Authors:

  • Julio J. Rotemberg

Excerpt

Japan: Betting on Inflation? Julio J. Rotemberg, February 2014, Case. "The case focuses on the challenges still confronting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of 2013, a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market and real estate crash in 1989-1992. During his first year in office, Abe introduced three sets of policies designed both to reverse the deflation that had plagued Japan since around 2000 and to increase the Japanese growth rate..." May require purchase or user account. Link