broad problems of growth and regional economy, focusing on economic developments in Japan and Korea. Part 2 discusses trade … and foreign investment in Japan, mainly on an empirical basis. Part 3 then examines various public economic policies using … the Japan Association for Applied Economics (JAAE) and the Korean Economics and Business Association (KEBA), and include …

Tax reform is an urgent priority, as Japan needs as much as 5% to 6% of GDP of additional government revenue just to … eliminating aspects of the tax system which discourage labour supply and distort the allocation of capital. Japan should also …

growth from the perspective of demographic change: will aging Korea become another Japan? / Kyooho Kwon -- 4. Export dynamics … of Japan, Korea and China / Kyu-Chul Jung -- Part II Resource allocations and TFP -- 5. Product market efficiencies and … policy following in the footsteps of Japan? / Dongchul Cho -- 11. Aging and housing prices: the cases of Korea and Japan …

system and private savings in Italy -- Do the elderly dissave in Japan? -- On robust monetary policy -- The euro and the … account -- Land prices and business fixed investment in Japan -- Rationality, behavior and switching idiosyncracies in the …

Japan's dramatic transformation from economic success to economic stagnation offers important policy lessons to … trends experienced by Japan? This judicious volume investigates in depth the causes of Japan's 'lost decades' versus the real … differences between the Korean and Japanese economies, and examine policy measures taken by Japan during the lost decades. From …

This book examines how Japan should cope with fiscal challenges, as demands on the budget from an ageing society have …