This paper examines the exchange rate pass-through to yen based manufactured import prices of Japan using asymmetric … shown that the recession in Japan in the 1990s has significantly affected the exchange rate passthrough relationship …

Asian-Pacific nations, Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore …

Japan's government debt is extremely high, especially considering the fact that the data exclude likely future … factor is the degree to which the Bank of Japan has already monetised the debt. The monetary expansion up to the end of 2003 … has increased the net worth of the Bank of Japan, properly measured, to more than 17% of GDP, directly reducing the debt …

(latentes Arbeitskräfte potential). ++ In rezessiven Konjunkturphasen scheiden auch in Japan, Er werbstätige in beträchtlicher … Sicht dürfte die Arbeitslosigkeitsproblematik in Japan eher zu- als abnehmen. Das beschäftigungspolitische Instrumentarium …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … underestimation of the rise in unemployment in Japan in the period 1984-2002. Arguments are brought forward why this might be the case …

ceramics industry in Seto, Japan, Reg. Studies 31, 117-129. An examination of technological adaptation by small and medium …, Japan, Reg. Studies 31, 117-129. Eine Untersuchung der technologischen Anpassung kleiner und mittlerer Firmen in einem …

, the exogenous deposit outflow prompted by the removal of a blanket deposit guarantee on time deposits in Japan. We find …