Japan's access to our markets will have few lasting effects on either country's overall trade balance, and that trade …

Researchers believe that rice in developed countries such as Japan became an inferior good a few decades ago. This … study employs the flexible complete demand system for the recent cross-sectional data in Japan. Our results clearly show … that rice in Japan is a normal good contrary to the preceding studies. The objective of this research is to analyze the …

, highlighting the experience of Japan. By a host of criteria, Japan appeared to be in a stronger position than most countries at the …. However, Japan followed a clear international boom-and-bust pattern in terms of real output growth, credit growth and stock … macroeconomic variables and institutional characteristics. The model predicts a high probability of banking sector distress in Japan …

This paper compares the performance of a convoy banking system, similar to that which prevailed in Japan, to a fixed …