This short paper is an abbreviated version of Nishizaki et al (2012). Japan has suffered from long-lasting but mild … paper examines a long list of these structural features that may explain Japan's chronic deflation.Full publication: "http …

The Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan corporate bond purchase programs in response to the COVID-19 crisis primarily … target bonds with five years or less remaining to maturity. This paper documents evidence suggesting that firms in Japan, but … strikingly, in Japan, there is a large and disproportionate reduction in issuance of bonds maturing in seven years, a previously …

within a narrow vision of the world as divided into distinct political, social and economic spheres. Our goal in this article … one that has captivated academics and practitioners alike: Why did the market respond so powerfully to Bank of Japan …

The paper aims at explaining why the Bank of Japan has not adopted inflation targeting, despite calls for such a policy …. Disclosed minutes of the Monetary Policy Meetings of the Bank of Japan, after March 1998, as well as Speeches by its members … give clues to changing reasons against inflation targeting. Inflation targeting was not adopted in Japan in the early years …

Analysis suggests that Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy has been insufficiently expansionary for over a decade; that the BOJ … optimizing model indicates that such a policy would probably increase Japan's net imports. The BOJ Law presents some difficulties …

The price level is falling in Japan. To end deflation, the Bank of Japan should move to a strategy of actively creating …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze sustainability issues of Japan%u2019s fiscal policy and then to discuss the … authority of Japan because it has accumulated the debt outstanding much more than other countries …