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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812447703321

Autore

Leigh Daniel

Titolo

Monetary Policy and the Lost Decade : : Lessons from Japan / / Daniel Leigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-8401-3

1-4527-8234-2

1-282-84433-4

9786612844331

1-4518-7379-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

33 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

339.5;339.530952

Soggetti

Monetary policy - Japan - Econometric models

Deflation (Finance) - Japan - Econometric models

Anti-inflationary policies - Japan - Econometric models

Banks and Banking

Inflation

Money and Monetary Policy

Production and Operations Management

Monetary Policy

Price Level

Deflation

Macroeconomics: Production

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Monetary economics

Macroeconomics

Banking

Inflation targeting

Output gap

Central bank policy rate

Monetary policy

Prices

Production

Economic theory



Interest rates

Banks and banking

Japan Economic conditions 1989-

Japan Economic policy 1989-

Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"October 2009."

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Empirical Analysis -- A. Model Specification -- B. Model Estimation -- III. Counterfactual Analysis -- IV. Conclusion -- Tables -- 1. Estimation Results -- 2. Actual and Counterfactual Inflation and Output Loss -- Figures -- 1. The Japanese Economy Since 1990 -- 2. Estimation Results: Implicit Inflation Target -- 3. Estimation Results: Natural Rate of Interest -- 4. Estimated Policy-Rate Target and Actual Policy Rate -- 5. Autocorrelation Functions -- 6. Demand and Supply Shocks: 1990-2005 -- 7. Actual and Counterfactual Macroeconomic Dynamics: -- 8. Actual and Counterfactual Macroeconomic Dynamics: -- 9. Actual and Counterfactual Macroeconomic Dynamics: -- 10. Actual and Counterfactual Macroeconomic Dynamics: -- Appendix -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper investigates how monetary policy can help ward off a protracted deflationary slump when policy rates are near the zero bound by studying the experience of Japan during the "Lost Decade" which followed the asset-price bubble collapse in the early 1990s. Estimation results based on a structural model suggest that the Bank of Japan's interest-rate policy fits a conventional forward-looking reaction function with an inflation target of about 1 percent. The disappointing economic performance thus seems primarily due to a series of adverse economic shocks rather than an extraordinary policy error. In addition, counterfactual policy simulations based on the estimated structural model suggest that simply raising the inflation target would not have yielded a lasting improvement in performance. However, a price-targeting rule or a policy rule that combined a higher inflation target with a more aggressive response to output would have achieved superior stabilization results.