has income inequality been higher than it is today in Japan, and in the OECD area. The two challenges have some common … facilitate the closure of non-viable firms, whose survival hampers the growth of viable firms in Japan. This would also increase … the 2017 OECD Economic Survey of Japan (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-japan.htm) …

This paper highlights exchange-traded funds (ETF) purchases conducted by the Bank of Japan under Quantitative and …

The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … creation in Japan's post-bubble period. With the price level being assumed to be dependent on both goods with free market …