Government Policy towards Industry in the United States and Japan Book

List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter

1. Editor's summary John B. Shoven;

Chapter 2. The corporate cost of capital in Japan and the United States: a comparison Albert Ando and Alan Auerbach;

Chapter 3. The taxation of income from capital in Japan John B. Shoven and Toshiaki Tachibanaki;

Chapter 4. Corporate tax burden and tax incentives in Japan Hiromitsu Ishi;

Chapter 5. A closer look at saving rates in the United States and Japan Michael J. Boskin and John M. Roberts;

Chapter 6. The Japanese current-account surplus and fiscal policy in Japan and the United States Kazuo Ueda;

Chapter 7. Curing trade imbalance by international tax coordination Iwao Nakatani;

Chapter 8. Picking losers: public policy toward declining industries in Japan Merton J. Peck, Richard C. Levin and Akira Goto;

Chapter 9. Corporate capital structure in the United States and Japan: financial intermediation and implications of financial deregulation James E. Hodder;

Chapter 10. The Japanese bureaucracy in economic administration: a rational regulator or pluralist agent? Masahiko Aoki;

Chapter 11. Japan's energy policy during the 1970s Chikashi Moriguchi;

Chapter 12. Industry structure and government policies in the U. S. and Japanese integrated-circuit industries W. Edward Steinmueller.