Japan and the World Economy

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): Robert Dekle and Yasushi Hamao

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The effects of regional trade agreements on FDI by its origin and type: Evidence from U.S. multinational enterprises activities pp. 1-11: Hyejoon Im
Multi-plant operation and headquarters separation: Evidence from Japanese plant-level panel data pp. 12-22: Toshihiro Okubo and Eiichi Tomiura
Magnitudes of Market Inefficiency: Theory and Application pp. 23-36: Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi, Yoshihiko Tsukuda and Junji Shimada
From global factory to global mall? East Asia’s changing trade composition and orientation pp. 37-47: Matthias Helble and Boon-Loong Ngiang
A test of the linkage among money supply, liquidity and share prices in Asia pp. 48-61: Tinfah Chung and Mohamed Ariff
Exchange rate regimes and real exchange rate volatility: Does inflation targeting help or hurt? pp. 62-72: Alice Y. Ouyang, Ramkishen Rajan and Jie Li

What types of companies have female directors? Evidence from Japan pp. 1-7: Masayuki Morikawa
Social welfare and cross-ownership in a vertical industry: When the mode of competition matters for antitrust policy pp. 8-16: Luciano Fanti
The impact of regional investment liberalization on foreign direct investment: A firm-level simulation assessment pp. 17-26: Kiyoyasu Tanaka and Shawn Arita
The effects of foreign ownership on competition in the banking industry: The key role of financial reforms pp. 27-46: Chien-Chiang Lee, Meng-Fen Hsieh and Shih-Jui Yang
External adjustment and trading partners’ exchange rate regimes pp. 47-54: Jiyoun An and Bokyeong Park
Free trade agreements and privatization policy with an excess burden of taxation pp. 55-64: Lili Xu, Sang-Ho Lee and Leonard F.S. Wang
Offshoring, wages, and heterogeneity pp. 65-72: Sung-min Kim and Jin-tae Hwang
The skill premium and economic growth with costly investment, complementarities and international trade of intermediate goods pp. 73-86: Oscar Afonso, Pedro Cunha Neves and Maria Thompson

Which education policies can prevent the collapse of the middle-income group? pp. 1-10: Hideki Nakamura
Optimal monetary policy in an economy with vertical production and trade: An analysis based on the perspective of local currency pricing pp. 11-20: Kohjiro Dohwa
A random walk stochastic volatility model for income inequality pp. 21-28: Haruhisa Nishino and Kazuhiko Kakamu
Safeguards and voluntary export restraints under the World Trade Organization pp. 29-41: Koichi Kagitani and Kozo Harimaya
Asian Currency Unit (ACU), deviation indicators and exchange rate coordination in East Asia: A panel-based convergence approach pp. 42-55: Victor Pontines and Kefei You
Subsidies for influenza vaccination, vaccination rates, and health outcomes among the elderly in Japan pp. 56-66: Yoko Ibuka and Shun-ichiro Bessho
Examining industrial interdependence between Japan and South Korea: A FAVAR approach pp. 67-87: David Selover and Takeshi Yagihashi
Why are entrepreneurship levels so low in Japan? pp. 88-101: Yuji Honjo
The network structure and systemic risk in the Japanese interbank market pp. 102-112: Masayasu Kanno
Spatial persistence of Japanese unemployment rates pp. 113-122: Keisuke Kondo
Financial shocks, bankruptcy, and natural selection pp. 123-135: Hirofumi Uchida, Daisuke Miyakawa, Kaoru Hosono, Arito Ono, Taisuke Uchino and Iichiro Uesugi

Intergenerational redistribution policies of the 1990s and 2000s in Japan: An analysis using generational accounting pp. 1-16: Naomi Miyazato
Gold bubbles: When are they most likely to occur? pp. 17-23: Yanping Zhao, Hsu-Ling Chang, Chi-Wei Su and Rui Nian
The impact of the media on voters’ attitude toward Junichiro Koizumi and his policy pp. 24-32: Eiji Yamamura and Fabio Sabatini
R&D specialization and manufacturing productivity growth: A cross-country study pp. 33-43: Jong-Rong Chen, Yun-Peng Chu, Yi-Pey Ou and Chih-Hai Yang
Determinants of long-term yields: A panel data analysis of major countries pp. 44-55: Hibiki Ichiue and Yuhei Shimizu

Technology diffusion and host–country productivity in South-South FDI flows pp. 1-10: Hyuk-Hwang Kim, Hongshik Lee and Joonhyung Lee
Fixed investment, liquidity constraint, and monetary policy: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing firm panel data pp. 11-19: Koichi Masuda
The nonlinear relationships between stock indexes and exchange rates pp. 20-27: Liang-Chun Ho and Chia-Hsing Huang
Preferential trade agreements between asymmetric countries: Free trade areas (with rules of origin) vs. customs unions pp. 28-43: Yang-Ming Chang and Renfeng Xiao

Market liquidity, private information, and the cost of capital: Market microstructure studies on family firms in Japan pp. 1-13: Takashi Ebihara, Keiichi Kubota, Hitoshi Takehara and Eri Yokota
Investments in response to trade policy: The case of Japanese firms during voluntary export restraints pp. 14-36: Hyo-Youn Chu
The effects of demographic changes on the real interest rate in Japan pp. 37-48: Daisuke Ikeda and Masashi Saito
The economic consequences of the TARP: The effectiveness of bank recapitalization policies in the U.S pp. 49-64: Heather Montgomery and Yuki Takahashi
Growth slowdowns redux pp. 65-84: Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park and Kwanho Shin
Aggregate net flows, inflows, and outflows of equity funds: The U.S. versus Japan pp. 85-95: Miyoun Paek and Kwangsoo Ko
Industry co-movement and cross-listing: Do home country factors matter? pp. 96-110: Chien-Chiang Lee, Mei-Ping Chen and Chi-Hung Chang

Financing investment in East Asia: Regional or global savings? pp. 1-7: Soyoung Kim, Sunghyun Kim and Yoonseok Choi
The new goods margin in Japanese–Chinese trade pp. 8-13: John Dalton
What causes changes in the effects of fiscal policy? A case study of Japan pp. 14-31: Keigo Kameda
Institutional designs to alleviate liquidity shortages in a two-country model pp. 32-46: Hiroshi Fujiki
The dynamic contagion of the global financial crisis into Japanese markets pp. 47-53: Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi, Toyoharu Takahashi, Junji Shimada and Yoshihiko Tsukuda
The efficiency consequence of a political compromise in the Japanese tax reform of 1989 pp. 54-64: Kazuki Onji

Prepayment behaviors of Japanese residential mortgages pp. 1-9: Naoki Kishimoto and Yong-Jin Kim
Estimating time-varying currency betas with contagion: New evidence from developed and emerging financial markets pp. 10-24: Ling Long, Albert Tsui and Zhaoyong Zhang
Total factor productivity of Korean manufacturing industries: Comparison of competing models with firm-level data pp. 25-36: Donghyun Oh, Almas Heshmati and Hans Lööf
Bank deposit interest rate pass-through and geographical segmentation in Japanese banking markets pp. 37-51: Taisuke Uchino
The link between unemployment and labor force participation rates in Japan: A regional perspective pp. 52-58: De-Chih Liu
External shocks and Japanese business cycles: Evidence from a sign-restricted VAR model pp. 59-74: Hiroshi Morita
Vehicle currency pricing and its positive welfare consequences under optimal monetary policy pp. 75-85: Masanori Kashiwagi