Japan project meets.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER together with the Center on the Japanese Economy and Business, The Center for Advanced Research in Finance, and the Australia-Japan Research Centre held a project meeting on the Japanese economy in Tokyo on June 25 and 26, 2010. The organizers were: Jennifer Corbett, Australia-Japan Research Centre; Charles Horioka, NBER and Osaka University; Anil K Kashyap, NBER and the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; and David Weinstein, NBER and Columbia University. The following papers were discussed:

* Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and David Weinstein, "Exports and Financial Shocks"

* Kazuo Ogawa, Osaka University; Elmer Sterken, University of Groningen; and Ichiro Tokutsu, Kobe University, "Financial Distress and Industry Structure: An Inter-Industry Approach to the 'Lost Decade' in Japan"

* Jennifer Corbett and Kazuki Onji, Australian National University, and David Vera, Kent State University, "Capital Injection, Restructuring Targets, and Personnel Management: The Case of Japanese Regional Banks"

* Yasushi Hamao and Pedro Matos, University of Southern...