QUANTITATIVE EASING POLICY, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY BY INDUSTRY IN JAPAN FROM 2001 TO 2006

Hiroyuki Ijiri and Yoichi Matsubayashi
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Hiroyuki Ijiri: ��Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Okayama Shoka University, 2-10-1 Tsushimakyoumachi, Kita-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama 700-8601, Japan‡Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, 2-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
Yoichi Matsubayashi: ��Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, 2-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2023, vol. 68, issue 01, 1-28

Abstract: This study empirically investigates the dynamic effects of Japan’s quantitative easing (QE) policy on industry-specific business activity using a time-varying parameter model and monthly data spanning 2001–2006. This model yields more reliable and precise results than earlier fixed effects models using quarterly data. The first major finding is that the effect of QE on yen–dollar exchange rates varied during the sampled period and is most evident in the final phases, whereas its effect on stock prices persisted almost continuously. Second, QE’s effect on Japan’s real economy — i.e., on industrial production — varies by industry and over time. Most notably, QE raised production via yen–dollar depreciation in the machinery sector (e.g., general and transport machinery) and the sector including chemicals, non-ferrous metals and iron and steel during its latter phases. This study is the first to investigate how unconventional monetary policy influences Japan’s real economy by analyzing the real exchange rate during the second half of QE implementation in Japan.

Keywords: Quantitative easing (QE) policy; Time-varying parameter vector autoregressive (TVP-VAR) model; exchange rates; stock prices; export (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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