Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Koichi Hamada, Anil K Kashyap, and David E. Weinstein -- The Japanese asset price bubble : a heterogeneous approach / Robert Barsky -- Time of troubles : the yen and Japan's economy, 1985-2008 / Maurice Obstfeld -- The Japan-US exchange rate, productivity, and the competitiveness of Japanese industries / Robert Dekle and Kyoji Fukao, with the Assistance of Murat Ungor -- International financial integration and Japanese economic performance / Philip R. Lane -- Consumption, land prices, and the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan / John Muellbauer and Keiko Murata -- The Japanese employment system after the bubble burst : new evidence / Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato -- Labor immobility in Japan : its causes and consequences / Kenn Ariga and Ryosuke Okazawa -- The changing role of main banks in aiding distressed firms in Japan / Joe Peek -- Corporate restructuring in Japan during the lost decade / Takeo Hoshi, Satoshi Koibuchi, and Ulrike Schaede -- An exploration of Japan's 1990 slowdown / Diego Comin.

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