Japan suggests that foreign firms sell five to six times more in Japan than is commonly believed. Previous studies severely … underestimated the stock of FDI in Japan due to poor data. Second, after finding that even after adjusting for various factors the … level of FDI in Japan is still low, the paper explores explanations for this phenomenon. A second main conclusion is that …

aggregate loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks. The high degree of …

economics to build a Törnqvist inflation index for Japan between 1989 and 2010. Our comparison of this true inflation index with …

Between 1992 and 2002, the Japanese Import Price Index registered a decline of almost 9 percent and Japan entered a …

. Little attention is paid in Japan to substitution biases and quality upgrading. This implies that important methodological … differences have emerged between the U.S. and Japan since the U.S. started to correct for these biases in 1999. We estimate that … using the new corrected U.S. methodology, Japan's deflation averaged 1.2 percent per year since 1999. This is more than …

returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the distribution of regional population in Japan …