This paper focuses on the economic foreign policies explored by major organizations and countries at G20 Financial Summit held in London on April 2, 2009. This is the 2nd summit after the first meeting in November 2008. The presence of G20 over G8 has strengthened increasingly as a major...

Prior to the occurrence of the global financial crisis, the world had faced the “global imbalance.” This refers to the growing US current account deficit and, in parallel, the growing current account surpluses in China, other Asian countries, and resource-rich nations. This status of...

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...