This paper provides a brief introduction to a proposed new opportunity cost treatment of owner-occupied housing in measures of inflation for the United States. In addition, the paper introduces, and provides links to, a collection of nine other papers that discuss various aspects of the...

Cette Note Discute de L'estimation, Par la Methode du Maximum de Vraisemblance, des Probabilites Conditionneles Associees a des Evenements Dichotomiques, Lorsqu'on Utilise des Donnees de Panel et Qu'on Veut Tenir Compte des Caracteristiques des Individus. les Probabilites Conditionnelles...

Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and others posit that rapid development requires a 'big push' - the coordinated rapid growth of diverse complementary industries, and suggests a role for government in providing such coordination. We argue that Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided this...

Japan's prolonged economic problems are due to more than faulty macro-economic policies. We do not deny the importance of bungled macro-economic policy, but argue that deeper maladies in Japanese corporate governance made that country increasingly vulnerable to such problems. We argue that...

We study the relation between firms? banking relations, ownership structures, and q ratios in Japan. At low levels of equity ownership by main banks, firms? q ratios fall as bank equity ownership rises. At higher levels of bank equity ownership, this relationship is mitigated and, in some...

We study the relation between firms? banking relations, ownership structures, and q ratios in Japan. At low levels of equity ownership by main banks, firms? q ratios fall as bank equity ownership rises. At higher levels of bank equity ownership, this relationship is mitigated and, in some...

A novel application of input–output analysis is used to statistically map out average levels of generation of unwanted solid and liquid waste materials and also greenhouse gases along manufacturing supply chains for the final demand products of manufacturing industries in Japan. One key...