Organization, Performance and Equity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Organizations

   1. Entry Regulations, Tax Distortions and the Bipolarized Market: The Japanese Retail Sector

      • Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Towa Tachibana

      Pages 1-57

   2. Demand Uncertainty and Distribution Systems: Information Acquisition and Transmission

      • Yasuhiro Sakai, Keisuke Sasaki

      Pages 59-91

   3. Oligopolistic Competition and Economic Welfare The Effects of Ownership Structures

      • Kotaro Suzumura

      Pages 93-107

   4. Stackelberg Equilibrium with Private Information

      • Shunichi Tsutsui

      Pages 109-124

3. Income Distribution

   1. Intergenerational Altruism and Income Transfers: Indeterminacy of Equilibria and Its Resolution

      • Hajime Hori

      Pages 125-156

   2. Optimal Intergenerational Transfers in an Endogenous Growth Model with Bequests

      • Toshihiro Ihori

      Pages 157-176

   3. Equity in the Income Tax Rate Structure: Measurement on the Income Elasticity of Marginal Utility and Its Application

      • M. Murakami, S. Asano, K. Shimono

      Pages 177-213

4. Technological Progress

   1. Externalities and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing

      • Tetsushi Honda

      Pages 215-244

   2. Technological Spillovers and Capital Mobility in a Two-Country Model of Economic Growth

      • Kazuo Mino

      Pages 245-277

   3. Three Applications of Lie Groups

      • Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran

      Pages 279-303

5. Macro Performances

   1. The Japanese Yen as an International Currency: Performance and Prospects

      • M. Kawai

      Pages 305-355

   2. Consumption Function in the Short, Medium and Long Runs: The Japanese and U.S. Cases

      • M. Ohyama, A. Maki

      Pages 357-375

   3. Monetary Shock Does Not Matter in Japan: A Kalman Filter Approach to Real Business Cycle Theory

      • Y. Ohkusa

      Pages 377-401

   4. International Welfare Effects of Saving Controls and Trade Restrictions

      • Yoshiyasu Ono, Shinsuke Ikeda

      Pages 403-440

6. Back Matter

   Pages 441-450

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Organization, Performance and Equity: Perspectives on the Japanese Economy provides an analysis of key components of the Japanese economy and business structures, edited by two leading American-based Japan scholars. The contributions to this book are grouped into four major categories: organizations; income distributions; technological progress; and macro performance.
The first section examines the retail sector, the role of information in evaluating distribution systems, and ownership structures and their effect on welfare, all in the context of the Japanese economy. The second section concerns issues of Japanese tax structures, growth, and income transfers, while the third section focuses on technology and productivity. The concluding section addresses major macro issues like trade and the value of the yen.

• Japan
• competition
• economic growth
• growth
• income distribution
• regulation

• The Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economics, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, USA

  Ryuzo Sato, Rama Ramachandran

• Faculty of Economics, Tohoku University, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi 980, Japan

  Hajime Hori

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