Financial globalization and East Asian capitalism : an overview / Jongryn Mo, Daniel I. Okimoto -- The politics of reform in Japanese finance : assessing the relative influence of foreign investors / Jennifer Amyx -- Policymaking in the era of financial globalization : the battle for Japanese...

Banks matter for economic growth, for poverty alleviation, for income distribution and for human welfare as a whole. And banks matter when they fail. According to Ross Levine (2005), the fiscal costs of banking crises in developing countries since 1980 have exceeded $1 trillion, and some...

This is a story of Japanese business and finance since 1986. During the "bubble" in the late 80s caused by the 2.5% prime rate, racketeers had a field day buying land. Then easy money was suddenly stopped, saddling banks with nearly 1 trillion in uncolle