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New development in the Japanese corporate governance in the 1990s – The role of corporate pension funds

Suto, Megumi - 2000

In recent years, there has been a slow but steady change in ownership structures and corporate governance in Japan. As …In den letzten Jahren ist in Japan ein allmählicher stetiger Wandel in Besitzverhältnissen, Unternehmensführung und … diesem Prozeß. In Japan fungieren Treuhandbanken und Lebensversicherer als Treuhänder der Pensionsfonds. Sie schenken dem …

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Real-Time Estimation of the Output Gap in Japan and its Usefulness for Inflation Forecasting and Policymaking

Kamada, Koichiro - 2004

This paper examines the methods used by the Bank of Japan for the estimation of the output gap. Attention is paid to …

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Central Bank accountability and transparency: theory and some evidence

Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Hoeberichts, Marco - 2000

accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve … Japan, Bank of England und Federal Reserve System). Im zweiten Teil stellen wir eine Theorie über die Rechenschaftspflicht …

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Asset Ownership and Foreign-Market Entry

Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2005

This paper examines the link between a firm's owership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry- and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through greenfield...

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Whole versus Shared Ownership of Foreign Affiliates

Stähler, Frank; Ryan, Michael; Raff, Horst - 2007

This paper studies why multinational firms often share ownership of a foreign affiliate with a local partner even in the absence of government restrictions on ownership. We show that shared ownership may arise, if (i) the partner owns assets that are potentially important for the investment...

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Firm-Specific Characteristics and the Timing of Foreign Direct Investment Projects

Ryan, Michael; Raff, Horst - 2007

This paper uses a proportional hazard model to study foreign direct investment by Japanese manufacturers in Europe between 1970 and 1994. We divide each firm?s investment total into a sequence of individual investment decisions and analyze how firm-specific characteristics affect each decision....

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Firm Productivity and the Foreign-Market Entry Decision

Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2008

We use Japanese firm-level data to examine how a firm?s productivity affects its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We study a sequence of decisions, starting with the choice between exporting and foreign direct investment (FDI). In the case of FDI, the firm faces two options: greenfield...

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The Changing Role of the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate for Japanese Monetary Policy

Schnabl, Gunther; Danne, Christian - 2005

This paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate in the Bank of Japan?s monetary policy reaction function …

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Chancen und Risiken von Co-Management am Beispiel einer japanischen Unternehmensgewerkschaft

Metzler, Manuel - 2004

Der vorliegende Beitrag nutzt empirisches Material, das im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes "Beteiligung von Belegschaftsvertretungen an Managemententscheidungen in deutschen und japanischen Unternehmen" gewonnen wurde. Das von zwei Mitarbeitern durchgeführte Projekt wird von der DFG gefördert...

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Local government finance in Japan : Can irresponsible borrowing be avoided?

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Robaschik, Frank - 2004

Rapidly rising local government debt in Japan presents a nontrivial addition to the central government debt. The …

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