Cooperative Capitalism - Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan

Klappentext The Japanese government is becoming less involved in shaping industrial policy--but what does this imply for the openness of Japanese markets to foreign competition? In an extensive study of 'post-development' Japan, Ulrike Schaede argues that, contrary to what many have suggested, the reduced role of government regulation may not result in more open markets. Instead, as has happened throughout Japanese history, deregulation and the recession of the 1990s have once again led Japanese trade associations to assume important regulatory functions of their own. Zusammenfassung This text examines the effect that a reduced role of government regulation in Japanese industry is having on the openness of Japanese markets to foreign competition. It argues that Japanese trade associations have adopted self-regulation policies, setting and enforcing their own rules. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Japanese Trade Associations 3: Antitrust Policy and Industrial Policy in the Postwar Period 4: Self-Regulation and the Antimonopoly Law 5: The Evidence: Antitrust Enforcement and Self-Regulation in Postwar Japan 6: Data Analysis: Trade Associations and Self-Regulation 7: The Historical Development of Self-Regulation in Japan's Trade Associations 8: The Implications

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• Authors: Ulrike Schaede, Ulrike (Graduate School of International Schaede, Schaede Ulrike
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2000
• EAN: 9780198297185
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829718-5
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Japan Business & Economics; Japan Business and Economics Series; Japan Business and Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Japan, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, LAW / Antitrust, International business, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Industry & industrial studies, Monopolies, International Trade, Central government policies, Industry and industrial studies, International trade and commerce, Competition law / Antitrust law