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Is the Japanese Distribution System Really Inefficient?

Ito, Takatoshi - 1990

This paper investigates the efficiency of the Japanese distribution system, measured by the distribution margin. Most of the discussions on the Japanese distribution system have so far relied on institutional descriptions and anecdotal evidence, failing to substantiate the case. The present...

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Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure

Chernenko, Sergey - 2010

Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if equity is overvalued, however, mispricing offsets agency costs...

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Money and Government : A Study of China and Japan from a Historical Perspective

Sui, Qing-yuan - 2022

Preface -- Chapter 1. A Preliminary Introduction -- Chapter 2. Puzzles of the Monetary Regime in Premodern China -- Chapter 3. The Divergence between China and Japan -- Chapter 4. The Worst Currency or The Best Arrangement? -- Chapter 5. An Epilogue -- Index.

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The Japanese Economy During the Great Depression : The Emergence of Macroeconomic Policy in A Small and Open Economy, 1931–1936

Shizume, Masato - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

Introduction: Takahashi Korekiyo, the Man Who Brought Japan Out of the Great Depression -- Japan’s Plunge into and Emergence from the Great Depression -- Policy Innovation in the Great Depression -- Sustainability of Public Debt under Stress -- Origins of the Economic Ideas of Takahashi...

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Role of Reinsurance in the World : Case Studies of Eight Countries

Caruana de las Cagigas, Leonardo (ed.); Straus, André. (ed.) - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

Chapter 1 Reinsurance in America Regulatory Regimes and Markets -- Chapter 2 Dutch reinsurance and the first wave of globalization -- Chapter 3 Swedish Reinsurers in the Non-Life Sector -- Chapter 4 The ups and downs of French reinsurance in the 20th century -- Chapter 5 The ups and downs of...

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Productivity Growth in the Automobile Industry, 1970-1980 : A Comparisonof Canada, Japan and the United States

Fuss, Melvyn A. - 1985

In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of short-run disequilibrium in this industry-variations'...

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Confucian Capitalism : Shibusawa Eiichi, Business Ethics, and Economic Development in Meiji Japan

Sagers, John H. - 2018

business, government, trade associations, and educational institutions all have valuable roles to play in establishing a …

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Applied Analysis of Growth, Trade, and Public Policy : Ten Years of International Academic Exchanges Between JAAE and KEBA

Hosoe, Moriki (ed.); Kim, Iltae (ed.); Yabuta, Masahiro (ed.) - 2018

This book analyzes the various problems of growth, trade and public policy from the perspective of applied economics …, based on research in areas such as public policies, trade and regulation, and development economics. Part 1 investigates the … broad problems of growth and regional economy, focusing on economic developments in Japan and Korea. Part 2 discusses trade …

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Trade Relations between Qing China and Tokugawa Japan : 1685–1859

Peng, Hao - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019

1 Introduction -- 2 Commercial Intermediaries in the Nagasaki Trade -- 3 The Mechanism and Functions of the Shinpai … Underside of the Junks Trade: Maritime Smuggling and Urban Trafficking -- 6 The Copper Trade of Qing China’s Official Merchants … -- 8 Internal Organization of Chinese Trading Groups in Relation to the Qing Authorities -- 9 Trade Under Pre …

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Dynamics of Japan's Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980-2000)

Keizai Sangyō Kenkyūjo - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

MITI's interpretation of the economy's changing needs. Covering such topics as the oil shocks, trade conflict with the …

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