their individual savings rates by age. Using unique data from China that enable the re-construction of whole families and … young in China would be 21% lower if housing prices were at the same ratio to disposable incomes as that observed in the …

1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for the construction of technologically advanced … know-how, while others were eventually realized by China alone using domestic technology. We find that receiving both …

semiconductors in the late 1990s. In most high-tech fields, Japan is the only country outside the US with significant US patenting … activity; however, whereas Japan played an important role in the burst of neural network patenting in the 1990s, it has not …

Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the … over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …

Between 1992 and 2002, the Japanese Import Price Index registered a decline of almost 9 percent and Japan entered a … attributable to growth in the quality of Chinese exports and the increase in new products being exported by China …

, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period …China eventually becomes the world's saver and, thereby, the developed world's savoir with respect to its long … fall, the West and Japan see it rise by one fifth by 2030 and by three fifths by 2100. These wage increases are over and …

For China this suggests starting with a modest band widening and a limited increase in flexibility, and not with a … two decades of pegging at 360 yen, Japan decoupled from the dollar on August 1971 and then repegged at a revalued rate of …We analyze the impact of Japan's exit from its peg on exports and investment. The results point to sizeable effects of …

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …