This paper tries to make sense of the recent trade dispute between the U.S. and Japan in autos and auto parts. The … Japan, and that these differences have contributed to the growing bilateral trade deficit in auto parts. The paper also …

This paper identifies a "border" effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan … contemporaneous structure of Japan’s business and social networks, rather than cultural differences, induced by long …

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 …

Japan suggests that foreign firms sell five to six times more in Japan than is commonly believed. Previous studies severely … underestimated the stock of FDI in Japan due to poor data. Second, after finding that even after adjusting for various factors the … level of FDI in Japan is still low, the paper explores explanations for this phenomenon. A second main conclusion is that …

region. We find that features of a country associated with more trade with either Japan or the United States also tend to be … associated with more DFI from Japan or the United States. U.S. economic relations with Japan and Western Europe provide an … important exception. Despite U.S. concern about its trade deficit with Japan, we find Japan to be much more open to the United …