Organization, Performance and Equity Perspectives on the Japanese Economy

Organization, Performance and Equity: Perspectives on the Japanese Economy provides an analysis of key components of the Japanese economy and business structures, edited by two leading American-based Japan scholars. The contributions to this book are grouped into four major categories: organizations...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sato, Ryuzo (Editor), Ramachandran, Rama V. (Editor), Hori, Hajime (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Research Monographs in Japan-U.S. Business and Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I: Organizations
  • 1 Entry Regulations, Tax Distortions and the Bipolarized Market: The Japanese Retail Sector
  • 2 Demand Uncertainty and Distribution Systems: Information Acquisition and Transmission
  • 3 Oligopolistic Competition and Economic Welfare: The Effects of Ownership Structures
  • 4 Stackelberg Equilibrium with Private Information
  • II. Income Distribution
  • 5 Intergenerational Altruism and Income Transfers: Indeterminacy of Equilibria and its Resolution
  • 6 Optimal Intergenerational Transfers in an Endogenous Growth Model with Bequests
  • 7 Equity in the Income Tax Rate Structure: Measurement on the Income Elasticity of Marginal Utility and its Application
  • III. Technological Progress
  • 8 Externalities and Productivity Growth: Evidence From Japanese Manufacturing
  • 9 Technological Spillovers and Capital Mobility in a Two-Country Model of Economic Growth
  • 10 Three Applications of Lie Groups
  • IV. Macro Performances
  • 11 The Japanese Yen as an International Currency: Performance and Prospects
  • 12 Consumption Function in the Short, Medium, and Long Runs: The Japanese and U.S. Cases
  • 13 Monetary Shock does not Matter in Japan: A Kalman Filter Approach to Real Business Cycle Theory
  • 14 International Welfare Effects of Saving Controls and Trade Restrictions