This paper examines external adjustment in the United States, Japan and Germany from the perspective of net foreign …

This chapter focuses on IMF's technical assistance (TA) activities and describes Japan Administered Account for … IMF resources for technical assistance. Japan also provides financial support for a scholarship program for qualified … Asian nationals who want to study economics at the doctoral level at one of the leading universities in North America to …

This paper uses vector autoregressions to examine the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan. The empirical results …

the fiscal situation around. The new policy framework provides the Bank of Japan with the scope to ease the policy stance … past year, Japan maintained its traditional emphasis on pursuing further trade liberalization through the World Trade …

highlights a number of important issues in understanding the transmission of shocks between Japan and the Asia-Pacific region …. Structural reforms, information technology, and medium-term growth prospects in Japan have been discussed. The paper traced some …

The paper provides an assessment of fiscal transparency practices in Japan against the requirements of the IMF code of … respects in which Japan meets high standards of fiscal transparency. Recent initiatives have improved fiscal transparency …

root of Japan's lackluster economic performance over the past decade. The government has appropriately identified banking …

With policy rates near the zero bound, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) has introduced a series of unconventional monetary …

liquidity risk. We find that, during Japan''s deflationary period, firms with more liquid balance sheets were less exposed to …