compared with the public operator. The present work wants to analyse the highway privatization processes in Italy and Japan … process (even if some regulatory issues have risen) while Japan still faces a strong public presence. …

Japan, this study contributes to the literature by investigating the said relationship within the time–frequency space. Over … changing. If the Bank of Japan needs to control the exchange rate, it should give proper importance to shocks on oil prices …

investigating how the rebalancing of Japan's economic growth mode was realized in the 1970s, we indicate that it is essential in the … to Japan's experience to indicate that achieving domestic rebalancing does not necessarily lead to external rebalancing. …

Japan has suffered from long-lasting but mild deflation since the latter half of the 1990s. Estimates of a standard … explain Japan's chronic deflation, including the zero-lower bound on the nominal interest rate, public attitudes toward the …

this relationship. We use micro data for Japan, which has experienced low interest rates for a prolonged period, to …

provide more sophisticated forecasting information for prefectural economies in Japan through the complicated extension. …

Japan’s agriculture has been inward oriented, protected by trade barriers from foreign competition. Even though the … share of Japan’s food consumption provided by Japanese production has gradually fallen, Japan’s farm sector remains the … second-largest among the countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Japan’s food industry is increasingly …