We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy … rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese … that, with minor adjustments, the same specification provides a useful framework for understanding monetary policy in Japan …

rate and the German economy. The results indicate that such effects are large. If Germany keeps its money growth unchanged …

taken into account. Comparisons of Engel curves are also made to households in Great Britain and Germany. Results from …

subsidies on retirement, savings and housing choices in the two countries. Germany faces a particularly pronounced aging process … percent at its peak in 2030. In this respect, changes that are occurring in Germany now may be regarded as indicative for … changes to come in the United States. Retirement, savings and housing behavior differ quite markedly between Germany and the …

Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and …. The most striking contrast in the outcomes of policy is between Japan and Germany in the second oil shock. Both their … Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan each focus on one money target, described by the Bundesbank as a target, and by the Bank of …

instrument and target variables. The time spans examined are 1962-1998 for the U.S. and U.K., and 1972-1998 for Japan. In …