We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy … rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese … that, with minor adjustments, the same specification provides a useful framework for understanding monetary policy in Japan …

using data from both the United States and Japan. In both markets exposure to this factor is priced, and in the Japanese … in Japan display some evidence of negative correlation to domestic and foreign equity funds, suggesting that there is a … foreign vs. domestic sentiment factor in Japan that does not appear in the contemporaneous U.S. data. By contrast, U.S. mutual …

Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …

proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and …. Using productivity growth indexes for industries in the U.S. and in Japan we test the hypothesis that rapid technical change … to Japan than to the U.S …

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 …

-term interest rate in the U.S. and Japan during the period 1971:1-1989:3. The paper finds that similar variables, including the …

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 …