Author/Editor: Cristian Alonso, Mariya Brussevich, Era Dabla-Norris, Yuko Kinoshita, Kalpana Kochhar.

Release Date:October, 2019

Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a significant share of economic activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder more...

Author/Editor: Yuko Hashimoto, Noriaki Kinoshita.

Release Date:January, 2016

This paper analyzes the nonfinancial corporation (NFC) sector’s financial balance sheets using data available from the OECD. In our sample of 20 advanced economies, corporate debt in percent of more...

Author/Editor: Yuko Kinoshita, Fang Guo.

Release Date:March, 2015

Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the
challenges of a rapidly aging population. Though FLFP has generally been on a rising trend, more...

Author/Editor: Yuko Kinoshita.

Release Date:June, 2011

In the run up to the global crisis, countries in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe attracted large capital inflows and some of them built up large external imbalances. This paper investigates more...

Author/Editor: Yuko Kinoshita, Nauro F Campos.

Release Date:January, 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms -financial reforms, trade liberalization, and privatization- as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural more...

Author/Editor: Yuko Kinoshita, Nauro F Campos.

Release Date:November, 2003

This paper examines the importance of agglomeration economies and institutions vis-a-vis initial conditions and factor endowments in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors. Using a more...