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In many ways, the current financial distress in Japan traces itself to the limited range of non-bank financial … intermediaries available. That limited availability is itself a creature of regulation. By examining the recent deregulation of … Stiglerian theory of regulation; at a more general level, they illustrate the trans-national economic logic to the Japanese …
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Although the executive branch appoints Japanese Supreme Court justices as it does in the United States, a personnel office under the control of the Supreme Court rotates lower court Japanese judges through a variety of posts. This creates the possibility that politicians might indirectly use the...
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The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in …
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Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly …
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Using micro-level data on attorney incomes in 2004, we reconstruct the industrial organization of the Japanese legal services industry. These data suggest a somewhat bifurcated bar, with two sources of unusually high income: talent in Tokyo, and scarcity elsewhere. The most talented would-be...
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