Finance, Governance, and Competitiveness in Japan

Edited by Masahiko Aoki and Gary R. Saxonhouse

Japan Business and Economics Series

Finance, Governance, and Competitiveness in Japan

Edited by Masahiko Aoki and Gary R. Saxonhouse

Japan Business and Economics Series

Description

This volume brings together the research of many of the world's leading specialists on the Japanese economy to assess how Japan's distinctive economic institutions have operated in the past and how their evolution in the face of changing domestic and international circumstance s will shape the prospects for the Japanese economy in the 21st century.

Finance, Governance, and Competitiveness in Japan

Edited by Masahiko Aoki and Gary R. Saxonhouse

Japan Business and Economics Series

Introduction, Masahiko Aoki and Gary R. Saxonhouse
Chapter 1: Strategies for Overcoming Japan's Financial Crisis, Yoshio Suzuki
Part I: Corporate Governance and the Evolution of Japan's Financial System
Chapter 2: Relational Financing as an Institution and its Viability under Competition, Masahiko Aoki and Serdar Dinc
Chapter 3: The Fall of the Taisho Economic System, Juro Teranishi
Chapter 4: Main Banks, Creditor Concentration, and the Resolution of Financial Distress in Japan, Brian Hall and David Weinstein
Chapter 5: The Main Bank System and Corporate Investment: an Empirical Assessment, Fumio Hayashi
Comment on Hayashi, Takeo Hoshi
Chapter 6: Bank-owned Security Subsidies in Japan: Evidence after the 1992 Financial System Reform, Yusushi Hamao and Takeo Hoshi
Chapter 7: Credit Ratings and Spreads in the Samurai Bond Market, Franklin Packer
Chapter 8: Japan's Banking Crisis in International Perspective, Jennifer Corbett
Part II: Government, the Legal System, and the Structure and Operation of Japanese Economy
Chapter 9: Explaining the Low Litigation Rate in Japan, Koichi Hamada
Comment on Hamada, J. Mark Ramseyer
Chapter 10: Rethinking Administrative Guidance, J. Mark Ramseyer
Chapter 11: R & D Consortia, News, and Japanese High Technology PolicyDSOptoelectronics in Japan, Gary R. Saxonhouse
Chapter 12: The Sources of Industrial Leadership, Richard Nelson
Part III: Finale
Chapter 13: The Development of Studies of the Japanese Economy in the United States, Hugh Patrick