Economic Knowledge


  1. If energy-saving home appliances and eco-cars become popular, even if the energy consumption per unit decreases, the total consumption can rise rather than increase due to the spread of the paradox.
  2. Labor productivity will not improve unless skills are accumulated through continuous work experience.
  3. When the government issues bank notes, you can increase money without collecting taxes, so the value of money falls and it becomes inflation. For this reason, I decided to issue the bills to the central bank, not the government.
  4. The central bank's role is "price stability" and "last lender"
  5. Both positive correlations (complementary) and negative correlations (alternatives) exist in each country's economic linkage. When the economy of country A gets better, exports from country B to country A increase, and economy of country B gets better, positive correlation, meanwhile, product of country A is sold worldwide and country A's economy improves , B countries exporting competing products are negatively correlated if the economy deteriorates when exports are unaffected. As international division of labor progresses, interlockingness weakens. But in the process division of labor, interlocking is enhanced. As liberalization of capital flows is funded in countries with high productivity, there is a negative correlation between countries with high productivity and those with low productivity.
  6. Comparative advantage and absolute advantage: When an input factor (such as working time) is finite, a person who is absolutely superior to tasks A and B does not perform both tasks A and B , A who has a comparative advantage in A and B who has comparative advantage in B can increase B by raising the total production.
  7. Value-added chain of final products: There is a difference in added value of the process among planning, development, design, parts procurement, assembly, distribution, retail, advertisement and service. When planning and developing in country A, procuring parts from country B, manufacturing in country C, and selling in country D, the trade balance seen by added value becomes important.
  8. Household balance + enterprise balance + government balance = current account
  9. Value-added import and export statistics are important (OECD, WTO)
  10. Gravity model of international trade: The amount of trade between two countries is proportional to the size of the economies of the two countries and inversely proportional to the distance. With this model, trade liberalization has demonstrated to increase trade volume.
  11. The economy needs to suppress three things: (1) the distribution at a certain point of the economic agent group, (2) the time series change of individual economic agents, and (3) the time series change of the distribution of the economic agent group There is.
  12. Demand as well as supply are important for economic growth. On the supply side, it is an increase in labor and capital inputs, and an improvement in labor and capital productivity. On the demand side, there are the elimination of demand shortage, demand for investment, increase in demand for funds. In terms of growth theory is easy to see on the supply side, but it is important to deregulate, open up to the outside, demand policy to make latent demand emerge.
  13. Aging and growth rate: The higher the proportion of the population aged 65 and over (population aged) is, the lower the growth rate.
  14. Countermeasures against population declining society: Improve employment ratio in the population, improve labor productivity, move labor to growth field
  15. Growth model after low growth: Next to industrialization, we will move towards economic service. (Example: USA)
  16. Decrease in capital stock is not calculated for GDP. Only capital stock recovery is counted as investment. → GDP tends to rise in disaster recovery.
  17. It is difficult to measure the productivity of the service industry, and the calculation method is different in each country.
  18. In the GDP growth rate, pay attention to the difference between "annual growth rate (year-on-year comparison)" and "average growth rate".
  19. "Bank" issued by the central bank is like a borrowed certificate
  20. Time preference rate: Current 100 yen and 150 yen after one year are regarded as equivalent.
  21. Risk preference rate: Consider the lottery with a winning probability of 50% with a certain 100 yen and a winning prize of 250 yen.
  22. Relative income hypothesis: Happiness depends on relative income compared to other people than absolute income. Adaptation hypothesis: Even if the standard of living improves, it gets accustomed to it at once, and the temporary euphoric feeling returns to the original level as well.
  23. Economic analysis: ① Build and analyze a top-down model. → Empirical analysis is easy to forget. ② Based on the bottom-up type economic observation and statistics, find the rule.
  24. The basics of economic analysis is to begin with drawing a graph and looking calmly. Gross national income = GDP + income obtained from overseas (interest / dividends, wages, distribution of investment trusts)
  25. Potential growth rate = capital growth + labor growth + productivity growth
  26. Time discount rate of payment and non-subjectivity of time of receipt discount rate
  27. Choose a series whose satisfaction (dissatisfaction) gradually increases (decreases). Caused by shifting the reference point due to habituation.
  28. Sales amount = price x quantity When the economic state changes, the quantity reacts first (leading indicator) and then the price reacts (lagging indicator).
  29. Supply and demand gap = GDP - latent GDP (function of labor input and capital input)
  30. Sustainability: to sustain natural capital (natural resources), artificial capital (production equipment etc.), human capital (population, human skills) without diminishing
  31. Weak sustainability We recognize the possibility of replacing natural capital, artificial capital, and human capital.
  32. Strong sustainability We do not recognize the possibility of replacing natural capital, artificial capital, and human capital.
  33. When using nature as a production factor, when using nature as a place of discharge within the natural renewable range, use is limited within the range of natural purification ability.
  34. Management resources of people, goods, money are gathered in profitable high cities = economic growth
  35. People gather in big cities when the economy improves.
  36. CPI interprets that if price improves but performance improves, price drops. See price per performance.
  37. In consumer sentiment, price changes are more likely to be conscious of frequent purchases. Ex. Food and home appliances
  38. Central bank's role price and unemployment rate. Asset price is not covered. Provide liquidity supply when liquidity becomes depleted.
  39. Stabilization of prices makes it expect to maintain low interest rates and creates excess liquidity.
  40. Increasing borrowings such as mortgage loans, car loans, etc. boost consumption at low interest rates.
  41. Economics: ① Inductive Approach Extracting the laws by analyzing statistical data, collecting statistical data on the net, analyzing with spreadsheet software, graphing PC economics. ② Deductive approach Analysis by model analysis and calculation Empirical analysis with real data
  42. Subtract dead time from total working time → estimate labor input elasticity value of production function → calculate production amount obtained from labor input without dead time → compare this value with reality The difference from the production amount is the loss amount caused by the dead time.
