fairly stable. Possible factors include: Japan''s sizeable pool of household savings, presence of large and stable …

. The results indicate that aggregate FDI outflows have been driven by investment in Japan and the exchange rate, while the …

of empirical study using a data set that includes Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States …

The paper summarizes how Japan’s foreign exchange and trade control system operated in the early 1950s, how and how …

This Selected Issues paper discusses the impact of global financial turmoil on Japan. It describes how close …

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

Japan is facing a sizable fiscal imbalance against a backdrop of weak trend growth and growing external imbalances in … reforms on the Japanese and world economies. Simulation results indicate that these could reduce substantially Japan''s fiscal … imbalance with only limited spillovers to the rest of the world. Specifically, faster productivity growth would help lower Japan …

implications for Japan and Asia of several shocks to the Japanese economy. The results suggest that, while fiscal consolidation in … Japan would initially dampen domestic growth, over the medium term the impact on both the domestic and regional economies … would be positive. Quantitative monetary easing in Japan would boost domestic activity in the short-run, while being …