period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital …

called the Triad: The United States, the EU and Japan. We focus on measuring possible asymmetries in market access between …

: comparison with Japan, comparison with the New Economic Policy (NEP), and assuming alternative post-1940 growth scenarios. …

Using data for the 1990s, this Paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our … the US. These results could be explained by the particular recruitment system of large firms in Japan, which makes the …

. Motivated by Japan’s recent economic experience, we use a dynamic general-equilibrium model to assess the welfare impact of open …-market operations for an economy in Japan’s predicament. We argue that Japan can achieve a substantial welfare improvement through large …

This paper uses vector autoregressions to examine the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan. The empirical results …

. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies … indices for Japan and Europe. If anything, real wages in Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the … sense that much of the increase in wage gap indices in Europe during 1968-70 and in Japan in 1973-74 can be interpreted as …