  43. Interest rate policy: Monetary tightening has an effect on economic depression, but the effect of monetary easing is uncertain (bubble or ineffective)
  44. Difference in price change between material raw materials and final goods: Price change of material raw material is intense. In the final good, the price change is small and there is a time delay with respect to price change of the material raw material.
  45. In the growth strategy, we should not devote to which industries are promising, but also to improve the environment, such as the institution and finance that form the basis of economic activity.
  46. Economic Growth: Growth should be based on accumulation of human capital. Growth dependent on natural resources or geopolitical factors which are accidental products will not last long. Internal accumulation of human capital such as technology, skills, knowledge, etc. is necessary.
  47. Until income reaches a certain level, income and happiness degree have a positive correlation.
  48. Principles of tripartite equivalence of GDP: expenditure side statistics = production side statistics = income side statistics
  49. Calculating actual GDP in Japan: Calculate separately the expenditure side estimate (final demand such as consumption, investment, government expenditure) and production side estimate (production amount - intermediate input amount) The difference is treated as "non-engagement". Since the income side estimate is created from the production side estimate, they always match.
  50. Three elements of industrial policy: ① Education of growth fields · R & D (environment, IT, medical) ② Deregulation and competition policy (elimination of barriers to entry, exit of low productivity enterprises, high production Capital and labor migration to sex businesses), (3) expansion of human capital (higher education, adaptive training in growth field)
  51. Net increase in equipment = capital investment - depreciation expenses
  52. "Satisfaction level of living" and "nominal GDP per capita" have a gentle positive correlation. There is a gentle positive correlation between "mind richness" and "economic richness".
  53. Relationship between "economic growth rate (return)" and "volatility (risk) of economic growth rate": There is research that the less the fluctuation in economic growth rate, the higher the economic growth rate .
  54. Industries with well-protected government have lower productivity and lower growth rates.
  55. Impact of change in income distribution curve on demand curve: Consumption will increase greatly when income exceeds a certain level. Nonlinearity of consumption function. Consumption expands when the income distribution has the highest income of the most layer.
  56. For complex real economies, simplified models and analytical methods have resulted in abundant analysis and application skills. Samuelson's neoclassical economics
  57. Potential growth rate = cruising speed that can be achieved without inflation or deflation
  58. Good price increase: domestic demand increase (demand side factor), bad price rise: price increase of raw materials and other imported items (supply side factor)
  59. Good rise in interest rate and bad interest rate rise
  60. Intangible asset investment (R & D, reorganization of organization, education / training of workers) is important for economic growth.
  61. Human Capital: Consider workers as capital like machinery equipment that can increase production capacity by investment (education / training). Positive for long-term relationships between companies and individuals and seniority wage.
  62. Gross National Income (GNI) = GDP + Trade Profit / Loss + Overseas Income: Trade Profit / Loss = Export Price Increase - Import Price Inflation Increase, Overseas Income = Interest Dividend Revenue - Interest Dividend Payment
  63. Reasons for open market operation better than official discount lending: It is efficient and easy to absorb funds once supplied. It is possible to leave the judgment on whether to incorporate funds into the autonomy of the financial institution side.
  64. Short term business cycle: stock investment circulation 3-4 years cycle. Medium-term business cycle: capital investment cycle 10 years cycle. Long-Term Business Cycle: Construction Investment Cycle, 20 Years Period. Long-Term Business Cycle: Social Capital Investment Cycle, 50 Years Period.
  65. Contemporary trade is not a comparative advantage but what can be described with economies of scale. World trade is also under monopolistic competition. Krugman analyzed with a simple mathematical model.
  66. Accumulation of economic activities seen in urban areas creates new added value.
  67. Innovation progresses by replacing low productivity capital with high productivity capital.
  68. It is important how much redistribution of lifetime income among individuals belonging to the same generation is done.
  69. Temporal change of shape of income distribution: temporal change of mean value, temporal change of variance, absolute value level are important
  70. Balance between fairness and efficiency: Do you prioritize fairness (disparity correction) even at the expense of economic efficiency, or if you approve the disparity but prioritize economic efficiency?
  71. Internal and external price differences between tradable and non-tradable goods, purchasing power parity
  72. Central bank job: stabilizing inflation and unemployment. The surge in asset prices is not subject to management. Risk management of financial institutions investing in assets. Maintaining the financial system.
  73. As a result of excessive competition, after the withdrawal of the competitor, you can enjoy the residual benefit when the demand reaches a curved surface.
  74. In the case of economic statistics, we can not generally assume a normal distribution. The average value is not a representative value of the whole, but rather it is better to look at the median (median). It can also be grasped by a lognormal distribution.
  75. Savings - Domestic Investment = Goods & Services Balance + Income Balance
  76. Manufacturing is easy to catch up for developing countries. You can attract factories. By hiring low-income farmers in large quantities at factories, exports are expanded independently of the domestic market, making it possible to change the industrial structure and achieve high income. Meanwhile, in the service industry, acquisition of diverse skills and accumulation of establishment of institution will progress only gradually, neither development as industry nor improvement of productivity will progress. It is left at a low wage.
  77. There is an interaction between labor productivity and human capital investment. Similarly, there is interaction between capital productivity and machine capital investment.
  78. If you are spending tax increases on infrastructure such as roads, it will increase the productivity of the company. If it is spent on education and health sanitation, accumulation of human capital increases the productivity of workers. If you analyze in a model that covers all public investment with income tax, if you increase public investment (Increase in income tax), economic growth will increase but further growth (income tax will also increase), on the contrary the growth turns negative. Indicate the optimal size of public investment. Growth will be negative as government consumption increases, such as civil service salaries and medical insurance contributions.
  79. The degree of monetary easing can be seen in (1) base money / GDP ratio and (2) M2 / base money ratio. In Japan, since 1990, (1) the base money / GDP ratio has consistently increased, and (2) the M2 / base money ratio has been consistently decreasing.
