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Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the …
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In 1960, South Korea's exports were about 1 percent of GDP, and the country's ability to import depended almost entirely on US aid. After changing its foreign exchange and trade policies in the mid-1960s, Korea saw a surge in exports to more than 10 percent of GDP by the end of the decade. What...
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competitive firms. The results in our paper suggest that when it comes to TFP growth, this view of Japan is seriously erroneous …. We find that lower tariffs and higher import volumes would have been particularly beneficial for Japan during the period … productivity growth. Our findings on Japan suggest that the salutary impact of imports stems more from their contribution to …
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, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …
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We pursue a cross-country comparison of relative financial readiness of older households in Japan and the Republic of …
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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