Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between …

directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct … investments in the United States. Using an original firm-level data set on Japanese firms' FDI and innovative activity find … evidence that FDI increases the flow of knowledge spillovers both from and to the investing Japanese firms …

: the continued decline in Japanese FDI during a period of stable stock prices and a rapidly appreciating yen. However, when … are able to show that unequal access to credit by Japanese firms can explain the FDI puzzle in the 1990s. We utilize a … unique data set that links individual Japanese firms engaged in FDI to their main banks. Using both bank-level and firm …

reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer … relative declines during each event window; a symmetric effect is observed for Chinese companies with high Japanese exposure …. The effect on Japanese companies is more pronounced for those operating in industries dominated by Chinese state …

This paper develops a model of informal procurement within Japanese keiretsu so as to consider effects on intermediate … production costs. Lack of information concerning investment rents combined with counterintuitive effects on imports and Japanese …

paper investigates whether bank ties in Japan were costly for mature and healthy firms in the 1980's and 1990's, and whether … criteria to solve the endogenous firm-sorting problem, I measure the investment-cash flow sensitivity of Japanese firms, and …

of corporate groups in Japan is limited. 2. Japanese groups are, in some respects, quite similar to groups in other …This paper reviews the literature on corporate groups in Japan and elsewhere, and offers a comparison of Japan … groups in Japan since the mid-1970s. The main conclusions that emerge are that: 1. Empirical evidence on the economic roles …

We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms … for subsequent FDI. Using data on Japanese FDI activity by both keiretsu and non-keiretsu manufacturing firms, we find …