sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …

"Abenomics" refers to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who became prime minister of Japan … experienced Japan's rapid growth of retired people. In this paper we will explain these three aspects of Abenomics and the current … state of the Japanese economy, and examine what further remedies may be required if Japan is to recover from its long …

the economy has often been debated. We estimated its impact in the Kyushu region of Japan by using the difference … impact not only in the case of Japan but also in other cases such as Uzbekistan. …

This paper aims to provide an overview of the basics of Japan's local public administration and finance system and to … analyze how Japan's municipalities restore their fiscal balance after a fiscal shock. In Japan, local governments play a major … large vertical fiscal gap in Japan between the central and local governments - a gap that necessitates the transfer of funds …

In April 2013, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) introduced an inflation target of 2% with the aim of overcoming deflation and … reduce its 2% inflation target in the present low oil price era. Secondly, it argues that Japan cannot make a sustainable … interest rates are set too low. Japan's long-term recession is due to structural problems that cannot be solved by its current …

Japan and the United States to examine whether individuals who receive intergenerational transfers from their parents are … children in both Japan and the United States, which in turn is likely to contribute to the persistence or widening of wealth …

Since 1998, sales channels for investment trusts have expanded in Japan. We expected this to result in greater demand … Japanese markets. Investment trusts are the vehicle for seizing world economic trends. However, the performance of Japan …

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was an accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, Japan …-long nuclear shutdown in the country. During the shutdown, Japan substituted fossil fuels for nuclear power and became more … elasticity of oil consumption to crude oil price before and after the Fukushima disaster in Japan's various economic sectors. To …

This paper compares the sources of income inequality in Japan and the United States. We exploit two longitudinal … household surveys to decompose the income inequality in both countries. For Japan, we use Keio Household Panel Survey data and … Japan (0.329), corroborating well-established previous findings. In a second step, we decompose the income inequality in …