Publications

by members of

Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies
Bank of Japan
Tokyo, Japan

Working papers

2008

1. Ippei Fujiwara & Yuki Teranishi, 2008. "Real Exchange Rate Dynamics under Staggered Loan Contracts," IMES Discussion Paper Series 08-E-11, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
2. Ippei Fujiwara & Yasuo Hirose & Mototsugu Shintani, 2008. "Can News Be a Major Source of Aggregate Fluctuations? A Bayesian DSGE Approach," IMES Discussion Paper Series 08-E-16, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
3. Ichiro Muto, 2008. "Monetary Policy and Learning from the Central Bank's Forecast," IMES Discussion Paper Series 08-E-01, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
4. Migiwa Tanaka, 2008. "Deflation in Durable Goods Markets: An Empirical Model of the Tokyo Condominium Market," IMES Discussion Paper Series 08-E-02, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
5. Toshitaka Sekine & Yuki Teranishi, 2008. "Inflation Targeting and Monetary Policy Activism," IMES Discussion Paper Series 08-E-13, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
6. Yuki Teranishi, 2008. "Optimal Monetary Policy under Staggered Loan Contracts," IMES Discussion Paper Series 08-E-08, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
7. Nao Sudo, 2008. "Sectoral Co-Movement, Monetary-Policy Shock, and Input-Output Structure," IMES Discussion Paper Series 08-E-15, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Ippei Fujiwara & Yuki Teranishi, 2007. "A Dynamic New Keynesian Life-Cycle Model: Societal Ageing, Demographics and Monetary Policy," IMES Discussion Paper Series 07-E-04, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
2. Ippei Fujiwara & nd Naohisa Hirakata, 2007. "Dynamic Aspects of Productivity Spillovers, Terms of Trade and The "Home Market Effects"," IMES Discussion Paper Series 07-E-07, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
3. Ippei Fujiwara & Naoko Hara & Naohisa Hirakata & Takeshi Kimura & Shinichiro Watanabe, 2007. "Japanese Monetary Policy during the Collapse of the Bubble Economy: A View of Policy-making under Uncertainty," IMES Discussion Paper Series 07-E-09, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
4. Daisuke Nagakura & Eric Zivot, 2007. "Implications of Two Measures of Persistence for Correlation Between Permanent and Transitory Shocks in U.S. Real GDP," Working Papers UWEC-2007-07, University of Washington, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
5. Daisuke Nagakura, 2007. "Testing for Coefficient Stability of AR(1) Model When the Null is an Integrated or a Stationary Process," IMES Discussion Paper Series 07-E-020, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
6. Ichiro Muto, 2007. "Productivity Growth, Transparency, and Monetary Policy," IMES Discussion Paper Series 07-E-08, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. [Downloadable!]
7. Muto, Ichiro, 2007. "Estimating a New Keynesian Phillips Curve with a Corrected Measure of Real Marginal Cost: Evidence in Japan," MPRA Paper 4662, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
8. Jouchi Nakajima & Yasuhiro Omori, 2007. "Leverage, heavy-tails and correlated jumps in stochastic volatility models," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-514, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Yukinobu Kitamura, 2006. "Dynamic Consumption Behavior: Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data (Revised version)," Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series d06-184, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. [Downloadable!]
