Blog post
08 January 2018
Abenomics, five years in
Five years have passed since Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe was elected in 2012 and started “Abenomics”, a macroeconomic package based upon the “th
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Blog post
06 December 2017
How the EU has become an immigration area
Natural change of EU28 population (the balance of live births and deaths) has fallen from high positive values in the 1960s to essentially zero recent
Event
02 October 2017
Europe and Japan: Monetary policies in the age of uncertainty
The 5th Bruegel - Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University conference will focus on monetary policy.
Opinion piece
16 March 2017
Europe should lead the way with multilateralism
Despite the unique partnership with the USA, Europe needs to reflect on its place in an unstable world. Especially if the US Administration moves towa
Event
14 March 2017
Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in Europe and Japan
Intellectual property (IP) is a cornerstone for incentivising innovation initiatives. It defines a framework within which firms and individuals can pr
Policy brief
08 March 2017
How not to create zombie banks: lessons for Italy from Japan
How can Italian banks address the issue of non-perfoming loans? What lessons can they learn from Japan?
Opinion piece
28 November 2016
Japanese banks and US$ liquidity: Squeezed between expensive deposits and the BoJ
For the last few years, Japanese banks have aggressively expanded their assets overseas, which has helped increased their stubbornly low profitability
Event
18 October 2016
Innovation and economic reform in Europe and Japan
This event is co-organised by Bruegel and the Kobe University Graduate School of Economics.
Blog post
26 September 2016
Big in Japan
What’s at stake: This week saw two important Central Banks’ meetings, whose outcomes could hardly be more different. While the U.S. Federal Reserve le
Blog post
14 April 2016
Japan needs labour market reform, not just higher wages
The Japanese government is trying to boost wages, but this is not enough to jumpstart growth. Japan needs to reform its labour market to increase the
Event
05 October 2015
Secular Stagnation in Europe and Japan
This is the 3rd conference in a series of events jointly organised by Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University and Bruegel
Opinion piece
18 September 2015
China's woes could derail Abenomics
The Japanese economy is already showing clear signs of renewed weakness.
Blog post
27 April 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership
What’s at stake: U.S. Congressional leaders have recently introduced a bipartisan bill to renew the power of the president to 
Event
24 March 2015
Competition Policy: the Japanese experience
Competition Policy
Working paper
18 March 2015
The effort to stabilise the financial system in Japan: an outline and the characteristics of the programme for financial revival
This paper provides an overview of the Programme for Financial Revival announced in October 2002 in Japan. The programme aimed to dramatically reduce
Blog post
18 December 2014
The fall of real wages in Japan
A big question for the success or failure of the new economic policy strategy being implemented by Japanese Prime Minister Abe is the development in w