  80. Elements that determine long-term interest rates: fiscal balance, inflation rate, current account balance, policy interest rate
  81. The effect of monetary policy is influenced by the monetary policy of other countries, so one result (foreign exchange, economy, inflation) arises from the combination of multiple monetary policies.
  82. The ratio of the productive age population divided by the nonproductive age population is positively correlated with the country's growth potential, especially with respect to house price movements. The turning point of this ratio will be the turning point of economic growth, the turning point of the housing bubble.
  83. Relationship between nominal GDP growth rate and long-term interest rate (10 years): If nominal GDP growth rate is greater than long-term interest rate, it tends to be a bubble. It is normal that nominal GDP growth rate is lower than long term interest rate.
  84. Analyze actual economic phenomena with a simple mathematical model

Knowledge of Japanese economy


  1. The collapse of the bubble economy in 1990: The biggest challenge was the global rate cut of the United States (from 1982), the ultra low interest rate for the first time by the BOJ's discount rate cut (until 1987), etc. Funds flowed into real estate and bubbles occurred. The Bubble collapses with the Bank of Japan raising the discount rate and the government's real estate investment regulation.
  2. The collapse of the IT bubble in 2000: The first opportunity was the first US Internet company boom and the BOJ's first zero interest rate. The intermittent rate hike of the Fed decelerates the economy and the bubble burst.
  3. Collapse of stock price in 2007 (subprime crisis): The chance was the buying of Japanese stocks by foreign investors in European and American housing bubbles and Japanese structural reform expectations. A worldwide credit crunch arises with the subprime problem becoming apparent and the stock price collapses. Late stock price declines due to the recession after that.
  4. Japanese households possess 5% of Japanese government bonds outstanding as individual government bonds. Japanese households indirectly hold 80% of JGB issuance outstanding through financial institutions and insurance companies.
  5. Wage decline is a phenomenon not seen in other developed countries. Nominal employer compensation in Japan peaked in 1997. Nominal wages in Japan declined by 10% in the period from 95 to 2010, while in the US the 70% increase and in the euro area by 40%.
  6. While the household's balance is decreasing year after year, the balance of income has declined due to capital investment until around 1990, the deficit contracted after 1990, and after 1997 It is in surplus. The government balance is profitable only during the bubble economy, and the deficit has expanded since 1997.
  7. A theory that prices move about 1 year behind fluctuations in exchange rates. When the yen appreciates, deflation will result due to a decline in wages of exporters and falling prices of imported goods to maintain competitiveness.
  8. There is no growth expectation is the problem of the Japanese economy. Expectation of consumption, expectation of investment, expectation of income, expectation of export.
  9. The proportion of imported goods in Japan's total consumer goods is 20%
  10. In the future of the Japanese economy, we should promote expansion of demand by setting targets for health care, education, training, learning and housing as domestic demand, without relying on government demand and external demand. We should consider utilizing the assets owned by elderly people.
  11. Japan's national budget (11th fiscal year): ① Revenue tax revenue: 40 trillion yen JGBs: 44 trillion yen Outside tax income: 7 trillion yen, ② expenditure policy expenses: 54 trillion yen (including social security expenses: 25 trillion yen) Distribution tax 17 trillion yen JGB costs 20 trillion yen
  12. General accounts expenditure keeps increasing every year. Tax revenue is a trend of consistently declining trend while moving up and down with peak of 91 years.
  13. Core competitiveness: Japan's manufacturing industry in the high-growth period has increased its global share with its core competitiveness as low-cost and high-quality (no defective, nonfaulty) production technology.
  14. Tax return declaration of domestic corporation: The proportion of corporate tax returns declared as 50% in 1990, 30% in 1997, 25% in fiscal 2010.
  15. Public public land price: Publicly released by March, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, (2) Baseline land price: Publicly released in September of prefecture, (3) Route price: Published by July in the National Tax Agency
  16. The annual average salary of salary earners in Japan peaked in 1997 and then declined.
  17. Household heads of two or more unemployed households who are 60 years of age or older have income of 220,000 yen a month, disposable income of 190,000 yen a month, consumption expenditure is 250,000 yen a month, month We are withdrawing 60,000 yen from assets.
  18. In 2010, the population over the age of 65 is 29 million, accounting for 25% of the total population. In 2020, it will increase to 30%.
  19. Domestic and overseas price differences between Japan and the US: In 1995, Japan's consumer price was 2.1 times that of the US, but it declined to 1.4 times in 10 years.
  20. About 50% of the Japanese listed companies are real debt-free companies (interest-bearing debts
  21. GDP per capita has been getting closer to the level of the United States until 1992, but it has been separated since 1992.
  22. Overseas production ratio of Japanese manufacturing industry: 25% in 2001, 35% in 11 years
  23. Pharmaceuticals: Since 2000, exports have remained flat, but imports soared. In 2011, the trade balance of medicines accounted for half of Japan's trade deficit, making it a hidden leading actor in the trade deficit.
  24. Looking at the real execution exchange rate, the yen's depreciation continues drastically in recent years.
  25. Balance by section (80 - 10 years): Although households are in the black, the surplus width is gradually decreasing with peaks in 1992. Companies have been in the red through 1991 (bottomed in 1991), then reduced in deficit, turned back to profit in 1997 and maintained a surplus thereafter. The government has been in deficit all the time except for 88 to 92 years. The deficit has expanded since 1992.
  26. Between 1985 and 2010, the surplus in the trade surplus is decreasing year by year, while the income balance increases year by year.
  27. The hourly wages of salaried workers who divided total salaries by working hours decreased significantly from 2,500 yen in the latter half of the 1990s, to 2400 yen.
  28. Wage curve: In terms of regular salaries, wages will rise until around the age of 50, but then they will decline. Compared to the wage curve 20 years ago, the degree of increase until the late 40s is smaller.
