Japan's New Economy: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

by Magnus Blomstrïm, Byron Gangnes, Sumner La Croix

Overview

This volume fills an important gap in the existing economic literature. While much has been written about Japan's pre-1990s institutions and economic performance, this text is unique in its forward-looking orientation - trying to understand not only the institutional and structural changes that have already reshaped Japan in the 1990s, but to identify the critical trends and institutional changes that will mould Japan's new economy over the next decade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199241729
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/05/2001
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Stockholm School of Economics

both at University of Hawaii at Manoa

Table of Contents

1. Historical, Structural, and Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Japanese Economic Crisis, David E. Weinstein2. Population, Labor Force, Saving, and Japan's Future, Andrew Mason and Naohiro Ogawa3. Will Japan's Current Account Turn to Deficit?, F. Gerard Adams and Byron Ganges4. Japan's Public Pension System in the Twenty-First Century, Charles Yuji Horioka5. Japanese Labor Markets: Can We Expect Significant Change?, Marcu Rebick6. Central Banking, Financial, and Regulatory Change in Japan, Thomas F. Cargill7. Japan's Big Bang and the Transformation of Financial Markets, Takatoshi Ito and Michael Melvin8. Has Japan Specialized in the Wrong Industries?, Edward N. Wolff9. The Sogo Shosha: Finding a New Role?, Orjan Sjoberg and Marie Soderberg10. Regulatory Reform in Japan: The Road Ahead, Sumner La Croix and James Mak11. FDI in the Restructuring of the Japanese Economy, Magnus Blomström, Danise Konan, and Robert E. Lipsey12. A New Millennium for Japanese-North American Economic Policy Relations?, Steven Globerman and Ari Kokko13. Japan as Number Three: Effects of European Integration, Ari Kokko, Bruce Henry Lambert, and Fredrik Sjoholm14. Economic Development in China and its Implications for Japan, Shigeyuki Abe, Chung H. Lee, and East-West Center