A National Bureau of Economic Research project report
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
How open is Japan? / Robert Z. Lawrence. Comment / Gary R. Saxonhouse. Comment / Marcus Noland -- Market structure, comparative advantage, and Japanese trade under the strong yen / Peter A. Petri. Comment / Daniel A. Citrin -- Changing Japanese trade patterns and the East Asian NICs / Yung Chul Park and Won-Am Park. Comment / Alice H. Amsden -- Price behavior in Japanese and U.S. manufacturing / Richard C. Marston. Comment / Catherine L. Mann. Comment / Bonnie E. Loopesko -- Is the Japanese distribution system really inefficient? / Takatoshi Ito and Masayoshi Maruyama -- The Japanese distribution system and access to the Japanese market / Motoshige Itoh. Comment / David Flath.
The Japanese financial system and the cost of capital / David M. Meerschwam. Comment / Koichi Hamada. Comment / Robert Alan Feldman -- Japanese finance in the 1980s : a survey / Jeffrey A. Frankel. Comment / Robert Dekle -- Industrial policy in Japan : a political economy view / Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara. Comment / Laura D'Andrea Tyson. Comment / Edward M. Graham -- U.S.-Japan trade negotiations : paradigms lost / Amelia Porges.