The Role of Monetary Policy in Japan: A Break in the 1990s?

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 366-384

  Miyao, Ryuzo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Monetary policy shocks; Structural break; Vector autoregressive analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009935686     PISSN: 08891583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jjie.2000.0454     Document Type: Article

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