Finance, governance, and competitiveness in Japan / edited by Masahiko Aoki and Gary R. Saxonhouse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strategies for overcoming Japan's economic crisis / Yoshio Suzuki -- Relational financing as an institution and its viability under competition / Masahiko Aoki and Serdar Dinç -- The fall of the Taisho economic system / Juro Teranishi -- Main banks, creditor concentration, and the resolution of financial distress in Japan / Brian J. Hall and David E. Weinstein -- The main bank system and corporate investment: an empirical reassessment / Fumio Hayashi -- The main bank system and corporate investment: further robustness tests / Takeo Hoshi -- Bank-owned security subsidiaries in Japan: evidence after the 1993 financial system reform / Yasushi Hamao and Takeo Hoshi - Credit ratings and spreads in the samurai bond market / Franklin Packer -- Japan's banking crisis in international perspective / Jenny Corbett -- Explaining the low litigation rate in Japan / Koichi Hamada -- Rational litigant redux: a response to Professor Hamada / J. Mark Ramseyer -- Rethinking administrative guidance / J. Mark Ramseyer -- R and D consortia, news, and Japanese high-technology policy: optoelectronics in Japan / Gary R. Saxonhouse -- The sources of industrial leadership / Richard R. Nelson -- The development of studies of the Japanese economy in the United States: a personal Odyssey / Hugh Patrick.