Economic Stagnation in Japan Exploring the Causes and Remedies of Japanization
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Edited by Dongchul Cho, Member of the Monetary Policy Board, The Bank of Korea and former Chief Economist, Korea Development Institute, Takatoshi Ito, Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and Andrew Mason, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Adjunct Senior Fellow, East-West Center, Hawaii, US<i>‘. . . this book is a valuable summary of where the discussion on Japanese deflation is, and why research on this topic needs to be taken further. The prospect of ‘Japanization’ in the rest of the world, raised by Takatoshi Ito, is one that cannot be left to regional experts.’</i>
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This book helps to provide a basis for assessing a wide range of policy approaches from which policymakers and governments can choose to avoid economic decline. The expert contributions provide an overview of the pattern of '‘Japanization'’ in a global economic perspective, analyze similarities and differences between the Korean and Japanese economies, and examine policies taken by Japan during the lost decades. From this analysis, the book proposes future policy solutions for countries experiencing ‘'Japanization'’.
Economic stagnation and the relevant policy reactions have been of keen interest around the globe since the global financial crisis and this book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, and economic commentators alike.
Contributors include: D. Cho, M. Fukao, K. Ito, T. Ito, D. Jeong, K.-C. Jung, S.T. Kim, Y.G. Kim, K. Kwon, A. Mason, J. Oh, I. Saito, J. Schiff, I. Song