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 …

This paper argues that Japan's export growth is likely to slow sharply over the next few years, perhaps to zero. For … the past dozen years Japan's export volume has gown much more rapidly than her domestic production. This divergence was … factors are running in reverse. If Japan's export growth does slow sharply, the mechanism will be a very strong yen …

United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a … continuous fall in the prices of traded goods relative to nontraded goods in Japan. In order to keep U.S. traded goods …

transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these recipient …

growth varies considerably over time and across the four countries, and it is always less important, except in Japan, than … Japan (30%), while TFP levels are very close in France, the United Kingdom and the United States, but much lower (40%) in … Japan …

Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided this coordination after the Meiji government failed at the task. We … that unique historical circumstances aided their success in prewar Japan. Specifically, Japan uniquely marginalized its …

realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … a percentage point of GDP. Taken together, these results indicate that a realignment of global growth -- with Japan and …