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Japan’s high corporate savings might be holding back growth. We focus on the causes and consequences of the current … corporate behavior and suggest options for reform. In particular, Japan’s weak corporate governance—as measured by available … comprehensive corporate governance reform should be a key component of Japan’s growth strategy …
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We trace Japanese firms’ behavior over the last decades using aggregate corporate balance sheet data. Financial health of Japanese corporate sector has improved and firms paid back significant amount of debt and rebuilt their liquidity buffers. They also expanded abroad while the pace of...
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materialize, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) should act swiftly through further and/or longer- dated asset purchases. Communication should … continue to be proactive in monitoring these risks. Japan’s external position is assessed as broadly in balance—compared to …
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particularly concerning in Japan, where the success of Abenomics depends on a transition from stimulus-driven to self …
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Market policies play a crucial role in facilitating the transition to a low-carbon society by restructuring the electricity market and influencing stakeholder behavior. Policymakers are concerned with how to implement these policies in terms of their intensity, combination, and timing. However,...
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This paper presents the first set of borrowing agreements that have been finalized as part of the loan mobilization round launched in July 2021 to cover the cost of pandemic-related lending and support the self-sustainability of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT). All agreements...
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This paper assesses Japan's fiscal stance in the past and the future with a stochastic structural model called the …
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This paper conducts micro-simulations to study the distributional effects of several tax measures in Japan, considering …
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This paper investigates labor market dynamics in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic drawing on macro and micro data …
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