In this paper, we analyze how the risk premiums in the Tokyo international interbank markets went through under the financial crisis. First, we briefly look back upon the financial situations under Japan's financial crisis at the end of the 1990s and under the global financial crisis that...

Empirical studies in corporate finance have long been interested in the role of banks in reducing the costs of financial distress. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how various measures of bank health and how defaults of major trading partners affected the probability of bankruptcy...

After prolonged recessions, the Japanese economy finally recovered in the first half of the 2000s, and recorded sustained growth until summer 2007. The purpose of this paper is to examine, from both macro and micro perspectives, the role of international trade with China in the recovery of...