Japan has the most rapidly aging population in the world. This affects growth and fiscal sustainability, but the …

This paper explores how corporate income tax reform can help Japan increase investment and boost potential growth …. Using international and Japan-specific empirical estimates of corporate tax elasticities, investment is predicted to expand …

Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to … participating in the workforce in Japan. First, few working women start out in career-track positions, and second, many women drop … out of the workforce following childbirth. To increase women’s attachment to work Japan should consider policies to …

the region. Stronger domestic growth in Japan could mitigate the pace, but is unlikely to reverse the expansion as global …

This paper examines how Japan’s long-term interest rates and Japanese banks’ interest rate risk exposures may evolve … yields in Japan are determined to a large extent by growth and inflation outlook, fiscal conditions, demography, and the … increased purchases by the Bank of Japan. At the same time, illustrative scenarios suggest the interest rate risk exposure of …

and human development, as pioneered by Japan, South Korea, and China. In a democratic system, which India has great reason …

: comparison with Japan, comparison with the New Economic Policy (NEP), and assuming alternative post-1940 growth scenarios. …

period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital …