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The purpose of this paper is to analyze sustainability issues of Japan%u2019s fiscal policy and then to discuss the … authority of Japan because it has accumulated the debt outstanding much more than other countries …
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Past government spending in Japan is currently imposing a significant fiscal burden that is reflected in a net debt to …
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-2004. First, we find that the Bank of Japan's policy commitment to continuing monetary easing until some prespecified conditions … sloping, indicating that the Bank of Japan's commitment failed to have su.cient influence on the market's expectations about … escape from the liquidity trap …
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Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports of what we term, unrequited interventions, interventions that the...
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targeted-inflation regime and a deflation regime and fit it to data from the U.S. and Japan. For the U.S. we find that adverse … subsequently. In contrast, Japan has experienced a switch to the deflation regime in 1999 and remained there since then, except for … effect in the deflation regime (Japan) …
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We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers'...
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In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
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We revisit the question of what determines the credibility of macroeconomic policies here, of promises to repay public debt. Almost all thinking on the issue has focused on governments' strategic decision to default (or erode the value of outstanding debt via inflation/devaluation). But...
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