Empirical studies in corporate finance have long been focused on the role of banks in reducing the costs of financial distress. The environment and events in Japan provide a "natural experiment" that allows such empirical studies. The number of bankruptcies steadily increased throughout the...

This paper investigates the effects of money growth on nonconvergent dynamic paths in a money-in-utility model. When relative risk aversion is decreasing in money, period-two cycle and sunspot equilibria are always associated with a high rate of money supply growth. However, when relative risk...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how seasonal fluctuations in preference may change the dynamic stability and make multiple equilibria more likely outcome in a standard monetary economy. In the analysis, we investigate a model of money-in-the-utility function where real money balances...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what affected the post-crisis exchange rates of three ASEAN countries: Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. Our critical departure from previous studies is the use of intra-daily exchange rates. The use of the intra-daily data is useful in removing...

This paper investigates how "prices" in East Asian economies were correlated with those in Japan and with those in the United States. The analysis is particularly noteworthy because East Asian Economies are geographically close to Japan but their currencies have been more tied to the US dollar....