This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …

the two World Wars. This paper focuses on Japan, which as a minor participant, was not directly affected by World War I … Japan was at the time). We investigate the role of NPIs in ameliorating the economic costs for the sector during the …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine …

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …

the two World Wars. This paper focuses on Japan, which as a minor participant, was not directly affected by World War I … Japan was at the time). We investigate the role of NPIs in ameliorating the economic costs for the sector during the …

We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine …

(China, India, Russia, Brazil) on the other. …

. We calibrate such a model to China's trade with the rest of the world and explore two country tariff games using 2005 …

China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the … with this policy, China has been involved in recent years with the development of a Chinese standard in third generation (3 … experience raises issues for China's future development strategy based on product and process upgrading in manufacturing. We …