Studies using the dynamic panel regression approach have found the speed of income convergence among the world and regional economies to be high. For example, Lee et al. (1997, 1998) report the income convergence speed to be 30% per annum. This note argues that their estimates may be seriously...

Studies using dynamic panel regression approach have found a high speed of income convergence among the world and the regional economies. For example, Lee <italic>et al.</italic> (1997, 1998) report 30% per annum. This note argues that their estimates of the convergence speed can be seriously overstated. Using a...

This paper assesses the effectiveness of unonventional monetary policy on the macro ecnomy. It focuses on the Japanese economy during the Bank of Japan's quantitative easing policy period, and analyzes the effects of monetary policy shocks and systematic monetary policy using the vector...

This article proposes an approach to constructing sentiment lexicons in the financial domain. The approach takes advantages of news bulletins and a given financial variable, such as stock prices, to generate candidates of sentiment expressions by fusing the two data sources. The candidates are...

There are two ways of analyzing the efficacy of fiscal policy: the VAR approach and the nonlinear approach. The important difference between them is that the former assumes a linear effect of fiscal policy whereas the latter assumes a nonlinear effect. However, it has never been tested whether...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Japanese inflation has been relatively stable with slight declines, while output has remained volatile with a prolonged stagnation. This paper attempts to explore possible explanations for these macroeconomic facts based on the aggregate demand and supply...

This paper examines the effects of Japanese monetary policy on individual firm's stock returns. Our objective is to test whether the firm-specific characteristics associated with the theories of monetary transmission mechanism can account for the heterogeneous responses of individual stock...

This paper reports the estimates of a monetary policy reaction function for the Bank of Japan in a data-rich environment. There are two main findings. First, a weak identification problem arises in the estimates under the specifications that some previous works employ, though in a data-rich...