2. Kazuyasu Sakamoto & Yukinobu Kitamura, 2006. "Sedaikan kankei kara mita kekkon kodo [in Japanese]," Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series d06-198, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Yukinobu Kitamura & Tsuyosi Miyazaki, 2005. "Kekkon keikenritsu to shusseiryoku no tiikikankakusa: Jissho survey," Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series d05-124, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. [Downloadable!]
2. Yukinobu Kitamura, 2005. "Dynamic Consumption Behavior: Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data (This paper was revised as 06-184 in August 2006)," Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series d05-116, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
3. Fuchi, Hitoshi & Muto, Ichiro & Ugai, Hiroshi, 2005. "A Historical Evaluation of Financial Accelerator Effects in Japan's Economy," MPRA Paper 4648, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
4. Shin-ichi Fukuda & Munehisa Kasuya & Jouchi Nakajima, 2005. "Deteriorating Bank Health and Lending in Japan: Evidence from Unlisted Companies Undergoing Financial Distress," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-364, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. [Downloadable!]
5. Shin-ichi Fukuda & Munehisa Kasuya & Jouchi Nakajima, 2005. "Bank Health and Investment: An Analysis of Unlisted Companies in Japan," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-330, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. [Downloadable!]
6. R. Anton Braun & Julen Esteban-Pretel & Toshihiro Okada & Nao Sudou, 2005. "A Comparison of the Japanese and U.S. Business Cycles," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-392, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Ippei Fujiwara, 2004. "Evaluating Monetary Policy When Nominal Interest Rates Are Almost Zero," Econometric Society 2004 Far Eastern Meetings 620, Econometric Society. [Downloadable!]
2. Yuki Teranishi & Ippei Fujiwara & Naoko Hara, 2004. "The Japanese Economic Model: JEM," Econometric Society 2004 Far Eastern Meetings 723, Econometric Society.
3. Yasuhiro Omori & Siddhartha Chib & Neil Shephard & Jouchi Nakajima, 2004. "Stochastic Volatility with Leverage: Fast Likelihood Inference," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-297, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. [Downloadable!]
4. Yasuhiro Omori & Siddhartha Chib & Neil Shephard & Jouchi Nakajima, 2004. "Stochastic volatility with leverage: fast likelihood inference," Economics Papers 2004-W19, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. Ippei Fujiwara, 2003. "Is There a Direct Effect of Money?: Money's Role in an Estimated Monetary Business Cycle Model of the Japanese Economy," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business 03-15, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP). [Downloadable!]
2. Ippei Fujiwara, 2003. "Has the effect of monetary policy changedduring 1990s?: An Application of Identified Markov Switching Vector Autoregression to the Impulse Response Analysis When the Nominal Interest Rate is Almost Ze," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business 03-08, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP). [Downloadable!]
3. Ippei Fujiwara, 2003. "Output Composition of Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Japan," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business 03-07, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP). [Downloadable!]
4. Hiroshi FUJIKI & Yukinobu KITAMURA, 2003. "The Big Mac Standard: A Statistical Illustration," Discussion Paper Series a446, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. [Downloadable!]
5. Yukinobu Kitamura, 2003. "Corporate Profit and Dept -Panel Data Analysis of The Japanese Firms in the 1990s- (in Japanese)," CEI Working Paper Series 2003-7, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. [Downloadable!]

