During 1990s' the economy of Japan slipped into a long-sustained recession with strong deflation pressures. The aim of … macroeconomics, instead. One of them is liquidity trap that was highlighted by Paul Krugman's writings in the Japan's case. The paper … thus presents some of his rather unconventional opinions and confronts them with the Japan's economic developments in the …

growth and private savings in the USA and in Japan between 1960 and 2000 is investigated in the paper. The results of the … achieve a high rate of GDP growth at a stagnating NPCE term. In Japan an increase in the private savings ratio provoked an …. The causes of the different developments of the private savings ratio in the USA and Japan require further research. We …

The saving rate in Japan has declined rapidly. Analyzing the possible four factors that could affect the saving rate in …

In this paper, we analyse the saving behavior of the aged in Japan using household-level data from a 1992 survey …

saving behavior of the household sector. Notable feature of our modeling is that savings are divided into financial and real … savings components. This approach is useful since the motivations for savings depends on what life stage the household stands … and each motivati9on is realized as a special form of savings. In particular we can incorporate the change in the age …