This paper uses vector autoregressions to examine the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan. The empirical results …

liquidity risk. We find that, during Japan''s deflationary period, firms with more liquid balance sheets were less exposed to …

What caused Asia's largest economy, once the envy of the world, to lag behind many of the other industrial countries …? And why did it take so long for Japan to recover from the bursting of its asset price bubble of the late 1980s? In this … volume, a team from the International Monetary Fund examines the causes of the lingering economic problems of Japan, the …

Japan showed strong economic recovery from the crisis. Executive Directors welcomed the development and stressed the … Bank of Japan’s monetary framework is well suited to the post deflation environment and welcomed the improvement in …

commodities that are traded between Japan and its East Asian trading partners to investigate the response of tradable goods prices … customs data for the period 1988-98, it shows that price pass-through is much larger for exports from Japan than for imports … to Japan …

(ZIF) for the design of monetary policy in Japan. Similar to findings in other studies, targeting rates of inflation lower …

the official infrastructure supporting corporate restructuring in Japan. This study evaluates the stock price impact of …

Japan's revitalization plan, dubbed the "three arrows of Abenomics," devises a three-pronged strategy-combining fiscal …

several insights about the way to manage such a transition and the downsides to avoid. In particular Japan offers useful … by Japan …