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Japan´s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change
Jennifer Amyx
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Description for Japan´s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change
Paperback. Focuses on the role of policy networks in Japanese finance, showing how Japan's Finance Ministry was embedded within the political and financial worlds, and how the nature of Japan's institutional arrangements affected the capacity of the government to manage change. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 line illus. 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPQB; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
At the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation's banks with an enormous burden of nonperforming loans. Banking crises have become increasingly common across the globe, but what was distinctive about the Japanese case was the unusually long delay before the government intervened to aggressively address the bad debt problem. The postponed response by Japanese authorities to the nation's banking crisis has had enormous political and economic consequences for Japan as well as for the rest of the world. This book helps us understand the nature of the Japanese government's response while ... Read more
At the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation's banks with an enormous burden of nonperforming loans. Banking crises have become increasingly common across the globe, but what was distinctive about the Japanese case was the unusually long delay before the government intervened to aggressively address the bad debt problem. The postponed response by Japanese authorities to the nation's banking crisis has had enormous political and economic consequences for Japan as well as for the rest of the world. This book helps us understand the nature of the Japanese government's response while ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691128689
SKU
V9780691128689
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About Jennifer Amyx
Jennifer Amyx is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Japan´s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change
Winner of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award, Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation "This is a fine book, one of the best I have read on Japan's political economy in years... Amyx combines well an insightful overall analytical framework with a range and depth of rich supporting detail. This book is essential for anyone interested in Japan's financial system, political economy, or ... Read more