Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …

We use a large household panel for Japan (Keio Household Panel Survey) to estimate household-size economies in energy … sector. Between 2005 and 2010, for example, average household size in Japan decreased by about five percent. The resulting … consumption. The household-size economies we obtain are significant and sizable: the per-capita energy-related spending of a two …

Following a major earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan, a tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three …-in-differences approach we use panel data for 5,979 individuals interviewed in Japan before and after the accident to analyze the effect of … Fukushima site being equivalent to up to 72 percent of annual household income. We find no evidence for increased nation …

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 … interventions (NPIs) in determining the economic impact of the pandemic. We do so by focusing on the production and employment in … Japan was at the time). We investigate the role of NPIs in ameliorating the economic costs for the sector during the …