Empirical studies in corporate finance have long been focused on the role of banks in reducing the costs of financial distress. The environment and events in Japan provide a "natural experiment" that allows such empirical studies. The number of bankruptcies steadily increased throughout the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how seasonal fluctuations in preference may change the dynamic stability and make multiple equilibria more likely outcome in a standard monetary economy. In the analysis, we investigate a model of money-in-the-utility function where real money balances...

This paper investigates how "prices" in East Asian economies were correlated with those in Japan and with those in the United States. The analysis is particularly noteworthy because East Asian Economies are geographically close to Japan but their currencies have been more tied to the US dollar....

In previous studies, it is well known that equilibria can be indeterminate when the cash-in-advance constraint is binding. This paper extends these previous studies to the case where the economy grows endogenously. The extension is particularly noteworthy because temporarily different growth...

Replacing investment shares in GDP by growth rates of capital stock, this paper first shows that cross-country regressions can explain East Asian high rates of economic growth remarkable well. The result is observationally consistent with recent growth accounting studies which proposed that...