This paper investigates the causes of business cycle fluctuations that Japan experienced over the period 1980 to 2000 … as collateral in Japan, land tax changes will cause fluctuations in land price that can potentially affect output and … data of land use in Japan provides evidence of such redistribution. …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …