Structural reforms in the liquidity trap need not be deflationary. This paper develops a simple framework to study the … role that key characteristics of Japan's labor and product markets-labor-market duality and weak corporate governance … reforms may contribute to Japan's short-run goal of reflating the economy. It finds that boosting inflation with structural …

a large extent. But in Germany, wages have increased below this norm or even decreased, and in Japan this effect has … been even more extreme. Overall, while Japan and Germany have suffered from dysfunctional economic regimes leading to low …