English Abstract: The authors review the availability and allocation of commercial credit in China, the investment options presented to savers and the funding options available to Chinese banks. They highlight the markets intrinsic deficiencies, vast externalities and tremendous potentials for...

The Bank of Japan adopted the Quantitative Easing (QE) Policy from March 2001 to March 2006. This paper investigates whether or not this QE had an effect in stimulating real economy in Japan. The identification of policy effect in the above Japanese case enables us to evaluate indirectly the...