Japan and the World Economy

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2006, volume 18, articles 4

Introduction to aspects of Japan's prolonged slump special issue pp. 357-357

Fumio Hayashi

Do borrowing constraints matter? An analysis of why the permanent income hypothesis does not apply in Japan pp. 358-377

Miki Kohara and Charles Horioka

The causes of Japan's `lost decade': The role of household consumption pp. 378-400

Charles Horioka

The impact of technology shocks on the Japanese business cycle--An empirical analysis based on Japanese industry data pp. 401-417

Tsutomu Miyagawa, Yukie Sakuragawa and Miho Takizawa

Business cycle accounting for the Japanese economy pp. 418-440

Keiichiro Kobayashi and Masaru Inaba

A comparison of the Japanese and U.S. business cycles pp. 441-463

R. Anton Braun, Julen Esteban-Pretel, Toshihiro Okada and Nao Sudou

Why has income inequality in Thailand increased?: An analysis using surveys from 1975 to 1998 pp. 464-487

Taizo Motonishi

Resource rivalry and endogenous lobby pp. 488-511

Jue-Shyan Wang, Hui-wen Koo and Tain-Jy Chen

Spatial determinants of Japanese FDI in China pp. 512-527

John F. Cassidy and Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan

Short selling and stock prices with regime switching in the absence of market makers: The case of Japan pp. 528-544

Kwangsoo Ko and Taejin Lim

Structural and cyclical movements of the current account in Japan: An alternative measure pp. 545-567

Yoichi Matsubayashi

Macroeconomic factors and the empirical content of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory in the Japanese stock market pp. 568-591

A.A. Azeez and Yasuhiro Yonezawa

The pros and cons of globalization pp. 592-594

Paul Samuelson

2006, volume 18, articles 3

The importance of nontradable goods' prices in cyclical real exchange rate fluctuations pp. 247-253

Ariel Burstein, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

Comment on "How important are nontradable goods prices as sources of cyclical fluctuations in real exchange rates?" by Ariel Burstein, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo pp. 254-260

Pierpaolo Benigno

Uncertainty, policy ineffectiveness, and long stagnation of the macroeconomy pp. 261-272

Masanao Aoki and Hiroshi Yoshikawa

Uncertainty, policy ineffectiveness and long stagnation of the macroeconomy pp. 273-277

Laura Veldkamp

Crowding out and the rate of return on capital in Japan pp. 278-297

Levon Barseghyan

Comment on "Crowding out and the rate of return on capital in Japan" by Levon Barseghyan pp. 298-301

Fumio Hayashi

How costly are restrictions on size? pp. 302-320

Nezih Guner, Gustavo Ventura and Xu Yi

Comments on the paper by Guner, Ventura and Yi pp. 321-323

Kenn Ariga

Ambiguity in American monetary and fiscal policy pp. 324-330

Thomas Sargent

Complete work-up of the one-sector scalar-capital theory of interest rate: Third installment auditing Sraffa's never-completed "Critique of Modern Economic Theory" pp. 331-356

Paul Samuelson and Erkko Etula

2006, volume 18, articles 2

Portfolio optimization under asset pricing anomalies pp. 121-142

Pin-Huang Chou, Wen-Shen Li and Guofu Zhou

Financial integration and consumption risk sharing in East Asia pp. 143-157

Soyoung Kim, Sunghyun Kim and Yunjong Wang

Evaluating corporate performance: empirical tests of a conservation law pp. 158-168

Ryuzo Sato and Mariko Fujii

On the comparison of tariffs and quotas in oligopolistic intermediate goods markets pp. 169-180

Masayuki Okawa

Global technological races pp. 181-193

Hans-Werner Gottinger

Do excessive wage increases raise imports?: Theory and evidence pp. 194-220

Jim Malley and Thomas Moutos

Investment in transport and communication technology in a Cournot duopoly with trade pp. 221-229

Luca Lambertini and Gianpaolo Rossini

The deregulation of Japan's electricity industry pp. 230-246

Nobuhiro Hosoe

2006, volume 18, articles 1

Editorial pp. 1-1

Robert Dekle and Yasushi Hamao

Changes in Japanese household consumption and saving behavior before, during and after the Bubble era: empirical analysis using NSFIE micro-data sets pp. 2-21

Atsushi Maki

The index of agency cost and the financial accelerator: the case of Japan pp. 22-48

