aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. 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 indexes in …

Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and … Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan each focus on one money target, described by the Bundesbank as a target, and by the Bank of … Japan as a projection. None of the countries has stuck rigorously to the targets, though the Bank of Japan has come close …