The lost decade : explaining Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s.

The Lost Decade of Japan has been an enduring and confounding economic puzzle. Defying Monetarist and Keynesian expansionary measures, the economy remained stagnated for more than a decade. Compared to Japan's swift rise as a world economic powerhouse in the postwar years, the stagnation app...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yeong, Hansen Meng Fei.
Other Authors: Richard Wayne Carney
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39376
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
Description
Summary:The Lost Decade of Japan has been an enduring and confounding economic puzzle. Defying Monetarist and Keynesian expansionary measures, the economy remained stagnated for more than a decade. Compared to Japan's swift rise as a world economic powerhouse in the postwar years, the stagnation appears more confounding than ever. Economics takes us as far as identifying the problems at the macro and even micro levels. Beyond the economical realm, politics complements by explaining rational choices and decision making amongst the players in Japan that has shaped the economy to the eve of the asset bubble crash of 1990 and determined the nature of response that very much formed the economics of Japan's Lost Decade.