"Non-regular employment," such as part-time, dispatched, and contracted workers in Japan, has expanded in recent years. This trend reflects a wider variety of lifestyles, the shift from fixed labor costs to variable labor costs by many firms, and deregulation. This augmentation of non-regular...

This paper examines sovereign credit default swaps (CDSs), which have attracted attention since the emergence of the fiscal deficit problem in Greece, with particular focus on the expansion of the sovereign CDS market, the relationship between CDS premiums and fiscal risk variables, and the...