Japanese market and the US West Coast market. Japan is the principal potential export market for Alaskan crude oil. Exports to …Present legislation effectively bans the export of crude oil produced in the United States. The ban has been in effect … Alaska crude export ban is specifically provided for in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act of 1973 and in other …

declines in Japanese inflation expectations. Policies undertaken by the Bank of Japan during this period did little to …

Did monetary ease in the 1980s cause Japan's bubble, as is often suggested? Drawing on both a new cross …-national consideration of the monetary policy-asset price linkage and a re-examination of what actually occurred in Japan 1985-1990, I … cause Japan's Great Recession? In fact, Japan's recession of 1990-94 was mild, and only a combination of policy mistakes …

identified as deflation, sometimes as a liquidity trap, the new concern is that the U.S. economy will become like Japan?s. After … only about one percent annually. With more than a decade of slow growth, Japan?s economy since around 1990 is not one that … States and Japan have raised widespread concerns. Interest rates in Japan are essentially zero; interest rates have fallen …