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Vol.22, NoS-1 / December 2004
Vol.22, No.3 / October 2004
Vol.22, No.2 / May 2004
Vol.22, No.1 / March 2004

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Vol.22, No.S-1 / December 2004

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Challenges for Sustained Economic Growth under Changing Economic, Social, and International Environments
Kunio Okina and Shigenori Shiratsuka Introduction
OPENING AND KEYNOTE SPEECHES
Toshihiko Fukui Opening Speech
Bennett T. McCallum Long-Run Monetary Neutrality and Contemporary Policy Analysis
/Superneutrality; Natural-rate hypothesis; Quantity theory of money; Cointegration
Maurice Obstfeld Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and the Exchange Rates of Emerging Economies
/Developing countries; Emerging markets; Convergence; Macroeconomic volatility; Exchange rate regimes; Institutions; Dollarization; Original sin
SESSION 1
William R. Easterly Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture
/Globalization; Trade; Capital flows; Migration; Education; Development
SESSION 2
Franklin Allen and Hiroko Oura Sustained Economic Growth and the Financial System
/Growth; Crises; Bubbles; Contagion; Financial fragility
SESSION 3
Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka Privatizing Social Security: A Political-Economy Approach
/Dependency ratio; Median voter; Privatization; Individual saving accounts
SESSION 4
Kunio Okina and Shigenori Shiratsuka Asset Price Fluctuations, Structural Adjustments, and Sustained Economic Growth: Lessons from Japan's Experience since the Late 1980s
/Asset price bubble; Relative price changes; Structural adjustments; Productivity growth
SESSION 5
Vincent R. Reinhart Securing the Peace after a Truce in the War on Inflation
/Monetary policy; Zero bound; Equilibrium interest rate
CONCLUDING PANEL DISCUSSION

Kunio Okina
Kazuo Ueda
Vincent R. Reinhart
Otmar Issing
Maurice Obstfeld
Bennett T. McCallum

 Concluding Panel Discussion: Sustained Economic Growth and Central Banking
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Vol.22, No.3 / October 2004

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Robert L. Hetzel Price Stability and Japanese Monetary Policy
/Japanese monetary policy; Bank of Japan; Deflation; Liquidity trap
Hiroshi Fujiki, Kunio Okina, and Shigenori Shiratsuka Comments on "Price Stability and Japanese Monetary Policy" (1)
/Quantitative easing; Deflation
Kenneth N. Kuttner Comments on "Price Stability and Japanese Monetary Policy" (2)
/Quantity theory; Quantitative easing; Deflation

Hiroshi Fujiki and Kiyoshi Watanabe

 Japanese Demand for M1 and Demand Deposits: Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Evidence from Japan
/Zero interest rate policy; Demand for money
Hiroyuki Oi, Shigenori Shiratsuka, and Toyoichiro Shirota On Long-Run Monetary Neutrality in Japan
/Long-run monetary neutrality; Long-term time-series data; Structural changes; Unit root tests; Bivariate structural vector autoregression (VAR)
Yukinobu Kitamura Information Content of Inflation-Indexed Bond Prices: Evaluation of U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities
/Inflation-indexed bond; Expected inflation rate; Real yield
Ryoji Koike Japan's Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Changes in Japanese and East Asian Trade
/Foreign direct investment (FDI); Gravity equation; Trade structure; Vertical specialization; Horizontal specialization; Fragmentation
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Vol.22, No.2 / May 2004

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Andrew K. Rose Equity Integration in Japan: An Application of a New Method
/Stock prices; Risk; Portfolio
Jun Nagayasu The Term Structure of Interest Rates and Monetary Policy during a Zero Interest Rate Period
/Monetary policy; Zero interest rates
Daniel L. Thornton Testing the Expectations Hypothesis: Some New Evidence for Japan
/Expectations hypothesis; Nonstationarity; Vector autoregression; Lagrange multiplier test
Masayuki Nakakuki,
Akira Otani, and
Shigenori Shiratsuka		 Distortions in Factor Markets and Structural Adjustments in the Economy
/Structural problems; Heckscher-Ohlin model; Specific factor model; Production possibility frontier; Total factor productivity (TFP)
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Vol.22, No.1 / March 2004

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Jaebeom Kim and Masao Ogaki Purchasing Power Parity for Traded and Non-Traded Goods: A Structural Error Correction Model Approach
/Structural error correction model (SECM); Purchasing power parity; Real exchange rate; Half-life; Convergence rate
Hiroyuki Oi, Akira Otani, and Toyoichiro Shirota The Choice of Invoice Currency in International Trade: Implications for the Internationalization of the Yen
/Invoice currency; Local currency pricing (LCP); Producer's currency pricing (PCP); Internationalization of the yen; New open-economy macroeconomics; Currency-basket regime
Naohiko Baba and Yasunari Inamura The Japanese Repo Market: Theory and Evidence
/Repo; Government bond; No-arbitrage condition; Repo spread; On-the-run issues; Cheapest to deliver (CTD); Short sales
Hiroatsu Tanaka and Naohiko Baba Optimal Timing in Trading Japanese Equity Mutual Funds: Theory and Evidence
/Mutual funds; Asset allocation; Fees; Uncertainty; Panel data
Ippei Fujiwara and Maiko Koga A Statistical Forecasting Method for Inflation Forecasting: Hitting Every Vector Autoregression and Forecasting under Model Uncertainty
/Inflation; Forecast; Reduced rank VAR; Kernel smoothing; Mixture distribution; Nonparametric test
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