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 …

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

financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …

uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job … mobility within Europe. -- job mobility ; graduates ; Europe ; Japan ; US …