This paper explores how the tax treatment of investment and savings affects international capital flows as well as national and global welfare. Focusing on portfolio investment, it evaluates the international effects of capital income taxes in the United States and Japan. During the 1980s, these...

When the Japanese government adopted Western medicine in the late nineteenth century, it left intact the infrastructure of primary care by giving licenses to the existing practitioners and by initially setting the hurdle for entry into medical school low. Public financing of hospitals was kept...

This article is a contribution to the Special Issue: COVID-19 and Fiscal Policies of the Intertax, by the invitation of Professor Ana Paula Dourado, general editor of the journal. Focusing on the developments in Japan in the spring of 2020, it comments on the tax measures contained in the...