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Japan has experienced stagnation, deflation, and low interest rates for decades. It is caught in a liquidity trap. This … paper examines Japan's liquidity trap in light of the structure and performance of the country's economy since the onset of … understanding Japan's liquidity trap but also for formulating and implementing policies that can overcome the liquidity trap and …
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Japan has experienced stagnation, deflation, and low interest rates for decades. It is caught in a liquidity trap. This … paper examines Japan's liquidity trap in light of the structure and performance of the country's economy since the onset of … understanding Japan's liquidity trap but also for formulating and implementing policies that can overcome the liquidity trap and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784652
The 1998 stylized model of Krugman constituted a ground-breaking contribution explaining the long lasting Japanese stagnation as the consequence of a "liquidity trap" situation featuring a negative natural interest rate. Our critique to such a proposal will focus on three aspects. First, we will...
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interest rates as experienced in Japan since the mid-1990s. Our analysis is based on an estimated model of Japan, the United … impact of the zero bound on the effectiveness of interest rate policy in Japan in terms of stabilizing output and inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765351
Japan has been in a benign liquidity trap since 1990. In a benign liquidity trap, interest rates approach zero, prices … macro theories. This paper introduces a monetary general equilibrium model that is compatible with Japan’s performance and …
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) for the design of monetary policy in Japan. Similar to findings in other studies, targeting rates of inflation lower than …
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interest rates as experienced in Japan since the mid-1990s. Our analysis is based on an estimated model of Japan, the United … impact of the zero bound on the effectiveness of interest rate policy in Japan in terms of stabilizing output and inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320036
This paper assesses the importance of the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates for the interest-rate channel of monetary policy. We simulate several interest-rate setting policy rules with either high or low inflation targets. We determine the extent to which the zero bound prevents real...
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the effect of an exogenous monetary impulse on output based on the data from Japan. The conditional impulse response …
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This paper presents a welfare analysis of a desirable Inflation Targeting Policy in order to achieve price stabilization and an efficient level of output under a deflationary economy. Concretely, we present a general model that can treat the components of a Inflation Targeting Policy, such as...
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