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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449890303321

Autore

Cargill Thomas F

Titolo

Financial policy and central banking in Japan [[electronic resource] /] / Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, Takatoshi Ito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2000

ISBN

0-262-26987-2

1-4237-3071-2

Descrizione fisica

viii, 196 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

HutchisonMichael M

Itò„Takatoshi <1950->

Disciplina

332.1/1/0952

Soggetti

Finance - Japan

Banks and banking, Central - Japan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-189) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Annotation Japan's financial institutions and policy underwent remarkable change in the past decade. The country began the 1990's with a heavily regulated financial system managed by an unchallenged Ministry of Finance and ended the decade with a Big Bang financial market reform, a complete restructuring of its regulatory financial institutions, and an independent central bank. These reforms have taken place amid recession and rising unemployment, collapsing asset prices, a looming banking crisis, and the lowest interest rates in the industrial world. This book analyzes how the bank-dominated financial system--a key element of the oft-heralded "Japanese economic model"--Broke down in the 1990's and spawned sweeping reforms. It documents the sources of the Japanese economic stagnation of the 1990's, the causes of the financial crisis, the slow and initially limited policy response to banking problems, and the reform program that followed. It also evaluates the new financial structure and reforms at the Bank of Japan in light of the challenges facing the Japanese economy. These challenges range from conducting monetary policy in a zero-interest rate environment characterized by a "liquidity trap" to



managing consolidation in the Japanese banking sector against the backdrop of increasing international competition.