Recent debates about the state of Japan's financial system focus on the weakness of Japanese banks. But, in the complex …. Despite the reform efforts under the Big Bang program, financial markets in Japan show severe signs of malfunctioning …

Japan and Korea are close countries in terms of economic interaction as well as geography. To quantify the impact of …

The weakness of the Japanese banking industry, suffering from acute problem of non-performing loans, prevents Japan …

This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard …

the US, Japan and the major European countries in order to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy … significantly positively correlated with innovation in both Japan and the EU. A tentative interpretation might be that a rise in …. Furthermore, the tax ratio, which has consistently risen in Japan and especially the EU, could be seen as an indicator for …

In recent years, there has been a slow but steady change in ownership structures and corporate governance in Japan. As …In den letzten Jahren ist in Japan ein allmählicher stetiger Wandel in Besitzverhältnissen, Unternehmensführung und … diesem Prozeß. In Japan fungieren Treuhandbanken und Lebensversicherer als Treuhänder der Pensionsfonds. Sie schenken dem …