also uses actual trade data between Japan and Indonesia and between Japan and Korea …

Using the international input-output tables between Japan and five Pacific Basin countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia … 1985. It shows that intra-industry trade in manufactured products expanded as Japan increased imports of more capital …

implications for Japan and Asia of several shocks to the Japanese economy. The results suggest that, while fiscal consolidation in … Japan would initially dampen domestic growth, over the medium term the impact on both the domestic and regional economies … would be positive. Quantitative monetary easing in Japan would boost domestic activity in the short-run, while being …

commodities that are traded between Japan and its East Asian trading partners to investigate the response of tradable goods prices … customs data for the period 1988-98, it shows that price pass-through is much larger for exports from Japan than for imports … to Japan …

This paper examines the role of Japan against that of China in the exchange rate regime in East Asia in light of … generate higher average welfare gains for East Asian countries than currency unions with Japan or the United States. Overall …, Japan does not appear to be a dominant player in forming a currency union in East Asia, and this trend is likely to continue …