's sporting event in Japan. The event is held immediately prior to the university application period in Japan. Using Japanese …

the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia showing relatively weak home bias and advanced Asia, especially Japan … capital has been flowing from the US and the Eurozone economies to both advanced Asia (especially Japan) and developing Asia … reasons. The main reason in the case of advanced Asia (especially Japan) appears to be higher riskadjusted returns, whereas …

In this paper, I find (1) that Japan showed massive and persistent current account surpluses from at least 1981 and … until at least 2011, (2) that Professor Ronald McKinnon was correct, at least in the case of Japan, and that these large and … persistent current account surpluses were due primarily to Japan's large and persistent IS imbalances (the excess of saving over …

. Estimating a fixed effects model, we found that supporters of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the winner, became … significantly happier, and supporters of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) and New Komeito, the losers, became …

In 1960s - 1980s Japan enjoyed high economic growth. In the early 1990s, however, the growth rate drastically declined … and thereafter Japan has been suffering secular stagnation. This paper proposes a dynamic macroeconomic model that can …