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structure as contributing factors. This paper contends that the economic structure and policies of Japan have also done much to … contribute to the trade imbalance. Institutional features of Japan's macroeconomy and industrial structure which have promoted … by Japan in causing the bilateral trade imbalance, the next question the paper addresses is how Japan might best act to …
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United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan during the recent crisis on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia …
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realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … a percentage point of GDP. Taken together, these results indicate that a realignment of global growth -- with Japan and …
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In this paper, I analyze the causes of the prolonged slowdown of the Japanese economy in the 1990s and find that the stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the stagnation of household consumption during the 1990s...
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Policy discussions in Japan have increasingly recognized the important role of land values and land-use patterns in … Japanese macroeconomic adjustment. In Japan in recent years, land wealth constitutes more than half of financial wealth, a …
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Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...
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instrument and target variables. The time spans examined are 1962-1998 for the U.S. and U.K., and 1972-1998 for Japan. In …
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Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …
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Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between plant size and growth for these foreign-owned plants. These plants average sizes are three times larger than comparable U.S. plants and experienced 30 percent growth from 1987...
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We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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