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

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 …

Japan suffered a very high inflation rate in 1973-74. The CPI inflation rate rose to near 30% in 1974, the highest rate … rapid yen appreciation produced political pressure on the Bank of Japan to continue easing. The Bank of Japan came out of … monetary policy should not be overruled or the high inflation would be repeated. By this logic, the Bank of Japan obtained /de …

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 …

of Japan's rhetoric was not helpful in fighting deflation, and the interest rate hike in August 2000 amid deflation was a …

The paper aims at explaining why the Bank of Japan has not adopted inflation targeting, despite calls for such a policy …. Disclosed minutes of the Monetary Policy Meetings of the Bank of Japan, after March 1998, as well as Speeches by its members … give clues to changing reasons against inflation targeting. Inflation targeting was not adopted in Japan in the early years …

This paper investigates whether the Bank of Japan has practiced a monetarist rule since 1975. The Bank of Japan (BOJ …