In this overview of the Symposium papers, we note that the bubble that occurred in Japan's asset markets in the late … 1980s came at a time when the conventional indicators of Japan's economic performance were relatively stable. Following the … collapse of the bubble, neither the Bank of Japan (BOJ) nor the Ministry of Finance (MOF) took timely and effective measures to …

Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The NCC's? Unprecedented … Trapsx and the New Bank of Japan -- Challenges Facing Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan -- References -- Index. …