rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990 … respect to four of the others. So far the U.S. has avoided Japan's problem of having impaired banks prop up zombie firms …

Promotion of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) into Japan has been an important policy in the Abenomics growth … stock for Japan. Although the actual inward FDI stock has been growing and is likely to achieve the goal of 35 trillion yen … suggested by the estimated model. We also estimate the model without Japan as a destination country and use the estimated model …

During this decade the structure of corporate finance in Japan has changed dramatically. Japanese firms that once used …

Using a unique dataset on all major corporate restructuring events in Japan between 1981 and 2010, we examine how bank …-led rescue operations in Japan have changed over time. The incidence of restructuring by distressed firms has become less … findings as strong indicators of changing corporate governance in Japan, in particular in terms of the decline in corporate …

We construct quarterly series of the revenues, expenditures, and debt outstanding for Japan from 1980 to 2010, and …