Japanese Firms During the Lost Two Decades The Recovery of Zombie Firms and Entrenchment of Reputable Firms /

Why has Japan's lost decade become the lost two decades? This book attempts to provide a novel perspective on causes of stagnant productivity growth of the Japanese corporate sector during the lost two decades. Exploiting the corporate financial dataset compiled by the Development Bank of Japan...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Nakamura, Jun-ichi (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Σειρά:SpringerBriefs in Economics,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1  Introduction
  • 1.1  The Lost Two Decades of the Japanese Economy: Still a Puzzle
  • 1.2  Zombie Firm Hypothesis and Its Limitations
  • 1.3  Purpose and Outline of the Book
  • References
  • 2  Evolution and Recovery of Zombie Firms: Japan’s Experience
  • 2.1 Background on the Controversy Over Evergreen Lending and Secular Stagnation
  • 2.2  Identification of Zombie Firms
  • 2.3  Evolution and Recovery of Zombie Firms by Three Categories of Financial Support
  • 2.4  Empirical Framework to Analyze How Zombie Firms Recovered
  • 2.5  Descriptive Statistics
  • 2.6 Estimation Results for the Entire Sample Period
  • 2.7  Estimation for the Sub-periods
  • 2.8  Estimation of the Sub-periods by Industry
  • 2.9  Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • 3  Sluggish Reallocation of Productive Resources after the Recovery of Zombie Firms
  • 3.1  Framework of the Decomposition Analyses of Changes in Aggregated ROA
  • 3.2  Result of the Decomposition Analyses of Changes in Aggregated ROA
  • 3.3  Weak Demand of Productive Resources from Healthy Firms
  • 3.4  Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • 4  Investment Behavior of Reputable Firms after the Recovery of Zombie Firms: “Conservatism” and the “Pseudo Financial Constraint Effect”
  • 4.1  Introduction
  • 4.2  Literature Review
  • 4.3  Methodology
  • 4.4  Explanatory Variables
  • 4.5  Descriptive Statistics
  • 4.6  Estimation Results and Interpretation
  • 4.7  Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • 5  Final Remarks
  • 5.1  Main Findings of the Book: Unified View for the Lost Two Decades of Japan
  • 5.2  Policy Implications and Remaining Issues
  • References.