We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy … rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese … that, with minor adjustments, the same specification provides a useful framework for understanding monetary policy in Japan …

be driven by the greater importance of financial accounting statements in Germany than the US and stricter German …

economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the U.S …

and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

methodology in data from Germany, The Netherlands and the U.S. Marketplaces, comparing our modified approach to plan payment with …

preferences by implementing parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …