backdrop of the rapid catch-up of Japan's neighboring countries that capitalize initially on inward FDI-and subsequently on …

. Little attention is paid in Japan to substitution biases and quality upgrading. This implies that important methodological … differences have emerged between the U.S. and Japan since the U.S. started to correct for these biases in 1999. We estimate that … using the new corrected U.S. methodology, Japan's deflation averaged 1.2 percent per year since 1999. This is more than …

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 …

This paper considers a range of issues affecting Japan's contemporary economic well-being. Japan has continued toward … idiosyncrasy of Japan's economic performance. The decoupling of growth and deflation is explained primarily by the ongoing …'s share of GDP will also continue to decline presents inadequate aggregate demand as a major constraint on growth and Japan …

collapse in Japan, I find a large impact of collateral on the corporate investments of a large sample of manufacturing firms …

Japan, Korea, and China, while at the same time illuminating the mechanism that has driven the narrowing in the productivity … is very small for Japanese firms. While the within-industry ranking of TFP levels hardly changes in the case of Japan … are approaching those of the national frontier firms at a more rapid pace than in Japan. …

Japan and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market … attainment have changed substantially both in Japan and Korea. Second, the overall effects of total outsourcing in terms of … because a substantial part of Korean outsourcing remained directed towards Japan, shifting labor demand away from workerswith …

at the height of their heavy and chemical industrialization during the 19th-to-the early 20th century. Japan too followed …

in Japan, which has the biggest share of aged population among the OECD members. Two research questions guide the …

programs, especially programs to reduce air pollution. We have implemented this approach in a pilot study in Tokyo, Japan. The …