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 …

primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate this higher inflation. Are household inflation expectations sensitive …

. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are …, participation in the labor force has declined by 7 percentage points, an unparalleled fall that dwarfs the three percentage point … cumulative decline that occurred from 2008 to 2016. Early retirement almost fully explains the drop in labor force participation …

decline in employment in recent months as well as declines in consumer spending. While lockdowns have pronounced effects on …

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 …