Government Policy towards Industry in the United States and Japan

by Edited by John B. Shoven

• ISBN13: 9780521026437
• ISBN10: 0521026431
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The essays contained in this volume represent state-of-the-art thinking on many important issues relating to government policies in the Japanese and American economies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Editor's summary John B. Shoven

Chapter 2. The corporate cost of capital in Japan and the United States: a comparison Albert Ando and Alan Auerbach

Chapter 3. The taxation of income from capital in Japan John B. Shoven and Toshiaki Tachibanaki

Chapter 4. Corporate tax burden and tax incentives in Japan Hiromitsu Ishi

Chapter 5. A closer look at saving rates in the United States and Japan Michael J. Boskin and John M. Roberts

Chapter 6. The Japanese current-account surplus and fiscal policy in Japan and the United States Kazuo Ueda

Chapter 7. Curing trade imbalance by international tax coordination Iwao Nakatani

Chapter 8. Picking losers: public policy toward declining industries in Japan Merton J. Peck, Richard C. Levin and Akira Goto

Chapter 9. Corporate capital structure in the United States and Japan: financial intermediation and implications of financial deregulation James E. Hodder

Chapter 10. The Japanese bureaucracy in economic administration: a rational regulator or pluralist agent? Masahiko Aoki

Chapter 11. Japan's energy policy during the 1970s Chikashi Moriguchi

Chapter 12. Industry structure and government policies in the U. S. and Japanese integrated-circuit industries W. Edward Steinmueller.