The Effects of Monetary Policy in Japan

Ryuzo Miyao

No 107, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: This article interprets time series facts regarding the sources of business fluctuations in Japan and attempts to uncover possible characteristics of the effects of monetary policy over the last two decades. It argues that given the institutional features of the Bank of Japan's operating procedures, a simple recursive vector autoregressive (VAR) model that consists of interest rates, money, stock prices and output, all in first differences, may serve as a useful benchmark for Japan. The main finding is that monetary policy shocks in fact have a persistent effect on real output especially in the rise and fall of Japan's "bubble economy" in the late 1980s.

Pages: 16 pages
Date: 1999-12
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