The Bank of Japan adopted the Quantitative Easing (QE) Policy from March 2001 to March 2006. This paper investigates whether or not this QE had an effect in stimulating real economy in Japan. The identification of policy effect in the above Japanese case enables us to evaluate indirectly the...

This paper examines the performance of inflation targeting (IT) focusing on East Asian emerging market economies, by estimating policy reaction functions for verifying the linkage between IT adoption and monetary policy, and also estimating impulse responses of prices to policy shock. Our...