Thus, with those structural challenges in mind, I would like to think about the future course of Japan's economy. Since this October, the Bank of Japan has started to release "Outlook and Risk Assessment of the Economy and Prices."
Second, there are serious limitations on the data available to researchers, and thus any useful discussion of an analytic agenda for research on financial industry structure must include an agenda for overcoming proprietary and other constraints on developing appropriate data sources. For example, data on the use of a variety of financial services by specific customers is generally unavailable to researchers.