  29. Looking at the composition ratio of GDP by industry (nominal), Japan ranks from 70% to 09, primary industry from 5% to 1%, secondary industry from 42% 25%, tertiary industry changed from 50% to 75%, all changed with almost consistent trend.
  30. Vulnerable shopper: Elderly, disabled, mothers during child rearing. There are 6 million shoppers nationwide weak.
  31. Look at the market value of housing (land price + building) by the ratio of nominal GDP.
  32. Consumer price index: The International Labor Organization regulates the items, and each country government creates indicators based on it.
  33. Annual food expenditure per household: Declining trend with peak at 97 years.
  34. domestic new car sales: 90 years peak, then 96 years second peak, then constant level. It declined from 2006.
  35. Domestic banks have been increasing in deposits for the past twenty years, loans decreased in 1999, and instead government bonds increased since 1999.
  36. Trends in the economy surrounding Japan: ① Globalization Determining the optimal production location and selling place on a global scale, activation of import and export, Englishization, ② Information conversion outside the enterprise within the IT industry , From hard-oriented to soft · content oriented, global standardization / Englishization of business, IT innovation, ③ supply change technological innovation, cost increase, productivity improvement, ④ demand change domestic demand change, overseas demand change, ⑤ structural change economy Structural changes, changes in population income structure, changes in corporate strategy / inter-company relations
  37. Japanese automobile industry: Shipment value accounts for 20% of total manufacturing industry in Japan. Significant rise in this 30 years. The base is wide, and the demand increase (ripple effect) to the Japanese economy due to the increase in demand for automobiles is tripled. The correlation between automobile production and real GDP is about 0.8, the correlation is higher than in the past, the dependence on the automobile in the Japanese economy is intensifying.
  38. Problems in the Japanese economy: (1) companies with low productivity do not leave the market, (2) productivity of nonmanufacturing industry and small and medium enterprises remains low for manufacturing enterprises (3) that it can not follow the trends of the world (internationalization, IT, technological innovation, economic structural change), (4) the aging of existing companies progresses, there is no metabolism due to the growth of young companies.
  39. The important thing is not to increase exports but to increase exports and imports, to make the economy more efficient and to enrich the lives of the people.
  40. The only solution to improve Japan 's fiscal situation is growth. Since it is geographically close to growing countries in Asia such as China, we intend to increase exports by importing products and services to Asia, increase imports of parts, etc. and activate trade.
  41. The operating profit margin of Japanese companies has declined year by year in the past 50 years. Strong growth orientation continues to inject large amounts of management resources into inefficient business against the law of diminishing returns.
  42. Household's financial assets balance is 1500 trillion yen. Household surplus amount is 10 trillion yen. Corporate surplus amount is 30 trillion yen. Government fund shortage is 40 trillion yen.
  43. Number of employees in Japan: 20% in wholesale and retail, 9% in accommodation and dining, 7% in construction, 16% in manufacturing, 4% in lifestyle entertainment, 10%
  44. The proportion of exports to Japan's nominal GDP is 9% (95 years), 15% (2010). The overseas production ratio of manufacturing industry is 8% (95 years), 18% (2010).
  45. Percentage of manufacturing industry in Japan's nominal GDP: 17.6%
  46. Number of employed persons by occupation (1953 - 2010): Manufacturing industry · Construction industry: peaked in 1995, then suddenly declined, clerical worker: peaked in 1998, then flat, : Peaked in 1993, then declined, professional technical and service jobs: constantly rising
  47. Finance in Japan: Although the total expenditure is growing year by year, general tax revenues have declined year after year in 1990.
  48. Recruitment of employment in Japan: agriculture, forestry and fishery → manufacturing industry / construction industry → wholesale and retailing · food service · service industry → medical and welfare services
  49. The number of workers in agriculture and forestry fishery has declined consistently after the war. The number of employees in the manufacturing industry shifted to textile and light industry, steel / electric machinery, automobile / electronics, peaked in 1992, and then decreased by 30%. The number of workers in the construction industry peaked in 1997, and it declined with the reduction of public works projects. The number of wholesale and retailing · food service employment peaked at the peak after 1997.
  50. In Japan, "real debtless companies" with more cash on hand than interest-bearing liabilities account for half of the listed companies. Investment yield on hand cash is less than 1%, and funds are not used effectively.
  51. Japan's nominal GDP per employee in FY09 is 3.72 million yen.
  52. In the past 50 years, the composition ratio of general accounts expenditure in Japan has increased government bond and social security expenses, public works expenses and educational expenses declined.
  53. GDP ratio of general government debt rose in the last 20 years, currently over 200%, prominently higher than other countries.
  54. Source of GDP growth rate per capita: Since the 1980s Japan: Improvement in labor productivity is a positive factor, and change in labor participation rate is a negative factor. Korea: Improvement in labor productivity and change in labor participation rate are a positive factor. China: Employment conversion from agriculture, improvement of labor productivity, labor participation rate plus factor
  55. Corporate balance sheet adjustment (excessive elimination of facilities, liabilities, employment) lasts an average of 8 years and pushes down the growth rate.
  56. In the manufacturing industry, overseas sales ratio increased from 30% to 50% in 10 years.
  57. In service industries such as retailing, an increase in business hours resulted in an increase in irregular employment, total working hours increased, and labor productivity declined.
  58. Looking at the line price, the price of the regional area moves late from the Tokyo area.
  59. Economic activity index: In the case of declines, the leading index precedes the coincidence index. In the case of inversion, the leading exponent and the coincident exponent rise almost at the same time
  60. In Japan, the surplus in the income balance has been growing from the trade surplus in the past 10 years.
  61. Labor productivity Japan is 70% in the United States, especially nonmanufacturing industry is bad.
  62. Percentage of GDP. Private consumption 55%, capital investment 15%, exports 15%
  63. Capital investment circulation every few years.
  64. The objectives of capital investment are the order of capacity upgrade, product advancement, labor saving, research and development, maintenance and repair.
