. Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting poor countries between …

In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

: comparison with Japan, comparison with the New Economic Policy (NEP), and assuming alternative post-1940 growth scenarios. …

period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital …

. However, Japan started at a lower level than Britain and grew more slowly until the Meiji Restoration. …

. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies … indices for Japan and Europe. If anything, real wages in Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the … sense that much of the increase in wage gap indices in Europe during 1968-70 and in Japan in 1973-74 can be interpreted as …

experiences of Germany and Japan during periods when their exchange rates have apparently been undervalued and the more general …

This paper considers the Great Inflation of the 1970s in Japan and Germany. From 1975 onward these countries had low … Japan and Germany’s monetary authorities - for example, more willingness to accept temporary unemployment, or stronger …