The case for price level or inflation targeting--What happened to monetary policy effectiveness during the Japanese disinflation?

Aaron Nikolai Mehrotra ()

Japan and the World Economy, 2009, vol. 21, issue 3, pages 280-291

Abstract: This paper examines whether price level or inflation targeting would have been appropriate policy choices for Japan during its disinflation and deflation period. We employ Markov switching and structural vector autoregressions, together with structural IS equations, to investigate monetary policy effectiveness during the Japanese disinflation. We find evidence of regime switching in the mid-1990s in a model including the nominal policy interest rate. When monetary policy shocks are identified by using the McCallum rule for monetary base, a monetary expansion is found to have a statistically significant impact on prices. Moreover, a lower real ex ante interest rate can still stimulate the economy despite the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates.

Keywords: Monetary; policy; Disinflation; Deflation; Price; level; targeting; Inflation; targeting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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