This paper examines the Japanese economy in the 1990s, a decade of economic stagnation. We find that the problem is not a breakdown of the financial system, as corporations large and small were able to find financing for investments. There is no evidence of profitabkle investment opportunities...

Instructional dataset, accompanying Econometrics, Fumio Hayashi, Princeton University Press, (c) 2000 Datasets also accessible in ASCII from http://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hayashi/datasets.htm Data from the M. Nerlove paper "Returns to scale in electricity supply", in C. Christ, ed., Measurement in...

Instructional dataset, accompanying Econometrics, Fumio Hayashi, Princeton University Press, (c) 2000 Datasets also accessible in ASCII from http://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hayashi/datasets.htm Data from the Christensen-Greene paper "Economies of scale in U.S. electric power generation,", J....

The question we address in this paper is why the Japanese miracle didn't take place until after World War II. For much of the pre-WWII period, Japan's real GNP per worker was not much more than a third of that of the U.S., with falling capital intensity. We argue that its major cause is a...

We study the ex-dividend day behavior of Japanese stock prices for the period 1983-87. We find that, contrary to previous findings, prices of ex-day stocks drop by nearly the full amount of the dividend. However, ex-day stocks shows an abnormal return. Also, for the many ex-dividend day stocks...

This paper examines available evidence on Japan's wealth accumulation. Time-series evidence over the last one hundred years indicates that the phenomenon of extraordinarily high Japanese saving rate ia limited to the high-growth era of 1965-1975. Micro evidence about consumption and aaving by...