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Can Cheap Yen Drive GDP Growth, Part 2?

posted by Richard Katz on May 03, 2015

Found in Japan, categorized in International Trade and Investment

Tags: TOE Richard Katz Japan economy trade export

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Headline

This fundamental trend is why Japan’s exports have fallen relative to American and OECD exports, despite the ups and downs of the yen.

Abstract

In this report Richard analyzes why the yen’s weakness might not trigger a surge in the trade surplus that drives GDP growth as in the mid-2000s.

About Richard Katz

Richard Katz is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, the New York correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese business magazine, and formerly the editor of The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly newsletter on Japan.

Mr. Katz has taught about Japan’s economy as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, and as a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.

Mr. Katz is the author of two books on Japan's economic travails and has just finished a third book on reviving entrepreeurship in Japan.

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