This study assesses the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on the Japanese stock market. As of October 30, 2020, the cumulative number of cases in Japan has reached over one hundred thousand. COVID-19 has significantly affected both the lifestyle and the economy in Japan....

This paper contributes to the systemic risk literature by assessing the network structure of bilateral exposures in the Japanese interbank market. The Japanese interbank market is composed of call and bankers' acceptance markets, and the market participants are restricted to financial...

Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID–19) is one of the worst pandemics in human history. Our research objective is to assess the contagion effect on the Japanese stock market and to evaluate the Japanese government's COVID–19 measures during the period of April 7, 2020 to May 25, 2020. In this...

This study assesses the network structures of cross-shareholdings among listed Japanese companies using a dataset of 2,936 companies for fiscal years 2008-2015. First, we analyze the network structure of cross-shareholdings in the Japanese stock market using centrality measures. Financial...