The volume is a collection of papers on 'M&A in Japan - a new instrument for corporate policy', with a special emphasis … international M&A in recent years. Next, preliminery results of a survey among German enterprises with business interests in Japan … M&A in Japan are discussed. …

deutschen/europäischen außenpolitischen und außenwirtschaftspolitischen Beziehungen mit Japan, dessen Zielsetzung die Erstellung … Interessierten auch über das Internet zugänglich ist (http://www.uniduisburg.de/FB5/VWL/OAWI/JAPAN/allgemein.html). …

-specific factors. In an empirical analysis of term structures of government bond yields for the Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U …

of recent announcements regarding direct asset purchases by the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the U.S. Federal … Reserve and the European Central Bank. Empirical evidence from the previous period of quantitative easing in Japan between … 2001 and 2006 is presented. During this earlier period the Bank of Japan was able to expand the monetary base very quickly …

high prices and discourage imports into Japanese markets. The paper also argues that Japan's weak anti …-wheeling markets. Liberal reformist measures in Japan are animportant corrective and supplement to mercantilist policy, but are not … likely tofundamentally transform Japan's political-economic system …