This paper develops and tests a model of Japan’s household savings rate, based on the life-cycle hypothesis that the … primary motive for savings is provision for retirement. The paper shows that Japan’s high household savings rate in recent …

flows. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the tax reform proposed recently in Japan satisfies the above … principles, in particular, efficiency and equity, and to investigate the effects not only on the real economy in Japan, but also … on capital outflows from Japan to abroad. Also, the aging problem is examined briefly …

This paper estimates an inflation function and forecasts one-year ahead inflation for Japan. It finds that (i) markup …

diffusion including the role of distance. A continuous-time model is estimated on several European countries, Japan, and the …

the extent of the link between inflation rates between China and the United States and Japan. It finds only limited … and Japan. However, it finds some evidence that inflation in the United States has an impact on Chinese inflation … between prices in China and in the United States and Japan, both for food and at the household level for manufactured goods …

For a large part of the past decade, Japan has witnessed a steady deterioration in the health of its banking system …