Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan

by Ulrike Schaede

Overview

The Japanese government is becoming less involved in shaping industrial policy—but what does this imply for the openness of Japanese markets to foreign competition? In an extensive study of 'post-development' Japan, Ulrike Schaede argues that, contrary to what many have suggested, the reduced role of government regulation may not result in more open markets. Instead, as has happened throughout Japanese history, deregulation and the recession of the 1990s have once again led Japanese trade associations to assume important regulatory functions of their own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198297185
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/14/2000
Series:	Japan Business and Economics Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	9.51(w) x 6.42(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

University of California, San Diego

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Japanese Trade Associations3. Antitrust Policy and Industrial Policy in the Postwar Period4. Self-Regulation and the Antimonopoly Law5. The Evidence: Antitrust Enforcement and Self-Regulation in Postwar Japan6. Data Analysis: Trade Associations and Self-Regulation7. The Historical Development of Self-Regulation in Japan's Trade Associations8. The Implications