Showing 1 - 10 of 30
This notes outlines how to solve Hayashi and Prescott (2007) "The 1990s: Japan's Lost Decade", extended with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427597
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003298527
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003207293
We study the ex-dividend day behavior of Japanese stock prices for the period 1983-87. We find that, contrary to previous findings, prices of ex-day stocks drop by nearly the full amount of the dividend. However, ex-day stocks shows an abnormal return. Also, for the many ex-dividend day stocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118692
This paper backtests a nowcast of Japan's real GDP growth. Its distinguishing features are use of genuine real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834028
This paper examines the impact of taxes on the incentive to invest for the Japanese manufacturing sector in the postwar period. The idyosyricratic feature of the Japanese corporation tax system as compared to the U.S. is the prevelence of tax-free reserves and the tax deductibility of a part of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787995
We derive from a model of investment with multiple capital goods a one-to-one relation between the growth rate of the capital aggregate and the stock market-based Q. We estimate the growth-Q relation using a panel of Japanese manufacturing firms taking into account the endogeneity of Q....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217217
The permanent income hypothesis is tested on a four-quarter panel of about two thousand Japanese households for ten commodity groups. Consumption is a distributed lag function of expenditures, and the utility function is additively separable in time. Durability is defined as the persistence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218128
rate (ratio of depreciation to the capital stock) is implausibly high. I argue in this rejoinder that Japan's high … Japan. Second, equipment capital (a component of the denominator in the depreciation rate) in the Japanese national accounts … seems underestimated. Therefore, my estimate of the level of depreciation for Japan does not seem exaggerated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221935
This paper examines available evidence on Japan's wealth accumulation. Time-series evidence over the last one hundred … accumulation in pre-war Japan was so slow. Perhaps growth in pre-war Japan was hampered by harmful effects of misguided government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235295