Japan’s Lost Decade Lessons for Asian Economies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yoshino, Naoyuki (Editor), Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: ADB Institute Series on Development Economics,
• Subjects: Macroeconomics.; Population.; Economic growth.; Economics.; Economic Growth.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Population Economics.

This book discusses Japan’s long-term economic recession and provides remedies for that recession that are useful for other Asian economies. The book addresses why Japan’s economy has stagnated since the bursting of its economic bubble in the 1990s. Its empirical analysis challenges the beliefs of s...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Japan’s Lost Decade: Causes and Remedies (Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary)
• 2 Changes in Economic Effect of Infrastructure and Financing Methods: The Japanese Case (Masaki Nakahigashi and Naoyuki Yoshino)
• 3 Optimal Fiscal Policy Rule for Achieving Fiscal Sustainability: A Japanese Case Study (Naoyuki Yoshino, Tetsuro Mizoguchi, and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary)
• 4 Macroeconomic Volatility under High Accumulation of Government Debt: Lessons from Japan (Paul D. McNelis and Naoyuki Yoshino)
• 5 Japan’s Postwar Monetary Policies: Taylor Rules or Something Else? (James R. Rhodes and Naoyuki Yoshino)
• 6 Oil Price Fluctuations and Oil Consuming Sectors: An Empirical Analysis of Japan (Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino, and Ehsan Rasolinezhad)
• 7 Three Arrows of “Abenomics” and the Structural Reform of Japan (Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary)
• 8 The Effectiveness of Japan’s Negative Interest Rate Policy (Naoyuki Yoshino, Farhad Taghizadeh–Hesary, and Hiroaki Miyamoto). Index.