In the wake of continued weakness in the Japanese economy and recent market turbulence due to the terrorist attacks in the U.S., the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently increased the intensity of its ...
Quantitative easing (QE) is a non-traditional monetary policy tool used by central banks, particularly when interest rates are already low and cannot be reduced further. It was popularized during the ...
This paper tests whether Japan's key macro policy multipliers have declined since 2013, the year that Japan introduced Qualitative and Quantitative Easing. We use the augmented Blanchard-Perotti ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Over the last year, few global narratives have irked Chinese ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - As the United States and other major economies prepare to combat deflation and recession with interest rates fast approaching zero, a five-year policy experiment in Japan shows ...
Learn how open market operations and quantitative easing differ in scale and purpose, impacting economic growth and monetary ...
On March 19, 2001, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) embarked on an unprecedented monetary policy experiment, commonly referred to as “quantitative easing,” in an attempt to stimulate the nation’s stagnant ...