Public Policies and the Japanese Economy
Subtitle: Savings, Investments, Unemployment, Inequality (Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780312164300
Subjects: Public Finance; Economic Policy; Monetary Policy; Business & Economics; Capital market; Japan; Labor market; Taxation; Business/Economics
Description: The purpose of this book is to examine the relationship between public policies and the economy in Japan in many fields. Public policies include tax policy, regulation, macroeconomic policy and labour policy. The book aims to find which public policies were effective for achieving the relatively better macroeconomic performance in the Japanese economy, and which were not.

Savings, portfolio choice, housing, investment, cost of capital, taxes, unemployment, wages and inequality are covered, with particular emphasis on the evaluation of the two factor markets - namely, the capital and labour markets - in Japan. Special attention is paid to the examination of the effect of public policies on efficiency and equity, normally interacting in a trade-off relationship.