Cross Shareholdings in Japan: A New Unified Perspective of the Economic System Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgement
1	Cross shareholding as an underlying element of the Japanese economic system	1
2	Various forms of cross shareholding, and relevant statistics	7
3	Recent trends of share ownership and structural changes	13
4	Factors behind the 'dissolution' of cross shareholding	31
5	Functions of cross shareholding and its assessment	37
6	Effects of the 'dissolution' of cross shareholding and its assessment	53
7	Future prospects and required public policy	67
8	Conclusions: limitations of the Japanese-style economic system and its transformation	80
App. 1	Shareholding by a main bank and the effectiveness of corporate control: the case of electrical machinery firms in Japan, 1982-99	85
App. 2	Corporate control in Germany	93
	References	95
	Index	101