Free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia in recent years. As of December 2008, eight bilateral FTAs … and one plurilateral FTA involving Japan have entered into force; additional negotiations are ongoing with several more … countries. The proliferation of FTAs in Japan and other Asian countries is thought to be behind the perceived overlapping rules …

touch upon the implications for Asia and Japan, from the point of view of the choice of exchange rate regime as a method to …

bank-dominated financial systems in Asia, banks are the main source of financing for SMEs. For financial institutions, it … databases, such as the Credit Risk Database (CRD) of Japan. This will also help governments to formulate economic policies. In … this paper we define and describe in detail the role and characteristics of Japan's CRD in SME development and explain how …

creating a stable monetary zone in Asia, Japan needs to make significant efforts at the national and regional levels and …This paper discusses Japan's strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy … in East Asia, and the most realistic option is for the region's emerging economies to adopt similar managed floating …

literature review of pay-for-performance in long-term care in the United States and in Asia. …

Substantial evidence exists that economic inequality in Asia has been growing, but the dimensions of this inequality … demographic groups in income surveys from six middle- and high-income countries across Asia: the People’s Republic of China (PRC …) (2002); India (2004); Japan (2008); Republic of Korea (2006); the Russian Federation (2004, 2007, and 2010); and Taipei …

wastewater management. This study explains the evolution of Japan's decentralized wastewater management system and extracts …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the spillover effects Japan's negative interest rate policy (NIRP) had on Asian … only had limited impacts on Japan's economy but also raised a serious concern about profitability of local financial … rate. In the analysis, we examine spillover effects on Asian stock markets. We find that Japan's long-term interest rate …