Monetary Policy and the Lost Decade : Lessons from Japan /

This paper investigates how monetary policy can help ward off a protracted deflationary slump when policy rates are near the zero bound by studying the experience of Japan during the "Lost Decade" which followed the asset-price bubble collapse in the early 1990s. Estimation results based o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Leigh, Daniel
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/232
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF