Korea's Challenges Ahead—Lessons from Japan's Experience
Cover -- Contents -- Abstract -- I. Introduction -- II. Structural Issues -- III. Balance Sheets and Asset Prices -- IV. Inflation -- V. Conclusion and Policy Implications -- References -- Table -- 1. Regression Results -- Figures -- 1: Demographics in Korea and Japan -- 2. Korea's and Japan's Potential Growth -- 3: Productivity -- 4. Product Market Regulation in Upstream Sectors -- 5: Non-regular and Temporary Workers -- 6: Balance Sheets -- 7: Asset Prices -- 8: Inflation -- 9: Weight in CPI Basket of Items with Year-on-year Inflation below 1 Percent or Negative