This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide …

the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems … liquidity management issues more generally …

Prevalent thinking about liquidity traps suggests that the perfect substitutability of money and bonds at a zero short … benefits and facilitate the use of powerful fiscal policy tools even in a liquidity trap. In this paper, we consider an … alternative approach that has been suggested for use in a liquidity trap, a scheduled increase in consumption tax rates. We find …

during the period of Japan's bubble economy and subsequent stagnation. The yen experienced epic gyrations over that period … the price of oil. Since the mid-1990s, the yen's real exchange rate has generally followed a depreciating trend and Japan …

effects can arise, so that less liquidity and a higher cost for finance can reinforce each other in a contagious spiral. I … document the remarkable rise in the premium that investors placed on liquidity during the crisis. Next, I show how these issues …