We investigate the motives and consequences of the consolidation of banks in Japan during the period of fiscal year …

We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms …

Japan suggests that foreign firms sell five to six times more in Japan than is commonly believed. Previous studies severely … underestimated the stock of FDI in Japan due to poor data. Second, after finding that even after adjusting for various factors the … level of FDI in Japan is still low, the paper explores explanations for this phenomenon. A second main conclusion is that …

As in many countries (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Sweden), concentrated ownership is a ubiquitous feature of …

, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …

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

prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …

timings and amounts for Japan, the US, and Germany. Fourth, we present the episode of international coordination represented …