This paper estimates the effects of monetary policy on real economic activity and prices in Japan, during the last three decades when the effective lower bound (ELB) on interest rates was occasionally binding. To identify monetary policy shocks, we use the monetary policy surprises from the...

We estimate a small-scale nonlinear DSGE model with the zero lower bound (ZLB) of the nominal interest rate for Japan, where the ZLB has constrained the country's monetary policy for a considerably long period. We employ the time iteration with linear interpolation method to solve equilibrium...