Resources for the Future and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Japan) convened a one-and-one-half day … for international action. In addition, policies in both the United States and Japan reflect a strong emphasis on …

addresses the argument that Japan's low rate of unemployment results from high internal labor market flexibility. This assertion … Japan, the vast majority of them women. Thus the Japanese unemployment rate as well as unemployment volatility are … unemployment conclude that wage flexibility is comparatively high in Japan. But studies that examine the relationship between …

China- Japan inter-country input-output tables for 1985 and 1990, expressed in constant prices of 1990. The empirical … changes in China on the primary energy requirements of Japan were negligible, and (2) the contribution of the Japanese final … shifts on the primary energy requirements of Japan. The Japanese policy makers should concentrate on the energy impacts of …

-commerce in different sectors in Japan indicates that there is a possibility of price reduction between 1.39 percent in the …

Japan faces significant challenges in encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship. Attempts to formally model past …, Japan’s industrial firms are competitive relative to their foreign counterparts. Japan falls behind in the heavily regulated … service sector. The problems are due less to a lack of industrial policy than to an excess of regulation. Japan may have more …

After the recent IT bubble, Germany alone among OECD countries is beginning to share Japan's political-economic profile … politically passive households. Germany has been spared Japan's fate of persistent stagnation so far because of its long … the country into a full-fledged Japan syndrome. …

to significant gains for the Canadian and American agri-food industries. Japan, South Korea and Mexico are the main …

improved long-term performance and lower underpricing at the time of the IPOs. In Japan, we find the long-run performance of … independent venture capitalists. Many of the major venture capital firms in Japan are subsidiaries of securities firms that may …-term performance, of initial public offerings in Japan. …