The paper analyses the reasons for Japan’s persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … prices and goods with prices controlled by the government we show that inflation in Japan has been kept low by mainly three …

Few papers have tried to project how Chinese monetary policy will behave under flexible exchange rates. As Japan … provides an important role model for China, this paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate for Japanese monetary … policy after the shift of Japan from a fixed to a floating exchange rate regime. The econometric estimations allow for regime …

reduce China's trade surplus but could cause serious deflation in China. To show this, we consider international adjustment … between China and the United States from both an asset-market and a labor-market perspective, and compare this to Japan …China keeps its exchange rate tightly fixed to the dollar. Its productivity growth and trade surplus have been high …

estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of … the euro. Real economic growth as well as median wage developments are reexamined in light of the alternative inflation …

The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … prices and goods with prices controlled by the government we show that inflation in Japan has been kept low by mainly three …

Since 2004, China has been backed into a situation where the renminbi is expected to go ever higher against the dollar ….S. dollar, the resulting monetary explosion in China contributes to the worldwide increase in primary commodity priceswith … excess liquidity reminiscent of the global inflation generated by the weak dollar in the 1970s. …

Few papers have tried to project how Chinese monetary policy will behave under flexible exchange rates. As Japan … provides an important role model for China, this paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate for Japanese monetary … policy after the shift of Japan from a fixed to a floating exchange rate regime. The econometric estimations allow for regime …

stability. To contain domestic inflation these central banks absorb rather then provide liquidity in their regular monetary … policy operations. Based on an augmented Barro-Gordon framework we show that inflation targeting within an environment of … implementing sterilization costs into the central bank's objective function the inflation bias increases. …

China has been provoked into speeding renmnibi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial … repression in domestic interest rates to avoid an avalanche of foreign capital inflows that would threaten inflation and asset … could attract even more hot money inflows, the People's Bank of China should focus on tightly stabilizing the yuan/ dollar …