Japan's Financial Slump: Collapse of the Monitoring System under Institutional and Transition Failures (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)

This book evaluates the salient features of Japanese relation-based banking, particularly in the post war period, and Anglo-American mode of banking to explain the nature and extent of transition failure that caused prolonged financial and economic slump in Japan.

YASUSHI SUZUKI Professor of Finance at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. His main work is on the institutional political economy of financial development, and he has published on the Japanese financial system and the bank rent effects in South and East Asia.