Since the 2000s, large fluctuations in commodity prices have become a concern among policymakers regarding price stability. This paper investigates the effects of commodity price shocks on headline inflation with a monthly panel consisting of 144 countries. We find that the effects of commodity...

Consumer prices have increased in Japan since the pandemic began, when commodity prices increased worldwide. This study investigates commodity price pass-through into inflation in the low and high inflation regimes in Japan. By estimating the threshold autoregressive model that considers past...

This study examines the two-decade long low interest rate environment in Japan using the Nelson-Siegel yield curve framework. As a possible “Japanification” of bond markets, we found that the decay factor has been declining in Japan for the past two decades, and this decline has been pushing...