Is the Japanese economy in a liquidity trap?

Economics Letters

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-23

  Hondroyiannis, George ^a   Swamy, P A V B ^b   Tavlas, George S ^a  

^a BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

^b OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

C20; E41; Liquidity trap; Money demand; Random coefficient estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034406131     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(99)00182-2     Document Type: Article

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