This paper examines cash dividends and share repurchases in Japan - discerning between keiretsu and non-keiretsu groupings of firms - during the period 1990 to 2008, a period of extensive Japanese corporate governance reform. As in the United States, share repurchases in Japan have grown...

With a large sample from Japan during the period of 1990-2012, we find firms that belong to business groups (“keiretsu”) pay more cash dividends when the affiliated dividend-receiving firms have better investment opportunities, are in financial distress, or have a stronger linkage to the...

Examining a large sample of firms with ownership information from Japan, we find firms that belong to business groups (“keiretsu”) pay more cash dividends than non-keiretsu firms, especially when the affiliated dividend-receiving firms have better investment opportunities, are in financial...

We study up to 27 years of weekly data on nine currencies to examine the importance of the Japanese yen in exchange rate determination in North and Southeast Asia. We combine a time-varying methodology alongside a focus on long-run equilibrium. Our findings suggest that the Japanese yen had...