English Abstract: In this paper, we show that there was a rapid expansion of housing credit in Japan after 1970 and … then consider what benefits and costs the rapid expansion of housing credit conferred on Japanese households and whether it … was, on balance, a good thing or a bad thing for them. On the one hand, the rapid expansion of housing credit made it …

on the impact of population aging on the household saving rate. The data sources we use for this analysis are the “Family …

Lehman shock gcredit easingh policy, but their policy includes both aspects of credit easing and QE. The results of the …