Japan's lost decade

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Glavni autor: Yoshikawa, Hiroshi (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
jpn
Impresum: Tokyo : I-House Press, 2008.
Izdanje: Rev. and expanded ed
Nakladnička cjelina: LTCB international library selection ; no. 11
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  • Macroeconomic analysis of the 1990s. High growth in the past
  • The 1990s
  • Demand or supply?
  • What type of demand?
  • The "abnormality" of demand fluctuations
  • Investment
  • Investment to increase production capacity, and stock adjustment
  • The recovery of 1995-1996
  • The fiscal policy error of 1997
  • The prolonged consumption slump
  • Bad debts and the Japanese economy. Money supply and the credit crunch
  • The bubble and bad debts: banks
  • The bubble and bad debts: firms
  • The background to the real estate boom
  • Monetary policy and prudential policy
  • The credit crunch of 1997-1998
  • Exchange rates. The fixed exchange rate system and the floating exchange rate system
  • The determination of foreign exchange rates: short-run, mid-run, and long-run
  • Purchasing power parity
  • The pre-war Japanese economy
  • The appreciation of the yen over the past 25 years
  • Theories blaming the high yen for Japan's economic doldrums
  • Japan's manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries. Small and medium firms, and the self-employed
  • An historical turning-point
  • The agriculture
  • Structural stagnation
  • The labor market in the "ice age." Japan's rising unemployment rate
  • The mismatch in labor market
  • Labor mobility
  • Underemployment
  • The risk of falling into a deflationary spiral
  • The aging of society and fiscal policy. Ill-advised fiscal reconstruction
  • The alleged burden of debt
  • The national burden ratio
  • The social security
  • Structural reform
  • The future. Has Japan's potential growth rate actually declined?
  • Demand and economic growth
  • Japan's lost decade: what have we learned and where are we heading? The Japanese economy of the 1990s
  • What must be done?
  • The Japanese economy during the 1990s
  • Macroeconomics policies
  • Fiscal policy
  • Monetary policy
  • Japan's potential growth: The importance of demand-creating innovation.