the shares of bank branches, deposits, banking assets, and small business loans held by community banks in the U.S. have … characteristics include population, per capita income, unemployment rate, and banking market structure. We find that community bank …

-fifths of measured international banking assets of all banks. Between year-end 1984 and year-end 1988 Japanese banks accounted … for slightly over one-half of the measured growth of total international banking activity. A large proportion of their … these two markets with the regulatory environment for banks in Japan, with Japan's overall external financial position, as …

is warranted. ; We then turn to the adjustment process. First, we present evidence that a narrowing of Japan's record … be counter-productive. The model shows that this outcome is possible, but we argue that for an economy with Japan … impact on domestic demand in Japan and on trade with the developing countries. …

changes are viewed in terms of their current and potential future impact on the Japanese banking industry. The purpose of this … paper is to provide a discussion of the situation facing the banking system during the present transition period between the …

This paper develops measures of long-run equilibrium price levels (P*) for Japan and Germany following the approach … in the U.S. case because the velocities of the broad monetary aggregates (M2+CDs in Japan and M3 in Germany) exhibit … money demand to construct measures of equilibrium velocity and P for Japan and Germany. We then assess the explanatory power …

, using official data from Japan's Ministry of Finance. Over the period as a whole, we find some evidence of a modest "against …

any precision. This paper offers the first analysis ofthat role using data since 1890 for Canada, Japan, and the United …