Regional differences in banking integration determined how Japan's Great Recession after 1990 spread across the country …. We explain these differences with the emergence of silk reeling as the main export industry after Japan's opening to …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures’ different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan’s opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures’ different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan’s opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

) emissions. Focussing on Japan, the paper also examines whether firms' CO2 emissions are influenced by the emissions of …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

the two World Wars. This paper focuses on Japan, which as a minor participant, was not directly affected by World War I … Japan was at the time). We investigate the role of NPIs in ameliorating the economic costs for the sector during the …

We exploit the natural experiment of Japan's opening to international trade to examine how comparative advantage can … shape a country's long-run path towards financial development. In the late 19th century, many of Japan's prefectures had a …

We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine …

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …