Structural reforms in the liquidity trap need not be deflationary. This paper develops a simple framework to study the … role that key characteristics of Japan's labor and product markets-labor-market duality and weak corporate governance … reforms may contribute to Japan's short-run goal of reflating the economy. It finds that boosting inflation with structural …

States, the United Kingdom, Euro area and Japan-the Systemic Four-on global monetary and liquidity conditions. Overall, the … countries on these conditions in other countries. UMPMs of the Bank of Japan have positive association with global liquidity but …

) effects of the Bank of Japan (BOJ)'s JGB purchases on market liquidity. Moreover, we also find evidence that such scarcity …Quantitative easing could improve market liquidity through many channels such as relaxing bank funding constraints …, increasing risk appetite, and facilitating trades. However, it can also reduce market liquidity when the increase in the central …