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Credit Booms, Debt Overhang and Secular Stagnation

Illing, Gerhard - 2017

the macroeconomic developments in Japan during its lost decades and other advanced economies before and during the Great …

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Why has Japan's massive government debt not wreaked havoc (yet)?

Horioka, Charles Yuji; Nomoto, Takaaki; … - 2013

In this paper, we present data on trends over time in government debt financing in Japan since 2010 with emphasis on … saving) caused by population aging, will make it necessary for Japan to get its fiscal house in order. Thus, Japan's massive …

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Financial distress and corporate investment: The Japanese case in the 90s

Ogawa, Kazuo - 2003

We examine quantitatively the extent to which financial distress in the 90s affected Japanese corporate investment. Based on the firm-level data that includes small, unlisted firms, we estimate investment function to measure the impact of financial distress on investment. We find that the firm's...

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The causes of Japan's 'lost decade': The role of household consumption

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2006

In this paper, I analyze the causes of the prolonged slowdown of the Japanese economy in the 1990s and find that the stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the stagnation of household consumption during the 1990s...

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The role of sponsor and external management on the capital structure of Asian-Pacific REITs: The case of Australia, Japan, and Singapore

Chen, Dong; Gao, Yanmin; Kaul, Mayank; Leung, Charles Ka Yui - 2015

three major Asian-Pacific REIT markets: Australia, Japan and Singapore. Our empirical results indicate that sponsored REITs …

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Preference for young workers in mid-career recruiting using online ads for sales jobs: Evidence from Japan

Zvedelikova, Mirka - 2022

This study uses an original dataset of online mid-career job ads for full-time sales jobs collected from July 2018 to December 2019 to examine the use of explicit and implied age limits on job applicants and characteristics of companies that set them. Although Japanese law prohibits age...

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Does self-regulation of advertisement length improve consumer welfare?

Matsubae, Taisuke; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012

In Japan, TV platforms regulate themselves as to the length of the advertisements they air. Using modified Hotelling …

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Testing the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Ohtake, Fumio - 2004

workers' income satisfaction and work morale. This paper uses the current deflationary recession in Japan to estimate this …

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Do the elderly dissave in Japan?

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2004

In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando's seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …

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Why are concavity conditions not satisfied in the cost function? The case of Japanese manufacturing firms during the bubble period

Ogawa, Kazuo - 2008

This paper examines empirically some of the reasons why Japanese manufacturing firms frequently fail to satisfy concavity conditions of the cost function. We focus on the 'bubble period' in the 1980s when land was in great demand for reasons related to both production and speculation, and land...

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