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 … high inflation to a low-growth period with exceptionally low inflation since the early 1990s. We show based on a stylized …

), inflation and money supply growth, while oft studied, is one that remains unclear. We argue that the nature of the relation …. Notably, a predominantly negative correlation with bond yields and inflation becomes positive, while the opposite is true for … power switches temporarily to positive around economic shocks. This suggests that higher yields, inflation and money growth …