This paper identifies a "border" effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan … contemporaneous structure of Japan’s business and social networks, rather than cultural differences, induced by long …

realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … a percentage point of GDP. Taken together, these results indicate that a realignment of global growth -- with Japan and …

American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the …

By 1981, Japan achieved both internal and external equilibrium; exports and imports roughly balanced at sixteen percent …

Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …

Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan each focus on one money target, described by the Bundesbank as a target, and by the Bank of … Japan as a projection. None of the countries has stuck rigorously to the targets, though the Bank of Japan has come close …Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and …