What does the Bank of Japan do to East Asia?

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 253-270

  Maćkowiak, Bartosz ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beggar thy neighbor; East Asia; Japan; Monetary policy shocks; Sign restrictions; Spillover effects; Structural vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

BANKING; MACROECONOMICS; MONETARY POLICY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33747805902     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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