Author/Editor: Gee Hee Hong, Arata Ito, Yukiko Umeno Saito, Anh Thi Ngoc Nguyen.

Release Date:September, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious threat to the survival of Japanese firms, highlighting the importance of understanding how and why firms exit. In this paper, we use a rich firm-level more...

Author/Editor: Elif C Arbatli, Steven J Davis, Arata Ito, Naoko Miake, Ikuo Saito.

Release Date:May, 2017

We develop new economic policy uncertainty (EPU) indices for Japan from January 1987 onwards building on the approach of Baker, Bloom and Davis (2016). Each index reflects the frequency of newspaper more...