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Monetary and Economic Studies

2003

Monetary and Economic Studies is published each year, by the Bank of Japan's Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies (IMES). In line with IMES policy, the publication seeks to provide information on monetary and economic issues to the general public. Articles include research achievements by the staff and visiting scholars, and selected works from the proceedings of conferences sponsored by IMES.

Views expressed in Monetary and Economic Studies are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Bank of Japan or IMES.

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Vol.21, No.4 / December 2003

Author(s) Title/Keywords Full Text (PDF)
David Andolfatto Monetary Implications of the Hayashi-Prescott Hypothesis for Japan
/Productivity slowdown; Money multiplier; Monetary policy; Liquidity trap		 178 KB
Hiroshi Fujiki, Kiyoshi Watanabe Effects of External Debt on Domestic Resource Allocation in a Small Open Economy with Limited Access to the World Capital Market
/External debt; Two-sector economic models		 272 KB
Sachiko Kuroda, Isamu Yamamoto The Impact of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity on the Unemployment Rate: Quantitative Evidence from Japan
/Downward nominal wage rigidity; Unemployment rate; Inflation rate; Monetary policy; General equilibrium model with downward nominal wage rigidity		 251 KB
Eisaku Ide Policy Debates on Public Finance between the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan from 1930 to 1936
/Direct underwriting of deficit-financing bonds by the BOJ (BOJ underwriting); Joint Research Committee; Currency system; Market operation by selling government bonds; Continuing expenditure; Deferred fiscal burden		 142 KB

Vol.21, No.3 / October 2003

Author(s) Title/Keywords Full Text (PDF)
Makoto Saito, Shigenori Shiratsuka Precautionary Motives versus Waiting Options: Evidence from Aggregate Household Saving in Japan
/Precautionary savings; Waiting options; Flexibility; Risks; Resolution of uncertainty		 184 KB
Keiko Murata Precautionary Savings and Income Uncertainty: Evidence from Japanese Micro Data
/Precautionary savings; Uncertainty; Income risks; Uncertainty over public pension benefits; Risk-sharing; Individual data; Longitudinal data		 233 KB
Akira Otani, Shigenori Shiratsuka, Toyoichiro Shirota The Decline in the Exchange Rate Pass-Through: Evidence from Japanese Import Prices
/Exchange rate pass-through; Pricing-to-market; Import structure; Expenditure-switching effect; Firms' sourcing decision		 244 KB
Tatsuya Ishikawa, Yasuhiro Yamai, Akira Ieda On the Risk Capital Framework of Financial Institutions
/Risk capital; Risk management; Capital structure; Capital budgeting; Risk-adjusted rate of return; Capital allocation; Deadweight cost		 177 KB

Vol.21, No.2 / August 2003

Author(s) Title/Keywords Full Text (PDF)
Sachiko Kuroda, Isamu Yamamoto Are Japanese Nominal Wages Downwardly Rigid? (Part I): Examinations of Nominal Wage Change Distributions
/Downward nominal wage rigidity; Inflation rate; Monetary policy; Longitudinal data; Nominal wage change distributions		 218 KB
Sachiko Kuroda, Isamu Yamamoto Are Japanese Nominal Wages Downwardly Rigid? (Part II): Examinations Using a Friction Model
/Downward nominal wage rigidity; Inflation rate; Monetary policy; Longitudinal data; Measurement errors; Friction model; Simulated maximum likelihood		 275 KB
Toshitaka Sekine, Keiichiro Kobayashi, Yumi Saita Forbearance Lending: The Case of Japanese Firms
/Forbearance lending; Nonperforming loan; Dynamic GMM		 195 KB
Yasuo Hirose, Koichiro Kamada A New Technique for Simultaneous Estimation of Potential Output and the Phillips Curve
/Potential output; Phillips curve; Hodrick-Prescott filter		 180 KB
Masahiro Fukuhara, Yasufumi Saruwatari An Analysis of Contagion in Emerging Currency Markets Using Multivariate Extreme Value Theory
/Contagion; Multivariate extreme value theory; Emerging market currencies		 167 KB

Vol.21, No.1 / February 2003

Author(s) Title/Keywords Full Text (PDF)
Kyungho Jang, Masao Ogaki The Effects of Japanese Monetary Policy Shocks on Exchange Rates: A Structural Vector Error Correction Model Approach
/Vector error correction model; Impulse response; Monetary policy shock; Cointegration; Identification; Long-run restriction		 246 KB
Toshiaki Watanabe Measuring Business Cycle Turning Points in Japan with a Dynamic Markov Switching Factor Model
/Business cycles; Factor model; Gibbs sampling; Marginal likelihood; Markov switching; Particle filter		 267 KB
Sachiko Kuroda Analysis of Changes in Japan's Unemployment Rate Using Gross Flow Data
/Unemployment rate; Flow data analysis; Discouraged worker effect; Added worker effect; Price-level projections using Phillips curve		 285 KB
Tomiyuki Kitamura, Ryoji Koike The Effectiveness of Forecasting Methods Using Multiple Information Variables
/Information variable; Multivariate forecast; Out-of-sample forecast; Forecast combination		 435 KB
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