2003 Best Paper on the Japanese Economy Award

J. Japanese Int. Economies 19 (2005) 163 www.elsevier.com/locate/jjie

Announcement

2003 Best Paper on the Japanese Economy Award

The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies is pleased to announce the winner of the 2003 Best Paper on the Japanese Economy: “Monitoring the monitors: are old boys networks being used to monitor japanese private banks?” Adrian A.R.J.M. van Rixtel and Wolter H.J. Hassink [Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 16, Number 1 (March 2002), pp. 1–30] The Best Paper on the Japanese Economy Award is given each year to the article published in the preceding volume of JJIE that has made the most significant contribution to our understanding of the Japanese economy. Takeo Hoshi Editor-in-Chief

0889-1583/2005 Published by Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/S0889-1583(05)00011-0