pt. 1. The politico-economic situation in contemporary Japan -- part 2. The macroeconomic policies in the prolonged economic stagnation -- part 3. The meltdown of Japanese firms -- part 4. Towards the reincarnation of Japanese economy.

Characteristics of business cycles are quite different across developed countries. Real wages and working hours a re less sensitive to exogenous shocks in the United States than in Brit ain and Japan. Using a model with a microeconomic foundation, this paper provides an economic explanation of...

Combining the dynamic Keynesian cross (Otaki, M., 2007. The dynamically extended Keynesian cross and the welfare-improving fiscal policy. Economics Letters 96, 23-29.) with modified efficient wage bargaining, based on McDonald and Solow (McDonald, I.M. and Solow, R.M. 1981. Wage bargaining and...

This book reconstructs Keynesian macroeconomics so that it is compatible with the neoclassical dynamic microeconomic theory. This theory adopts three postulates: rational expectations, perfect price flexibility, and exclusion of the money in utility function (MIU). Based on the new theoretical...