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Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions that spread … Germany and Japan. …

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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan, and South Korea

Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017

China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …

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The decline in average family size and its implications for the average benefits of within-household sharing

Schröder, Carsten; Rehdanz, Katrin; Narita, Daiju; … - 2015

Japan. The application indicates that household economies of scale in energy use are substantial and that the 5% decline in … average household size in Japan between 2005 and 2010 led to an economy-wide loss in household economies of scale amounting to …

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Back to the "normal" level of human-capital driven growth? : a note on early numeracy in Korea, China and Japan, 1550 - 1800

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–1630, and evidence on Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800. We found that a substantial share of East Asians … Korea, Japan, and China returned to the growth-path at different points of the 20th century, and this return was pre …

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Prediction of financial downside-risk with heavy-tailed conditional distributions

Mittnik, Stefan; Paolella, Marc S. - 2003

The use of GARCH models with stable Paretian innovations in financial modeling has been recently suggested in the literature. This class of processes is attractive because it allows for conditional skewness and leptokurtosis of financial returns without ruling out normality. This contribution...

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The zero-interest-rate and the role of the exchange rate for monetary policy in Japan

Coenen, Günter; Wieland, Volker - 2003

interest rates as experienced in Japan since the mid-1990s. Our analysis is based on an estimated model of Japan, the United … impact of the zero bound on the effectiveness of interest rate policy in Japan in terms of stabilizing output and inflation …

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