The Bank of Japan introduced its Fund-Provisioning Measure to Support Strengthening the Foundations for Economic Growth in June 2010, in order to provide support, from the financial side, for private financial institutions' initiatives to strengthen the foundations for economic growth. The Bank...

Two years have passed since the Bank of Japan introduced quantitative and qualitative monetary easing (QQE) in April 2013. This article considers attempts to assess the effects of QQE on Japan's economic and financial developments during this period. The start of the transmission mechanism of...