expansion counteracts a crisis triggered by a preceding overinvestment boom, it paralyzes growth in the long term, as Japan …

The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … creation in Japan's post-bubble period. With the price level being assumed to be dependent on both goods with free market …

The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the … characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary … well as gradual real income losses, the economic policy implication for Japan and Europe is the timely exit from the …

This paper presents an analysis of the impact of the Bank of Japan's low-interest rate policy on the banking sector in … the Bank of Japan's monetary policy on banks' technical efficiency. The estimation results provide evidence that the …

between China and the United States from both an asset-market and a labor-market perspective, and compare this to Japan …

Few papers have tried to project how Chinese monetary policy will behave under flexible exchange rates. As Japan … policy after the shift of Japan from a fixed to a floating exchange rate regime. The econometric estimations allow for regime … soften the appreciation pressure by interest rate cuts have led Japan into the liquidity trap. …

This paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate in the Bank of Japan?s monetary policy reaction function …