Japan's Dynamic Efficiency in the Global Market: Trade, Investment, and Economic Growth

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Bloomsbury Academic, May 23, 1991 - Business & Economics - 192 pages

With the highest growth rate, the highest savings rate, and the highest level of productivity increases in the industrialized world, Japan exerts significant influence on worldwide economic events and activities. This volume, written from the perspective of an international economist, presents an objective, analytical look at the global market connections of the Japanese economy. The author examines such issues as Japanese export and import patterns, trade barriers facing Japanese exports and imports, the changing productive capacity of Japan, and foreign investment in and by Japan in order to offer a clearer picture of Japan's role in the world economy. The impact of Japanese developments in such areas as technology, trade policy, and finance on the United States and other key international markets and the effects in Japan of global developments in these areas also receive thorough coverage.

Turner argues that the key to Japan's strength as an international economic power lies in what he terms dynamic efficiency--Japan's ability to make effective use of its internal domestic resources to leverage itself into the global marketplace. In fact, Turner asserts, much of Japan's success derives from its ability to apply the concepts and strategies that enabled the country to rebuild its economy during the postwar era to its current business dealings worldwide. Each chapter describes and analyzes a particular aspect of the Japanese economy; the issues addressed range from global trade and investment to macroeconomic effects of Japan on the global economy to Japan's relationship with less developed countries. An ideal supplemental text for courses in international business, the book will also be an invaluable resource for investors and business executives with dealings in Japan.

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Contents

Japan and the Dynamic Global Economy
1
Japanese Export Patterns
15
Japanese Import Patterns
31
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adjustment agricultural billion capita income commodity categories comparative advantage consumer consumption countries Country's Exports covered interest arbitragers decline demand dollars domestic economic growth effects exchange rates expected export markets factors of production fall firms foreign direct investment foreign exchange market foreign investment global market GNP per worker higher increase Indonesia industry interest rates International Trade investment in Japan investors Japa Japan's exports Japan's Share Japan's trade Japanese foreign direct Japanese investment LDCs lower macroeconomic major ment nese nontariff barriers OECD output patterns percent in 1985 percent of Japan's petroleum portfolio ports postwar period Reagan deficits real income relative prices rice Saxonhouse and Stern Share of Country's Share of Japan's SITC Tariff Equivalent Revenue tariff levels tariff revenue tend tion trade barriers trade deficits trade surplus trading partners transportation equipment U.S. dollars U.S. exports U.S. level United West Germany

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About the author (1991)

CHARLIE G. TURNER is Associate Professor of Economics at Old Dominion University. He teaches international economics and international finance at the graduate and undergraduate levels. His current research interests are in the areas of dynamic efficiency, international capital markets, Japan, and trade barriers. He has published articles in the Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, the Journal of Economic History, and Studies in Economic Analysis.

Bibliographic information

TitleJapan's Dynamic Efficiency in the Global Market: Trade, Investment, and Economic Growth
AuthorCharlie G. Turner
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 1991
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedAug 5, 2008
ISBN0899305563, 9780899305561
Length192 pages
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Business & Economics / General
Business & Economics / International / General
  
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