derive a system of consumer demand functions for quality-differentiated beef in Japan. We choose a particular utility …

? And why did it take so long for Japan to recover from the bursting of its asset price bubble of the late 1980s? In this … volume, a team from the International Monetary Fund examines the causes of the lingering economic problems of Japan, the … economy through a series of stimulus packages. This book presents a compelling story about Japan's economy. Its message - that …

Japan showed strong economic recovery from the crisis. Executive Directors welcomed the development and stressed the … Bank of Japan’s monetary framework is well suited to the post deflation environment and welcomed the improvement in …

commodities that are traded between Japan and its East Asian trading partners to investigate the response of tradable goods prices … customs data for the period 1988-98, it shows that price pass-through is much larger for exports from Japan than for imports … to Japan …