Investment (FDI), within a Dissipation of Intangible Assets framework. In a two-period model, we discuss how the threat of …

Why is it that Kyoto, ancient cultural capital of Japan, a conservative and traditional place in many ways, manages to … produce Japan's most innovative (and profitable) high technology entrepreneurial firms? Further, what causes regions such as … policies in Japan, I present a new model for regional innovation systems (RIS) and cluster emergence. I also include brief …

Since the mid-1990s, Japan has instituted a series of policy reforms in order to encourage greater university …

, highlighting the experience of Japan. By a host of crietria, 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 …

This paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate in the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy reaction function …

: Interventions by Japan's central bank strenghten the dollar against the euro. …

, while the Q literature has used cash flow sensitivity analysis to test whether financing constraints hinder investment … in Japan were costly for mature and healthy firms in the 1980s and 1990s and whether banks continued to facilitate … investment once non-bank financing options became available. Using the explicit bond issuing criteria to solve the endogenous …