collusion between the regulator and banks that endangers the safety net mechanism in Japan. Statistical analysis of data on …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

This study examines the effectiveness of bank recapitalization policies in Japan. Based on a careful reading of the … injection plan in Japan: 1) to increase the bank capital ratios 2) to increase lending, in particular to small and medium … regional banks in Japan. The first capital injection in 1997 was effective primarily in helping international banks to clear …

rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990 … respect to four of the others. So far the U.S. has avoided Japan's problem of having impaired banks prop up zombie firms …

disperse and its apprehension is complicated for a foreign reader, Japan counts on a modern, thorough and adequate group of …

competition effect on systemic-risk. Japan is an interesting case in this venue since its regional banking system has confronted … intensified competition and there is growing evidence that the competition has led the portfolio of Japan's regional banks to be … between competition and systemic-risk for Japan's regional banks. We find that the bank mark-up is negatively associated with …