Japanese Monetary Policy

Kenneth J. Singleton

"How has the Bank of Japan (BOJ) helped shape Japan's economic growth during the past two decades? This book comprehensively explores the relations between financial market liberalization and BOJ policies and examines the ways in which these policies promoted economic growth in the 1980s. The authors argue that the structure of Japan's financial markets, particularly restrictions on money market transactions and the key role of commercial banks in financing corporate investments, allowed the BOJ to influence Japan's economic success."--BOOK JACKET. "The first two chapters critically evaluate the BOJ's daily operating procedures, the primary instruments of monetary policy, and the mechanisms by which the BOJ is believed to affect economic growth. The authors pay particular attention to the coincidence of the liberalization of financial markets and the evolution of monetary policy, as...

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