The decline in Japan's household saving rate accelerated sharply after 1998, but then decelerated again from 2003. Such nonlinear movement in the saving rate cannot be explained by the monotonic trend of population aging alone. According to the life cycle model of consumption and saving,...

Using the data from the Financial Statements Statistics of Corporations by Industry (FSSCI), we examine whether the decrease of corporate debt subsequent to the banking crisis in the late 1990s improved the efficiency of factor allocation at the microeconomic level. While the cross-sectoral...

This paper examines the behavior of stock and land prices during the bubble economy of the second half of the 1980s, paying considerable attention to the linkage of the two markets and the effects of monetary policy.In particular, we first examine whether the boom in asset prices can be...