When Banks Fail, the Case of Japan

What happens to Main Street when Wall Street fails? Japan expert David Weinstein squeezes a unique data set to answer this question. While in the US you will find data on banks and data on firms separately, in Japan there’s data that links banks and firms — a great opportunity to analyze the damage done by collapsing financial institutions. David Weinstein investigates the Japanese financial crisis during the 1990s to shed light on the US financial crisis today. This is research about Wall Street shaking Main Street — this is new economic thinking