In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite … these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic …. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and housing, dominate the post-1950 record of US inflation. Analysis of …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

institutions in the United States and in Japan. While financial institutions affected corporate financial practices, the response …

Japan and South Korea during the period from November 2000 through March 2002 were due to increased competition from rival …

The determinants of interfirm trust are examined in 453 supplier automaker relationships in theU.S., Japan, and Korea … somedifferences across institutional environments, notably higher trust in Japan, the findings are robustacross the three … supplier trust in a sample ofsupplier/automaker relationships in the United States, Japan, and Korea. Given the recent …

Japanese market and the US West Coast market. Japan is the principal potential export market for Alaskan crude oil. Exports to …

coming from Japan, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. Several regions, the Far East, Japan, Latin American, and Africa …