On the role of informal finance in Japan
Subtitle: its prototype, Mujin (rotating finance), and its public substitute, the postal savings system
By: Robert Dekle and Koichi Hamada
Contributors: Hamada, Kōichi, 1936-; University of Maryland at College Park. Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector Center
Series: Working paper -- no. 185; Working paper (University of Maryland at College Park. Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector Center) -- no. 185.
Publisher: Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland at College Park
Published: 1996
Place of publication: College Park, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: Financial institutions; Postal savings banks; Finance; Informal sector (Economics)
Notes: "January, 1996."

"This publication was made possible through support provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development, under Cooperative Agreement no. DHR-0015-A-00-0031-00 ..."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49).