Monetary and Economic Studies
2003
- Vol.21, No.4 / December 2003
- Vol.21, No.3 / October 2003
- Vol.21, No.2 / August 2003
- Vol.21, No.1 / February 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.
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Vol.21, No.4 / December 2003
Author(s) | Title/Keywords | Full Text (PDF) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |