In Japan, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is widely used as a measure of inflation or the cost of living. The CPI is … Japanese CPI, and provide some quantitative assessment. Based on currently available information, I place the point estimate … field in Japan. …

The efficiency of Japanese stock market to appropriately price the riskiness of Japanese firms has been frequently … questioned, particularly with respect to Japanese banks which have experienced severe financial distress in recent years. This … paper examines the response in the stock market returns of Japanese commercial banks to the failure of four commercial banks …