Government Policy towards Industry in the United States and Japan
Government Policy towards Industry in the United States and Japan
The essays contained in this volume represent state-of-the-art thinking on many important issues relating to government policies in the Japanese and American economies.
Reviews & endorsements
"a useful addition to a growing literature on U.S. and Japanese `industrial' policies." Journal of Economic Literature
Product details
June 2006Paperback
9780521026437
368 pages
227 × 151 × 22 mm
0.563kg
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Editor's summary John B. Shoven
- 2. The corporate cost of capital in Japan and the United States: a comparison Albert Ando and Alan Auerbach
- 3. The taxation of income from capital in Japan John B. Shoven and Toshiaki Tachibanaki
- 4. Corporate tax burden and tax incentives in Japan Hiromitsu Ishi
- 5. A closer look at saving rates in the United States and Japan Michael J. Boskin and John M. Roberts
- 6. The Japanese current-account surplus and fiscal policy in Japan and the United States Kazuo Ueda
- 7. Curing trade imbalance by international tax coordination Iwao Nakatani
- 8. Picking losers: public policy toward declining industries in Japan Merton J. Peck, Richard C. Levin and Akira Goto
- 9. Corporate capital structure in the United States and Japan: financial intermediation and implications of financial deregulation James E. Hodder
- 10. The Japanese bureaucracy in economic administration: a rational regulator or pluralist agent? Masahiko Aoki
- 11. Japan's energy policy during the 1970s Chikashi Moriguchi
- 12. Industry structure and government policies in the US and Japanese integrated-circuit industries W. Edward Steinmueller.