  65. Japan's service industry has 70% of GDP,
  66. Reduce working hours, increase added value, expand overseas
  67. Japanese public investment is the highest in developed countries at 5% of GDP.
  68. If the yen is high, foreign-funded enterprises can earn high profits (denominated in Japan) in Japan.
  69. The percentage of corporations that declared a profit in fiscal 2009 was around 25%, in the 2000s it was around 30%.
  70. Number of factories newly located in Japan: peaked in 1989, sharp drop in 90 - 94 years, flat in 95 - 03. After that, we set a small peak in 2006.
  71. Decline of the semiconductor industry: throughout the competition in the country. I will overlook emerging forces. Many domestic companies compete for less pie (domestic market).
  72. Consumption of single persons in their 20s: In the past 30 years, food expenses and clothing costs in expenditures declined, while housing expenses increased sharply. In 2009, men accounted for 20% Women came to occupy 30%. The number of company houses, public housing, apartments has decreased, and high security condominiums have increased.
  73. Of the ordinary revenues of Japanese companies, 1 to 20% are profits from foreign direct investment.
  74. Japanese GNI (Gross National Income) is 4% larger than GDP. Foreign direct investment in Japan is large but inward direct investment is small, so the gap between GNI and GDP is the largest in the world.
  75. Local regeneration: from retailing (commercial facility) to service industry (health promotion facility, elderly dwelling)
  76. Substantial debt = cash on hand at hand (cash and short-term securities) - Interest-bearing debt. In Japan, 47% of listed companies have real debt
  77. Company: Creating 46 trillion yen from business activities, using 30 trillion yen for investment and 16 trillion yen for deposit and debt repayment. Cash on hand was 65 trillion yen. It is more than 53 trillion yen of the general expenditure of the government.
  78. Steps of overseas production: export → local production → local procurement of parts raw materials
  79. Impact of overseas production: (1) "export substitution effect" in which overseas production products are replaced with exports from Japan, (2) "reverse import effect" in which overseas products are imported to Japan, "Export inducement effect" in which parts raw materials are exported to corporations. By "export substitution effect" + "reverse import effect"> "export inducement effect", domestic production and employment will shrink by overseas expansion.
  80. In Japanese tax revenue, income tax, corporation tax, consumption tax are in order. Long-term trends, income taxes tend to decline, corporate taxes fluctuate up and down, and consumption taxes are stable.
  81. Japan's labor force population declined at the peak of 2000. The labor force population ratio declines year by year in the long term, 60% in 2009.
  82. In Japan, the annual actual working hours per person has decreased consistently since 1990. The average monthly wage salary consistently declined at the peak of 1997.
  83. Japan's per capita nominal GDP is 19th in OECD (highest is second in 1993)
  84. (Savings - domestic investment) is kept in foreign currency (dollar), but if it is converted to your own currency, it will become your home currency and affect exports, so foreign investment Lending, etc.). Savings will increase if exports increase, domestic investment opportunities of emerging countries are few, surplus funds go to foreign countries.
  85. Although the stabilization function of the economy is an interest rate policy in the West and the West, fiscal policy (especially public investment) is used in Japan, and the proportion of nominal GDP of public investment is large in accordance with the wave of the economy It fluctuated.
  86. Japan's economic growth 1956-73: average 9.3%, 1974-90 average: 4.5%, 1991-08: 1.0% average
  87. Proportion of yen-denominated transactions in Japan's trade: 20-25% of imports, 35-40% of exports, crude oil and iron ore are many dollar-denominated transactions.
  88. Percentage of dollar-denominated transactions in Japan's trade: 70 to 75% imported, 50% exported Before oil shock: 5% to 14% growth (average 8%), oil shock time: -1% growth, then 3% growth, bubble economy: 5% growth, then 0% A low growth age of 3% continues. Household financial assets (Japan): 50% cash and deposits, insurance / pension 26%, stock 11%, investment trust 5%, bonds 3%, others 5%
  89. Household financial assets (US): 13% of cash and deposits, 31% of insurance and pension, 31% of stocks, 14% of investment trusts, 7% of bonds and 4%
  90. Noteworthy indicators of the economy (domestic): industrial production index, street corner index, machine order statistics
  91. Representative economic indicators: GDP, Tankan Tankan, Industrial Production Index, Consumer Price Index, Corporate Enterprise Statistics, Labor Force Survey
  92. WTO Japan Examination: Japanese agriculture has low labor productivity. Tariffs on agricultural products are high, and government subsidies for agriculture are also large. Industrial goods are low in tariffs and free trade. Acceptance of foreign investment is low level.
  93. Subsidies for dissemination of technology (housing installation of household solar cell panels, etc.): Popularization will advance as subsidy is raised. If the subsidy is raised too much, the high cost structure of the production side will not be improved, the competition will be stagnant, even if the subsidy is not paid out, it will be impossible to become independent as an industry.
  94. Characteristics of the economic activity index: In the recession phase, the leading index falls ahead of the coincident index. In the economic recovery phase, the leading index starts to rise almost simultaneously with the coincident index.
  95. The lagging index moves lag behind the coincidence index in both the recession phase and the economic recovery phase.
  96. Overseas sales ratio: Automobile 60%, precision equipment 55%, electrical equipment 45%, machinery 40%, steel 25%
  97. National debt is 6.5 million yen per citizen
  98. Three excesses of equipment, employment, and debt
  99. Characteristics of the economy: Izanagi Birds: Real annual rate 11.5%, nominal annual rate 18.4% growth, capital investment is a driving force. Bubble economy: Real annual growth rate of 5.4%, nominal annual growth rate of 7.3%, capital investment is a driving force. The current economic expansion: 2.2% annual real annual growth, nominal annual 0.8% growth, exports are the driving force
  100. Business cycle: Short-term circulation: 3 to 4 years cycle, due to inventory circulation (shipping, inventory balance).
