Japan's financial crisis : institutional rigidity and reluctant change /

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At the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation's banks with an enormous burden of nonperforming loans. Banking crises have become increasingly common across the globe, but what was distinctive about the Japanese case was the unusually long d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amyx, Jennifer Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Finance > Japan.
Financial crises > Japan.
Banks and banking > Japan.
Finances > Japon.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Economy.
Banks and banking.
Finance.
Financial crises.
Finanzpolitik
Financiële crises.
Financiële instellingen.
Japan.
Japan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Networks and state performance
  • pt. 1. Contours of Japan's financial policy networks. Finance ministry ties with the political arena
  • Finance ministry ties with private and quasi-governmental financial institutions
  • Finance ministry ties with other government agencies and the central bank
  • pt. 2. Evolution of network-based regulation. Institutional "fit" for rapid growth
  • Slowed growth, institutional rigidity, and reforms postponed
  • Network-managed forbearance after the "bubble" bursts
  • Policy paralysis amid deepening crisis
  • pt. 3. Institutional change and system transition. A new regulatory and policymaking paradigm
  • Why can't Japan get back on track?
  • Conclusion.

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