1st Edition

Unconventional Monetary Policy and Financial Stability The Case of Japan

Edited By Alexis Stenfors, Jan Toporowski Copyright 2020
216 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Since the financial crisis of 2008-09, central bankers around the world have been forced to abandon conventional monetary policy tools in favour of unconventional policies such as quantitative easing, forward guidance, lowering the interest rate paid on bank reserves into negative territory, and pushing up prices of government bonds. Having faced a crisis in its banking sector nearly a decade... Read more

Preface
CHARLES A. E. GOODHART

Introduction
ALEXIS STENFORS AND JAN TOPOROWSKI

1) The Japan Premium and the first stage of the monetary transmission mechanism
ALEXIS STENFORS

2) The foreign currency swap market: A perspective from policymakers
MASAAKI SHIRAKAWA

3) The effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy on Japanese bank lending
HEATHER MONTGOMERY AND ULRICH VOLZ

4) Japanese banks in the international money markets
MIMOZA SHABANI, ALEXIS STENFORS AND JAN TOPOROWSKI

5) The Japanese balance sheet recession 20 Years on: Abenomics – economic revival or corporate financialisation?
KONSTANTIN BIKAS, EWA KARWOWSKI AND MIMOZA SHABANI

6) An analysis of the impact of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy on Japanese government bonds’ low nominal yields
TANWEER AKRAM AND HUIQING LI

7) Unconventional monetary policy announcements and Japanese bank stocks
AYHAN NADIRI

8) Bank of Japan and the ETF market
MASAYUKI SUSAI AND HO YAN KAREN WONG

9) Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing, negative interest rates and the stability of the financial system in Japan
ETSUKO KATSU

Biography

Alexis Stenfors is Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS University of London, UK.