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This paper reviews the literature on corporate groups in Japan and elsewhere, and offers a comparison of Japan's corporate groups with groups in other developed and developing countries. It then proceeds to examine the evolution of corporate groups in Japan since the mid-1970s. The main...
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More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
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-Saxon countries (the US and the UK), two Continental European countries (France and Germany) and two Scandinavian countries (Norway … probabilities observed in US, with mixed success in Europe. In contrast, matching shocks and job destruction shocks play a larger … role in most European countries relative to the US …
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We study a new data set of prices of traded dividends with maturities up to 10 years across three world regions: the US … to obtain a term structure of expected dividend growth rates and a term structure of risk premia, which allows us to …
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This paper develops a rational expectations model with multiple equilibrium unemployment rates where the price of capital may be unbounded above. I argue that this property is an important feature of any rational-agent explanation of a financial crisis, since for the expansion phase of the...
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We consider trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid real wage Europe. In a benchmark case, a move from autarky to free trade doubles the European unemployment rate, while it raises the American unskilled wage to the high European level. Entry of the unskilled South to world markets...
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Over the postwar, the U.S., Europe and Japan have experienced what may be thought of as medium frequency oscillations …
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This paper uses a sample of 116 recession episodes in developed and emerging market economies to compare the labor-market recovery during financial crises with that of other recession episodes. It documents two new stylized facts. First, labor-market recovery from financial crises is...
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We simulate corporate tax reform in a single good, five-region (U.S., Europe, Japan, China, India) model, featuring … skilled and unskilled labor, detailed region-specific demographics and fiscal policies. Eliminating the model's U.S. corporate … income tax produces rapid and dramatic increases in the model's level of U.S. investment, output, and real wages, making the …
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international patent applications in the US, Japan, the European Patent Office, and corresponding filings in three developing …
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