This paper is an analysis of Japan’s credit channel. The economic condition has no hindrance, but credit demand showed … aspects act as an impediment to credit control. The Executive Board expects restructuring of financial policies in government …-affiliated institutions, promotion of electronic registrations, risk-based financing, and reinforcing bank administrations. The Board takes up …

micro-entrepreneurs, with credit unions providing mostly consumer finance and an underdeveloped microfinance sector. The … authorities aim to develop a micro-credit act to make it mandatory for multilateral investment funds (MIFs) to register, and to … sufficient coordination, and the partial credit guarantee scheme needs to be revamped. It also operates a partial credit …

Banks lacks sufficient autonomy and independence while the current legal framework fails to effectively protect either bank …

; monetary and exchange rate developments; the use of monetary instruments; and commercial banking sector developments and bank …

indicate that the banking system is relatively resilient to the direct effects of individual shocks, with credit risk having …

procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have … new cross-country evidence on how they influence real private bank credit growth. Our results show that these instruments …