Postal Savings and Fiscal Investment in Japan: The Pss and the Filp

by Thomas F. Cargill

The book provides an overview of the Postal Savings System and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program. These institutions are a major feature of Japanese finance, not extensively discussed outside of Japan. Together, they represent a wide-ranging system of government financial intermediation that is increasingly incompatible with Japan's early efforts to develop a modern financial system and help reverse the economic and financial decline that started...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199257345
• ISBN13: 9780199257348
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"