Paper #1240

Título:

Japan's lost decade: Does money have a role?

Autores:

Fabio Canova y Tobias Menz

Fecha:

Noviembre 2009

Resumen:

We study the contribution of the stock of money to the macroeconomic outcomes of the 1990s in Japan using a small scale structural model. Likelihood-based estimates of the parameters are provided and time stabilities of the structural relationships analyzed. Real balances are statistically important for output and inflation fluctuations and their role has changed over time. Models which give money no role give a distorted representation of the sources of cyclical fluctuations. The severe stagnation and the long deflation are driven by different causes.

Palabras clave:

Money, Japan’s Lost decade, structural model, deflation.

Códigos JEL:

E31, E32, E52.

Área de investigación:

Macroeconomía y Economía Internacional

Publicado en:

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 24(2), 178-195, 2010

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