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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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September 11, 2019
International Economic Policy
Are Asian Insurers the New European Banks?
It is hard to understand the global flow of funds without understanding the risks now being taken by Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean life insurers.
December 13, 2017
Japan
Japanese Monetary Policy Is Working, But the BoJ Can’t Tell You Why
In September 2016, the Bank of Japan adopted a new strategy to boost the flagging Japanese economy: “yield curve control,” or YCC. The aim was to widen the gap between long- and short-term intere…
July 11, 2016
Japan
Voters Give Abe an Opening for Constitutional Debate
This blog post is part of a series entitled Will Japanese Change Their Constitution?, in which leading experts discuss the prospects for revising Japan’s postwar constitution. As elections go, ye…
July 7, 2016
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Meanwhile, in Japan, Household Consumption Continues to Fall
In news that you may have missed while strategizing about Article 50, thinking about ways to recapitalize Italian banks or pondering the future course of the renminbi ... Japan’s May household consu…
