Quantitative Easing: A Rationale and Some Evidence from Japan

Volker Wieland

No 15565, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper reviews the rationale for quantitative easing when central bank policy rates reach near zero levels in light of recent announcements regarding direct asset purchases by the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. Empirical evidence from the previous period of quantitative easing in Japan between 2001 and 2006 is presented. During this earlier period the Bank of Japan was able to expand the monetary base very quickly and significantly. Quantitative easing translated into a greater and more lasting expansion of M1 relative to nominal GDP. Deflation subsided by 2005. As soon as inflation appeared to stabilize near a rate of zero, the Bank of Japan rapidly reduced the monetary base as a share of nominal income as it had announced in 2001. The Bank was able to exit from extensive quantitative easing within less than a year. Some implications for the current situation in Europe and the United States are discussed.

JEL-codes: E31 E52 E58 E61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-12
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Published as Volker Wieland, 2010. "Quantitative Easing: A Rationale and Some Evidence from Japan," NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 6(1), pages 354 - 366.
Published as Quantitative Easing: A Rationale and Some Evidence from Japan , Volker Wieland. in NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009 , Reichlin and West. 2010

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