Chapter 1 Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy and Inflation Target -- Chapter 2 Central Bank Independence under Changing Environment -- Chapter 3 Japanese Experiences in International Comparison -- Afterword.

This paper studies the determinants of size differentials between fiscal multipliers in countries around the world, both advanced and developing economies. Besides domestic conditions and exchange rate regimes, we also introduce variables not before considered for explaining multiplier size...

Lee and Chinn (2006) and Chinn and Lee (2009) decomposed current account and real exchange rate into temporary and permanent shocks and argued that a temporary shock creates the combination of a current account surplus (deficit) and real exchange rate depreciation (appreciation). This paper...

This paper provides a historical case study in pre-modern era which shows that financial market stability is a necessary condition for an effective macroeconomic policy. We explore the implications on the rice market interventions as a tool of the macroeconomic policy in Japan's early 19th...

A veteran finance minister, Takahashi Korekiyo, brought an early recovery for Japan from the Great Depression of the 1930s by prescribing a combination of expansionary fiscal, exchange rate, and monetary policies. To explore the comprehensive transmission mechanism of Takahashi's macroeconomic...

type="main" <p>The present paper uses Japanese firm-level data to investigate the effects of monetary policy on stock. The main purpose of this paper is to examine whether monetary policy has heterogeneous effects on stock returns and whether such heterogeneity can be explained by existing theories...</p>