99967d6f45dead8c9bb90444a9d2,
title = "Preface",
author = "Naoto Jinji and Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna",
note = "Funding Information: Research funding was provided by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 23330081, 16H03619, 19H01481, and 20H01507, the Japan Center for Economic Research, and the Murata Science Foundation. The analysis in Chaps. 3 and 4 uses firm-level data extracted from surveys conducted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). We thank the Research and Statistics Department of the METI for granting permission to access the surveys{\textquoteright} firm-level data. Part of Chap. 6 is based on the research conducted through a research project at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). We are grateful to Xin Cen, Rinki Ito, and Shunya Ozawa for their excellent research assistance. They also read the entire manuscript of this book and gave comments. In addition, we have benefited a great deal from discussion and/or comments from a large number of colleagues and participants at numerous conferences, workshops, and seminars.",
year = "2022",
language = "English",
volume = "26",
pages = "v--vi",
journal = "Advances in Japanese Business and Economics",
issn = "2197-8859",
publisher = "Springer Nature Switzerland AG",
}