Readings on the Japanese Economy
2005/12/26
Ryoichi Imai
Books
Blomstrom, Corbet, Hayashi, and Kashyap (ed.) (2003) Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan, University of Chicago Press.
Flath, David (2005), The Japanese Economy, Oxford University Press.
Hoshi, Takeo, and Anil Kashyap (2001) Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan, Cambridge MA: MIT Press
Ito, Talatoshi (1992), The Japanese Economy, MIT Press
Ito, Talatoshi, Hugh Patrick, and David E. Weinstin (ed.) (2005) Reviving Japan's Economy, MIT Press
Krugman, Paul (1999), The Return of Depression Economics, Norton
Morishima, Michio (2000), in Japan at a Deadlock, Macmillan UK.
Porter, Takeuchi, and Sakakibara (2000), Can Japan Compete?, Perseus Books Group.
Rebick, Marcus (2005), The Japanese Employment System: Adapting to a Economic Environment, Oxford University Press.
Yoshikawa, Hiroshi (2001), Japan's Lost Decade, International House of Japan.
Articles
Some articles are available on-line at Kyu-dai Library: http://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/e-resources/
Gordon, Robert J. [2000], Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?, Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, 49-74.
Hayashi, Fumio and Edward C. Prescott [2002], The 1990s in Japan: A Lost Decade, Review of Economic Dynamics, 206-235.
Ishida, Hiroshi (2001), Industrialization, Class Structure, and Social Mobility in Postwar Japan
Iwamoto, Yasushi (2002), The Fiscal Investment and Loan Program in Transition, Journal of the Japan and International Economics 16, 583-604.
Prescott, Edward C. [2002], Prosperity and Depression, American Economic Review, 92(2), 1-15.
Backgrounds and Applications
Auerbach, Alan, and Maurice Obstfeld [2004], Monetary and Fiscal Remedies for Deflation, American Economic Review, 94(2), 71-75.
Auerbach Alan, and Maurice Obstfeld [2005], The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a Liquidity Trap, American Economic Review 95(1), 110-137.
Blanchard, Olivier, and Stanley Fisher [1989], Lectures on Macroeconomics, MIT Press.
Mankiw, Macroeconomics, 4th ed.
Morris, Stephen, and Hyun Song Shin [2000], Rethinking Multiple Equilibria in Macroeconomic Modeling, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000.
Obstfeld, Maurice, and Kenneth Rogoff [1996], The Foundations of International Macroeconomics, MIT Press
Stockman, Alan [1981], Anticipated Inflation and the Capital Stock in a Cash-In-Advance Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics 8, 387-393.
Varian, Hal [2004], The Economics of Information Technology, Cambridge University Press.
Web
Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance Japan
Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry
Bank of Japan
Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research