This paper reaches seven conclusions regarding the Yen Bloc that Japan is reputed to be forming in Pacific Asia. (1 … is no evidence of a special Japan effect. (3) Once one properly accounts for rapid growth in Asia, the statistics do not … Asian countries, though overall its influence is as yet no greater than that of New York. (6) Some of Japan's financial and …

this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …

, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Time series regressions of the real exchange rate on … relative prices indicate a role for relative prices for Indonesia, Japan and Korea. When examining real exchange rates and … relative productivity ratios, one finds a relationship for Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Only when augmenting the …

, Canada, Japan, the European Community, Australia and New Zealand, and in the region itself is also studied, revealing the … familiar result that the developing countries of the region and Japan have increased their market shares significantly since …