, highlighting the experience of Japan. By a host of criteria, Japan appeared to be in a stronger position than most countries at the …. However, Japan followed a clear international boom-and-bust pattern in terms of real output growth, credit growth and stock … macroeconomic variables and institutional characteristics. The model predicts a high probability of banking sector distress in Japan …

rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990 … respect to four of the others. So far the U.S. has avoided Japan's problem of having impaired banks prop up zombie firms …

in the US post-bubble period. But the US has worse fiscal and current account imbalances than Japan had at the same stage …

survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …

The Japanese are becoming older. Americans are also becoming older. Demographic stress in Japan, measured by the … dependency ratio (DR), is currently about 0.64. In the immediate pre-WWII era it was even higher because Japan's total fertility … note I simulate the DR under various conditions and make comparisons with the US. Japan has experienced a large increase in …