Hirokuni Uchiyama

Collateral value, firm borrowing, and forbearance lending: an empirical study of Taiwan pp. 49-71

Nan-Kuang Chen, Hsiao-Lei Chu, Jin-Tan Liu and Kuang-Hsien Wang

Does inflation cause poor long-term growth performance? pp. 72-89

Federico Guerrero

Current account: mean-reverting or random walk behavior? pp. 90-107

Evan Lau, Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah and Tze-Haw Chan

Information arrival, interest rate differentials, and yen/dollar exchange rate pp. 108-119

Yoshihiro Kitamura and Hiroya Akiba

2005, volume 17, articles 4

Does the Creative Business Promotion Law enhance SMEs' capital investments? Evidence from a panel dataset of unlisted SMEs in Japan pp. 395-406

Nobuyuki Harada and Yuji Honjo

Divergence or convergence?: Income inequality between cities, towns and villages in Japan pp. 407-416

Kazuhiko Kakamu and Mototsugu Fukushige

Human resource management, corporate governance structure and corporate performance in Korea: a comparative analysis of Japan, US and Korea pp. 417-430

Joonmo Cho

Overreaction effects independent of risk and characteristics: evidence from the Japanese stock market pp. 431-455

Chaoshin Chiao and C. Hueng

Is there a yen optimum currency area? Evidence from 18 Asian and Pacific economies pp. 456-469

Georgios Karras

Optimal inflation target under uncertainty pp. 470-479

Hirofumi Uchida and Hiroshi Fujiki

A search for leading sectors over the business cycle: The case of Korea pp. 480-495

Joon-Mo Yang and Tae-Wan Kim

Reexamining the effect of packet pricing in the wireless internet pp. 496-509

Jeong-Yoo Kim, Nae-Chan Lee and Dong-Ju Kim

2005, volume 17, articles 3

Services content of Japanese trade pp. 261-292

Kozo Kiyota

The relationship between saving and investment for Japan pp. 293-309

Paresh Narayan

The term structure of interest rates in Japan: the predictability of economic activity pp. 311-326

Hiroshi Nakaota

On the inflation-uncertainty hypothesis in the USA, Japan and the UK: a dual long memory approach pp. 327-343

Christian Conrad and Menelaos Karanasos

Firm investment, monetary transmission and balance-sheet problems in Japan: an investigation using micro data pp. 345-369

Takashi Nagahata and Toshitaka Sekine

Executive pay in Japan: the role of bank-appointed monitors and the Main Bank relationship pp. 371-394

Naohito Abe, Noel Gaston and Katsuyuki Kubo

2005, volume 17, articles 2

Industrial groupings and strategic FDI pp. 125-150

Bruce Blonigen, Christopher J. Ellis and Dietrich Fausten

Debt disorganization in Japan pp. 151-169

Keiichiro Kobayashi and Masaru Inaba

Regional monetary integration in the presence of two large countries: What modality makes sense for East Asia? pp. 171-187

Tae-Joon Kim, Jai-Won Ryou and Shinji Takagi

Monetary policy of the Bank of Japan--inflation target versus exchange rate target pp. 189-208

Joaquim Andrade and Jose Angelo Divino

Lifetime employment as a coordination failure pp. 209-222

Junichiro Ishida

Are US current account deficits unsustainable?: Testing for the private and government intertemporal budget constraints pp. 223-237

Yoichi Matsubayashi

Structural changes and unit roots in Japan's macroeconomic time series: is real business cycle theory supported? pp. 239-259

Naotsugu Hayashi

2005, volume 17, articles 1

Quality change and productivity improvement in the Japanese economy pp. 1-23

Derek Bosworth, Silvia Massini and Masako Nakayama

Estimating a matching function and regional matching efficiencies: Japanese panel data for 1973-1999 pp. 25-41

Shigeki Kano and Makoto Ohta

Re-examination of J-curve effect for Japan, Korea and Taiwan pp. 43-58

Han-Min Hsing

The effects of product liability costs on R&D with asymmetric information pp. 59-81

Sumiko Takaoka

Yen bloc or koala bloc? Currency relationships after the East Asian crisis pp. 83-96

Tanya Bowman

Long memory volatility dependency, temporal aggregation and the Korean currency crisis: the role of a high frequency Korean won (KRW)-US dollar ($) exchange rate pp. 97-109

Young Wook Han

Export supply of New Zealand's live rock lobster to Japan: an empirical analysis pp. 111-123

Shekar Bose and Arna Galvan