Similar Search Results

It Takes More than a Bubble to Become Japan

Posen, Adam S. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2003

Did monetary easing in the 1980s cause Japan's bubble, as is often suggested? Drawing on both a new cross …-national consideration of the monetary policy-asset price linkage and a reexamination of what actually occurred in Japan during 1985-90, I …'s bursting cause Japan's Great Recession? In fact, Japan's recession of 1990-94 was mild, and only a combination of policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627736

Diversification benefit of Japanese real estate over the last four decades

Maroney, Neal C.; Naka, Atsuyuki - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2003

This paper examines the benefits of diversifying into real estate and other assets that typify the wealth held by Japanese investors by examining movements in mean variance frontiers. We employ spanning tests to assess statistical significance of frontier shifts without specifying a benchmark...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005628176

Productivity Drivers in Japanese Seaports

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Managi, Shunsuke - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2008

This paper analyses efficiency drivers of a representative sample of Japanese seaports by means of the two-stage procedure proposed by Simar and Wilson (2007). In the first stage, the technical efficiency of seaports is estimated using several models of data envelopment analysis (DEA) that might...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005628412

Regionalisation of Innovation Policies and New University-Industry Links in Japan: Policy Review and New Trends

Kitagawa, Fumi; Woolgar, Lee - In: Prometheus 26 (2008) 1, pp. 55-67

This paper examines developments in the governance of science and innovation in Japan, with a particular focus on the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005629017

The Japanese Innovation System: University-Industry Linkages, Small Firms and Regional Technology Clusters

Edgington, David - In: Prometheus 26 (2008) 1, pp. 1-19

their impact on Japan's national and regional innovation systems are then outlined and a synopsis given of the other papers … in this special edition. The essay makes a number of concluding remarks on the appropriateness of Japan following the US …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005629018

Living with the "Enemy": An Analysis of Foreign Investment in the Japanese Equity Market.

Hamao, Y.; Mei, J. - Graduate School of Business, Columbia University - 1995

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005631033

Conspiracy in Industry or Conspiracy in Academe? A Review of Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer, The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy

Brennan, Timothy - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 15 (2008) 2, pp. 265-279

During the 1980s, a widespread belief that the Japanese economy was outperforming that of the US led to a search for causes. Perhaps top on the list was a view that the Japanese had rejected the US model of private market competition, substituting for it the use of very large horizontal and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005632699

Commonality of Social Policy on Homelessness: Beyond the Different Appearances of Japanese and English Policies

Iwata, Masami - In: European Journal of Housing Policy 3 (2003) 2, pp. 173-191

This paper aims to explore the commonality of social policies on homelessness between Japan and England and to discuss … the role of social policy in response to the recent emergence of homelessness throughout the world. Japan and England are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005633531

The ISO 14001 environmental management standard in Japan: results from a national survey of facilities in four industries

Mori, Yasuhumi; Welch, Eric - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 51 (2008) 3, pp. 421-445

-process certifiers, and to understand how ISO 14001 certification affects various environmental and managerial outcomes in Japan …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005633553

Country and sector-specific spillover effects in the euro area, the United States and Japan

Kaltenhaeuser, Bernd - European Central Bank - 2003

JEL Classification: F36, G15

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222331