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Policy Making in Deflationary Japan

Policy Making in Deflationary Japan Abstract The prolonged recession and deflation in Japan since 1990 presents novel problems to economists. The recession was certainly triggered by real factors such as the slowing down of capacity growth. At the same time, it was aggravated by the monetary contraction in the early 1990s and the inability of the monetary policy to cope with deflation, a fortiori a monetary phenomenon. With the zero-bound interest rate, traditional monetary policy is of limited effect, and unconventional monetary policy, such as inflation (or price-level) targeting, should be employed instead, in order to change the persistent deflationary expectations in the public. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Japanese Economic Review Springer Journals

Policy Making in Deflationary Japan

The Japanese Economic Review , Volume 55 (3): 19 – Sep 1, 2004

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
2004 Japanese Economic Association
ISSN
1352-4739
eISSN
1468-5876
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-5876.2004.0301n.x
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Abstract

Abstract The prolonged recession and deflation in Japan since 1990 presents novel problems to economists. The recession was certainly triggered by real factors such as the slowing down of capacity growth. At the same time, it was aggravated by the monetary contraction in the early 1990s and the inability of the monetary policy to cope with deflation, a fortiori a monetary phenomenon. With the zero-bound interest rate, traditional monetary policy is of limited effect, and unconventional monetary policy, such as inflation (or price-level) targeting, should be employed instead, in order to change the persistent deflationary expectations in the public.

Journal

The Japanese Economic ReviewSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 2004

Keywords: economics, general; microeconomics; macroeconomics/monetary economics//financial economics; econometrics; development economics; economic history

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