This notes outlines how to solve Hayashi and Prescott (2007) "The 1990s: Japan's Lost Decade", extended with an exogenous population growth and labour-augmenting technical progress, using a Linear-Quadratic Approximation as in Ljungqvist and Sargent (2004).

The Economics of an Ageing Population studies the effects of demographic transition on the economies of industrialised countries. The authors demonstrate that an ageing population does not necessarily lead to a reduction in growth, providing that the working population are more productive and...

Why didn't the Japanese miracle take place before World War II? The culprit we identify is a barrier that kept prewar agricultural employment constant. Using a standard neoclassical two-sector growth model, we show that the barrier-induced sectoral distortion and an ensuring lack of capital...

The question we address in this paper is why the Japanese miracle didn't take place until after World War II. For much of the pre-WWII period, Japan's real GNP per worker was not much more than a third of that of the U.S., with falling capital intensity. We argue that its major cause is a...

Detailed macroeconomic data to accompany the article in the Review of Economic Dynamics