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Japan's Deteriorating Fiscal Situation
Dekle, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 4 (2003) 4, pp. 16-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998651
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Management and the Varieties of Capitalism, from <i>The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
Jacoby, Sanford M. - Princeton University Press
book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by … corporate governance, and even for the level of inequality in Japan and the United States. <i>The Embedded Corporation</i> is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797569
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Japan's Paradoxical Response to the new 'Global Standard' in Corporate Governance
Buchanan, John; Deakin, Simon - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007
We suggest, on the basis of empirical research into the implementation of recent legal reforms, that Japan is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162851
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The Determinants of Executive Compensation in Japan and the UK: Agency Hypothesis or Joint Determination Hypothesis?
Kubo, Katsuyuki - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2001
, by comparing the UK and Japan. There is a positive and significant relationship between directors' pay and employees …' average wage in Japan, suggesting that both directors and employees have a similar incentive system while no such relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045134
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A Lost Decade for Corporate Governance? What’s Changed, What Hasn’t, and Why
Milhaupt, Curtis - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004
Analysis of Japanese corporate law reveals a striking amount of formal institutional change in the past ten years, occurring at an ever-accelerating pace. This feature of law reform can be traced to a heightened awareness of the organizational straightjacket imposed on Japanese firms by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644826
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Towards an Understanding of the Phases of Goodwill Accounting in Four Western Capitalist Countries: From Stakeholder Model to Shareholder Model
Ding, Yuan; Richard, Jacques; Stolowy, Hervé - HAL - 2008
The objective of this paper is to illustrate that the change in shareholders' attitude towards firms (from stakeholder model to shareholder model) influences the accounting treatments of goodwill. Our study is based on four countries (Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and France) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151311
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Complementarities in Corporate Governance. A Survey of the Literature with Special Emphasis on Japan
Heinrich, Ralph P. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
The present paper uses a comparison of Japan and the US to argue that the debate about corporate governance reform is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755274
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Why is the gender wage gap in Japan so large compared with France? : a comparison based on decomposition analysis
Hori, Haruhiko; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006
countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they … are particularly large. It is also proposed to explore the reasons why the male/female wage gap is so large in Japan in … markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790464
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What Is the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Banking System in East Asia?
Pomerleano, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2009
liquidity (CAMEL). [WP 146]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004981656
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Asset Price Shocks, Financial Constraints, and Investment: Evidence from Japan
Goyal, Vidhan K.; Yamada, Takeshi - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2002
This paper examines investment spending of Japanese firms around the "asset price bubble" in the late-1980s and makes three contributions to our understanding of how stock valuations affect investment. First, corporate investment responds significantly to nonfundamental components of stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045155