  101. Purpose of Capital Investment in Manufacturing Industry: Capacity Increase 38%, New Product / Product Advanced 12%, Streamlining / Labor-saving 11%, Research and Development 8%, Maintenance and Repair 18%
  102. In Japan, income of older age group is low, income transfer from low age group to high age group occurs through social security system such as pension, medical care, nursing care etc.
  103. Only 13% of R & D projects granted by the government were put into practical use in 5 years.
  104. Population flows into the metropolitan area, productivity increases due to the population concentration and the growth rate increases, but the provinces become low growth with decreasing population (especially young labor force).
  105. Domestic new car sales: It is on a downward trend year by year.
  106. In 1995-2003, the labor productivity growth rate in the service industry was 1% per annum at OECD, the manufacturing industry's labor productivity growth rate was 4%, the highest in OECD
  107. Japanese company overseas sales ratio: 70% of automobiles, 50% of electrical machinery and machinery, 20% of food, 6% of construction, 45%
  108. Production forecast index and forecast revision rate are important as leading indicators.
  109. GDP: Individual consumption 60%, private capital investment 15%. Private capital investment has a large impact on GDP. Machinery orders statistics are leading indicators.
  110. Industry index: production, shipping, inventory. Stock ratio index = stock quantity / shipping quantity. Shipment stock balance = shipping growth rate - inventory growth rate
  111. Focus on production index and shipping inventory balance of electronic parts / devices.
  112. Nikkei Product Index: Economic Leading Index
  113. Generality of leading indicators: Although the recession phase is a leading indicator, the economic recovery phase is a coincidence indicator.
  114. Increase / decrease in nominal personal consumption is highly correlated with disposable income.
  115. Demand rate of GDP: Individual consumption 60% (US: 70%), capital investment 15%, public investment 4%, exports 18%, imports 16%
  116. Proportion of GDP: 1.5% agricultural and forestry fishery, manufacturing 21%, construction 6%, retail wholesale 14%, financial insurance 7%, service industry 21%
  117. Clothing sales: the United States is not good. Japan, China order. Europe is not so much.
  118. 2 Regional Dwellings (City and Region)
  119. Japanese companies are 40% in yen for export and 25% for yen in imports.
  120. The population decline factor is 0.5%, the population constitution factor is 0.5%, Japan's growth rate is depressed.
  121. Social Security: If it becomes a high burden due to the expansion of social security, it is negative to economic growth. Meanwhile, in the sense of insurance function to economic risk (unemployment, medical expenses), risk appetite is increased, plus economic growth.
  122. Speaking of corporate numbers, 70% of companies do not pay corporate tax. With corporate tax, you can do profit and loss for 9 years.
  123. Japanese public works projects declined sharply with peaks in 1995.
  124. Of the corporations that declared tax returns, the percentage of returning profits was 25%, while for the results before tax net loss carry forward, 50% of corporations are in surplus. The percentage of consolidated corporations reporting a surplus in many large corporations is 35%.
  125. Japan's public works expenditure has continued to decline since its peak in 1997.
  126. From the United States and Europe, Japan has higher flexibility of wages because employment priority is given to Japan. Bonuses, overtime workers, increased non-regular employment, and bachelor's hourly wage are strongly bendable.
  127. The cause of the slump in the Japanese economy is a reduction in working hours. It is necessary to promote labor participation by women and elderly people and to increase the working population (labor participation rate).
  128. In the primary industry, the number of workers declined sharply, but the production volume did not decrease. This is because the productivity has been greatly improved. In the manufacturing industry, transition from manufacturing industry to service industry will not proceed in rural areas with few population. Compared with the manufacturing industry, which is a production base nationwide and overseas, only the population size of that area has employment absorption capacity of service industry.
  129. Japan's patent balance: 70% of the export surplus of technology is received from overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies

Knowledge of the world economy

  1. Personnel expenses in Asian countries: in descending order, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh
  2. Ratio of industrial sector's GDP of Japan, China, and Korea: Japan is decreasing year by year from 45% in 70 years, 39% in 90 years, 28% in 2009.
  3. South Korea peaked in 1990 with 25% in 70 years, 42% in 90 years, 37% in 2009. China increases year by year, 36% in 90 years, 42% in 2009.
  4. GDP of purchasing power parity standard: US $ 15 trillion, China 10 trillion, Japan · India 4 trillion, Germany 3 trillion dollars
  5. Secret of exporting nation Korea: a free trade agreement with the United States and Europe, etc., with an effective corporate tax rate of 24%, industrial electricity price is cheap, international competitiveness of huge zaibatsu group of companies, overseas Corporate investment in Korea.
  6. USA: Housing prices are more effective in assets than stock prices.
  7. The ratio of exports to nominal GDP is 15% in Japan, 12% in the US, 25 - 35% in China, 12% in Brazil, 45%
  8. Labor cost: Japan's wage level is 2.5 times higher than that of Korea, 10 times higher than China, 30 times higher than Vietnam
  9. Japan that is geographically closer to Asia in developed countries will grow with the growth of Asia.
  10. Japan is disadvantageous in terms of labor costs, foreign exchange, corporate tax and infrastructure costs compared to China, Korea and Taiwan.
  11. Ratio of urban residents: 82% in the US, 66% in Japan, 81% in Korea, 51% in China, 29% in India
  12. Manufacturing industry revived in the United States: (1) Reduction in personnel expenses (personnel expenses in emerging countries are rising year by year), (2) land for the US market (scale of market size and scale expansion by population increase) (Electricity, transportation network, communication), (6) low energy consumption due to the development of new natural gas, (2) low price of exported goods,
  13. DRAM's global market share is dominated by the US in the 1970s, Japan in the 80s and 90s, and Korea in the 2000s.
  14. Ratio of outward direct investment balance to nominal GDP: UK 75%, US 30%, Japan 15% Singapore 300%, Malaysia and Vietnam 150%, Korea 90%, Germany 70%, China 70%, China 50%, Japan 25%, the United States 20%
  15. Dependence on trade (total export / import ratio to GDP)
  16. Nominal GDP per capita (in dollars): Luxembourg 100,000 dollars, Norway 80 thousand dollars, Switzerland 70 thousand dollars, Australia / Denmark 60 thousand dollars, US / Canada 50 thousand dollars, Japan, Germany, France 40 thousand dollars, UK 35 thousand dollars, Korea 20 thousand dollars, China 4 thousand dollars 
  17. Decline in real estate prices in Korea: Decline in the population of major producers, production age (15 to 64 years old) greatly affects housing price declines. In Japan, the peak of the productive age population was 1995.
