The effects of the bank of Japan's zero interest rate commitment and quantitative monetary easing on the yield curve: A macro-finance approach

Japanese Economic Review

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 303-328

  Oda, Nobuyuki ^a   Ueda, Kazuo ^b  

^a Bank of Japan ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCE; INTEREST RATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 34547776302     PISSN: 13524739     EISSN: 14685876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2007.00422.x     Document Type: Article

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