Reversal of Fortune: Macroeconomic Policy, International Finance, and Banking in Japan



Gary R. Saxonhouse and Robert M. Stern

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4 Saxonhouse and Stern (2003) discuss different proposals for introducing consumption tax
increases in ways that would encourage rather than frustrate short-run recovery.



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