  18. U.S. firms also invested large amounts of capital investment and research and development in the 1980s, but investment productivity was low and the company value was not raised.
  19. Even if the population of developed countries is flat, the population of developing countries increases, and the population continues to increase in the world as a whole. Food and resource prices will rise.
  20. Ratio of inward direct investment balance to GDP: Japan, China, India, Korea, Germany, USA, France, UK
  21. Nominal GDP per capita (denominated) is in the order of Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, the United States of America, France, Germany, Germany and the UK
  22. Ratio of manufacturing industry to GDP: Thailand 39%, Korea 27%, Germany 23%, Japan 21%, the United States 14%
  23. Industrial Production Index: Bottom out will be in Korea / Taiwan, then Japan, then USA and Europe in order.
  24. Dollar depreciation → buy US government bonds by foreign investors → low interest rates in the United States. Dollar depreciation → currency intervention → buying US government bonds by foreign governments, buying euros → low interest rates in the US, weakened dollar. Low interest rate → Reduction of interest rate differential between Japan and the US → Dollar depreciation. Emerging market currency high → Dollar buying intervention to maintain export → Increase in dollar assets → buying euro → depreciation of the dollar. Dollar depreciation → high resource → resource assets increase dollar assets → buy euro → depreciate the dollar.
  25. Ratio of exports to GDP: 16% in Japan, 11% in the UK, 26% in the UK, 47% in Germany, 42% in China, 46% in Korea, 21% in India, 73% in Thailand, 110% in Malaysia, Singapore 231%, Indonesia 29%, Brazil 14%
  26. Manufacturing industries in developed countries have kept raw material prices low to their own product prices and secured profits. On the other hand, the terms of trade of resource countries has continued to deteriorate.
  27. Energy self-sufficiency rate: Japan 18%, Germany 39%, France 50%, USA 71%, China 94%, UK 96%, Canada 148%, Russia 181%
  28. R & D expenditure: Japan accounts for 20% of government expenditure and private expenditure accounts for 80%. US government expenditure proportion is 30%, Europe is 30 to 40%
  29. Number of industrial robots operated: Japan is innocent. The second is Germany, the third is the United States. Grain demand / supply: Demand rises year by year mainly in emerging countries. Supply is on an increasing trend, but there are waves in production volume under the influence of the weather. The stock rate declined year by year.
  30. Consumer price index: 5% (90 years) → 2% (09 years), 2) Japan (year-on-year comparison): 2.5 % (90 years) → -0.7% (2009)
  31. Export Ratio to GDP (2010): Singapore 160%, Malaysia 80%, Thai / Vietnam 60%, Philippines / Indonesia 20%
  32. Asian supply chain: Materials, electronic parts, capital goods are exported from Japan to Korea and Taiwan. Manufactured semiconductors / liquid crystal panels in Korea · Taiwan and exported to China. In China, assembled home appliances, exported to the United States and Europe. Engel coefficient: Myanmar 73%, India 44%, Japan 23%, USA / Germany 7%, UK 11%
  33. Japan's Engel coefficient is high because domestic agriculture's production cost is high, because tariffs are high, both domestic and imported goods are high in food prices.
  34. Miracles in Ireland: High educational standards, good access to the EU market, English-speaking workforce, preferential taxation, R & D promotion
  35. Many US-based companies (manufacturers, IT companies) have entered into the market, creating 100,000 employment, high growth in manufacturing and exporting.
  36. The amount of trade in the world is 3 trillion yen per day, the transaction value of the exchange is 370 trillion yen.
  37. Asian Manufacturing Employee Wages will be Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, descending in descending order, Beijing, Shanghai and other Asian cities.
  38. Saudi Arabia: 6%, Germany: 6%, Russia: 5%, China: 5%, Japan: 3%, South Korea: 3%, Argentina: 2 %, Indonesia: 1%, Mexico: -1%, France: -2%, UK: -2%, Australia: -2%, Brazil: -2%, Canada: -3%, Italy: -3%, India : -3%, USA: -3%, South Africa: -4%, Turkey: -5%
  39. Germany is an advantage in exporting high-priced items for rich people in emerging countries. HNWIs in emerging economies are expanding year after year. Make export goods that can be sold at a high price, irrespective of the euro price and export. Example: Luxury passenger car, brand name item
  40. China's growth mechanism: Real average growth rate 11%, average inflation rate 2%, ① Direct investment inflows to China. ② Progress of Urbanization: The surplus labor force population caused by agricultural mechanization of rural areas flows into urban areas. Labor force moves from low productivity agriculture to high productivity manufacturing industry and wages increase. Increase in housing demand in urban areas, purchase of durable consumer goods occur. Manufacturers can make use of abundant low-paying rural people for labor and increase productivity.
  41. If the inflow of workers slows down, wages will rise and inflation will occur. Transition to low growth.
  42. Expansion of the RMB under underestimation: The current rate is half of purchasing power parity. Peak of production age population: Japan peaks in 1992, the US in 2006, Asia in 15 years, Latin America in 20 years and then decreases.
  43. In the United States, due to the construction of a large number of houses at the time of housing bubble, inventory has accumulated, bringing down current housing prices and housing construction stagnation.
