Adachi, Yusuke
Ogawa, Hikaru http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4639-2834
Tsubuku, Masafumi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0824-5144
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H02533, 18K12773)
japan society for the promotion of science (20K22128, 19H01505)
Article History
Received: 24 March 2020
Accepted: 9 September 2021
First Online: 1 October 2021
Declarations
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: Adachi contributed to cleaning of data, modeling, coding, estimation, and interpretation of resultsOgawa performed data submission, review of previous studies, writing of the paper, and interpretation of resultsTsubuku contributed to data submission, data cleaning, estimation, visualization, and interpretation of results
: This study is conducted as a part of the project “The Role of Regional Financial Institutions as the Core of the Local Economy and Regional Cooperation” undertaken at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). The research has been supported by grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Nos. 17H02533, 18K12773, 19H01505 and 20K22128).
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest associated with this manuscript.
: All data sources are indicated in the text. The restrictions by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (MITI) of Japan apply to the availability of the data, which was used under license for the current study, and so is not publicly available. Data are, however, available from the MITI upon reasonable request and with permission of it for use.
: All estimations were done using <i>Stata</i>. The code used is available upon request to the authors.
: This study does not include any animal testing or human participation that would raise ethical issues.
: This study did not involve any experiments, interviews, or other analyses that would require the consent of the participants.
: This study does not include analyses in which personal or other information is identified and made public. As for company information, all information, including company names and addresses, was processed in such a way that it could not be identified.