Monetary Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates in Japan
This paper uses Japanese data to investigate the relationship between monetary policy and the yield curve. We find that the response of the yield curve depends in an important way on the maintained hypothesis about how monetary policy affects the economy. Under the liquidity effect maintained hypothesis monetary policy only has transient effects on the yield curve. Under the costly price adjustment maintained hypothesis, however, monetary policy has large and persistent effects on yields of all maturities.
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2006
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Authors: | Braun, R. Anton ; Shioji, Etsuro |
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. - Blackwell Publishing. - Vol. 38.2006, 1, p. 141-162
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Blackwell Publishing |
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