  44. Per capita GDP (nominal dollar): Luxembourg> Norway >> Japan >> Singapore >> Korea >> Taiwan
  45. Per capita GDP (purchasing power parity): Luxembourg> Norway> Singapore >> United States >> Taiwan >> Japan
  46. Dependence on trade (total of imports and exports / GDP): Japan is 30%, in developed countries it is low following the United States. The world average is 50%.
  47. Turning point of Lewis: Developing countries have surplus labor force in rural areas, and economic growth occurs by constantly shifting this cheap labor force to the industrial sector such as urban areas. If rural labor is depleted, supply to the industrial sector will cease and wages will begin to rise.
  48. Households in the United States: Two people in three hold shares. The proportion of risk assets (stocks / investment trusts) in assets is large, and the asset effect tends to increase. Borrowing system such as credit and various loans is enriched. For this reason, debt easily, personal consumption (65% → 70% in the past 20 years) expands, the savings rate decreases year by year (7% → 1% in past 20 years). In the last twenty years, financial assets have quadrupled and housing valuations tripled. Meanwhile, the liability gradually increased year by year, but the assets (financial assets + housing appraisal value) increased significantly more than the increase in liabilities.
  49. Overseas companies own 50% of US Treasury bonds. Foreign mortgage holds 50% of German government bonds and 30% of UK bonds.
  50. Trends in the global market (development of IT contributed): ① Globalization: instantaneous access to markets around the world → linkage of the world market is enhanced. ② Cross-marketing: Instantaneous access to stocks, bonds, currency exchange, products → Increase linkage between stocks, bonds, currencies and products. ③ Complexity: Development of derivative financial instruments → Increase of linkage between in-kind and derivatives, price fluctuation becomes complicated and large scale.
  51. Consumer price inflation rate in the world: 9.7% in the 1970s, 5.7% in the 1980s, 2.6% in the 1990s
  52. Birth rate of each country: 1.19 in Korea, 1.30 in Italy, 1.37 in Japan, 1.38 in Germany, 1.40 in Spain, 1.40 in Spain, 1.8 to 1.9 in Scandinavian countries, 1.96 in the UK , France 2.02
  53. Intra-regional trade ratio: EU 58% (1990), 62% (2005), NAFTA 38% (1990), 42% (2005), East Asia 43% (1990) 55% (2005)
  54. China: The savings rate of individuals is high, and the savings rate of companies (retained earnings) is also high.
  55. Jobless Recovery: The period from the valley of the economy until the number of employees turns to increase is increasing year by year. This trend is prominent in the US in the 70, 80, 90, 00's. Two years when the last recession. Reason: rationalization through introduction of IT, because new employment does not progress due to surplus labor force enthusiastic at booming economy.
  56. In East Asia, intra-regional trade has been expanding in the division of labor between processes that share parts manufacturing and assembly in various places. We export electronic parts, materials and capital goods (machine tools, semiconductor manufacturing equipment etc.) from Japan to Korea Taiwan. Korea Taiwan manufactures liquid crystal panels, semiconductors, etc. using it and exports it to China. It is assembled into the final product (home electronics etc.) in China and exported to the final consumption region, Europe and the United States.
  57. Leading global economy: Korea, Taiwan economy first, followed by the Japanese economy, then the US economy, finally the European economy
  58. US recession: 43 months at the time of the Great Depression, after the Great Depression, the economic recession is 12 times, the period is 8 to 16 months, the average is 10 months.
  59. Scale of the automobile industry: Production volume: 10 million units in the US, 20 million units in the EU, 10 million units in Japan
  60. Ratio of production value to GDP: 4% in the US, 5% in the EU, 10% in Japan
  61. Ratio of manufacturing industry to GDP: Japan 21%, US 12%
  62. Ratio of product exports to products: Japan 16%, US 12%
  63. Ratio of parts imports to production: Japan 10%, USA 24%
  64. When comparing labor productivity between Japan and the US, Japan is higher in export-oriented industries, and Japan is lower in domestic demand type nonmanufacturing industry. The reason is that Japan is high due to the fact that IT investment is delayed in domestic demand type nonmanufacturers, that there are many small businesses, the quality of service (24 hours sales, time designated delivery, etc.) is high, disadvantage in calculation of labor productivity It is cited that it is easy to become.
  65. In emerging countries, savings growth is outpacing domestic investment growth. If the supply of funds (savings) exceeds the demand for funds (investment), it will be low and low interest rates. Surplus funds hate low interest rates, and funds flow into high-interest products and generate bubbles.
  66. The nominal GDP ratio of the US budget deficit is highly correlated with the nominal effective exchange rate of the dollar. Expansion of the fiscal deficit leads to a weaker dollar due to the lower credibility of US Treasuries.
  67. The U.S. economy has a high proportion of service industries such as healthcare, and even in recession, consuming related to healthcare does not go away. Therefore, it is difficult for GDP growth rate to become negative.
  68. Foreign direct investment balance GDP ratio: Japan 3%, USA 14%, Germany 17%, UK 35 - 45%
  69. There are many annual rate conversion indicators in the United States. In China, due to delay in the development of statistics, in principle, compared with the same period of the previous year will be used.
  70. The US recession after the war (excluding subprime recession) is 7 times and the economic recession period is 6 months to 16 months.
  71. During the Great Depression, recession period 43 months
  72. US consumer spending: accounting for 20% of world GDP. Consumption per capita is 1.5 times that of Japan
  73. FRB emphasizes PCE excluding energy and food.
  74. Economic Outlook for IMF, World Bank, Government, BOJ, FRB, ECB
  75. Corporate effective tax rate (national tax + local tax) Japan 40.7%, the United States 40%, Germany 29%
  76. Percentage of personal consumption in GDP Japan 55%, US 70%, China 40%
  77. US housing demand is a leading indicator of new car sales. Purchase by borrowing by home collateral (car loan) is mainstream.
  78. US under-savings + current account deficit → expanding external debt + capital account surplus
  79. In the US, the savings rate (consumption / disposable income) is reduced to zero by the asset effect due to the rise in prices of stocks and real estate.