2002

1. Yukinobu Kitamura & Megumi Suto & Juro Teranishi, 2002. "Reflections on New Financial System in Japan: Participation Costs, Wealth Distribution, and Security Market-Based Intermidiation," CEI Working Paper Series 2001-25, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. [Downloadable!]

1994

1. Hiroshi Fujiki & Yukinobu Kitamura, 1994. "Feldstein-Horioka Paradox Revisited," Discussion Paper Series a298, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

1993

1. Noriyuki Takayama & Yukinobu Kitamura, 1993. "Household Saving Behavior in Japan," Discussion Paper Series a280, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

Journal articles

2008

1. Daisuke Nagakura, 2008. "A note on the relationship between the information matrx test and a score test for parameter constancy," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 3(5), pages 1-7. [Downloadable!]
2. Nagakura, Daisuke, 2008. "A note on the two assumptions of standard unobserved components models," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 100(1), pages 123-125, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2007

1. Fujiwara, Ippei, 2007. "Is there a direct effect of money?: Money's role in an estimated monetary business cycle model of the Japanese economy," Japan and the World Economy, Elsevier, vol. 19(3), pages 329-337, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Ippei Fujiwara, Naoko Hara, Naohisa Hirakata, Takeshi Kimura, and Shinichiro Watanabe, 2007. "Japanese Monetary Policy during the Collapse of the Bubble Economy: A View of Policymaking under Uncertainty," Monetary and Economic Studies, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, vol. 25(2), pages 89-128, November. [Downloadable!]
3. Yukinobu KITAMURA, 2007. "Comment on "Aging, Savings, and Public Pensions in Japan"," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 2(2), pages 322-323. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Kazuyasu Sakamoto & Yukinobu Kitamura, 2007. "Marriage Behavior from the Perspective of Intergenerational Relationships," Japanese Economy, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 34(4), pages 76-122, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Omori, Yasuhiro & Chib, Siddhartha & Shephard, Neil & Nakajima, Jouchi, 2007. "Stochastic volatility with leverage: Fast and efficient likelihood inference," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 127(2), pages 425-449, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Fujiwara, Ippei & McAdam, Peter & Roberts, John M., 2006. "Monetary policy at the zero interest bound: A model comparison exercise," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 305-313, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Fujiwara, Ippei, 2006. "Evaluating monetary policy when nominal interest rates are almost zero," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 434-453, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Fujiwara, Ippei & Hara, Naoko & Yoshimura, Kentaro, 2006. "Effectiveness of state-contingent monetary policy under a liquidity trap," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 364-379, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Anton Braun, R. & Esteban-Pretel, Julen & Okada, Toshihiro & Sudou, Nao, 2006. "A comparison of the Japanese and U.S. business cycles," Japan and the World Economy, Elsevier, vol. 18(4), pages 441-463, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2005

1. Fujiwara, Ippei, 2005. "Is the central bank's publication of economic forecasts influential?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 89(3), pages 255-261, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Ippei Fujiwara & Naoko Hara & Naohisa Hirakata & Shinichiro Watanabe & Kentaro Yoshimura, 2005. "Monetary Policy in a Liquidity Trap: What Have We Learned, and to What End?," International Finance, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 8(3), pages 471-508, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Fujiwara, Ippei & Hara, Naoko & Hirose, Yasuo & Teranishi, Yuki, 2005. "The Japanese Economic Model (JEM)," Monetary and Economic Studies, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, vol. 23(2), pages 61-142, May. [Downloadable!]
4. Ippei Fujiwara & Yuki Teranishi, 2005. "Monetary policy in a life-cycle economy," Proceedings, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
5. Jung, Taehun & Teranishi, Yuki & Watanabe, Tsutomu, 2005. "Optimal Monetary Policy at the Zero-Interest-Rate Bound," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 37(5), pages 813-35, October.
6. Sugo, Tomohiro & Teranishi, Yuki, 2005. "The optimal monetary policy rule under the non-negativity constraint on nominal interest rates," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 89(1), pages 95-100, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Ippei Fujiwara, 2004. "Output Composition of the Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Japan," Topics in Macroeconomics, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 4(1), pages 1178-1178. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Fujiwara, Ippei & Koga, Maiko, 2004. "A Statistical Forecasting Method for Inflation Forecasting: Hitting Every Vector Autoregression and Forecasting under Model Uncertainty," Monetary and Economic Studies, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, vol. 22(1), pages 123-42, March. [Downloadable!]
3. Daisuke Nagakura, 2004. "A Note on the Relationship of the Ordered and Sequential Probit Models to the Multinomial Probit Model," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 3(40), pages 1-7. [Downloadable!]
4. Hiroshi Fujiki & Yukinobu Kitamura, 2004. "The Big Mac Standard: A statistical Illustration," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 6(13), pages 1-18. [Downloadable!]
5. Kitamura, Yukinobu, 2004. "Information Content of Inflation-Indexed Bond Prices: Evaluation of U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities," Monetary and Economic Studies, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, vol. 22(3), pages 115-43, October. [Downloadable!]

2001

1. Kitamura, Yukinobu & Takayama, Noriyuki & Arita, Fumiko, 2001. "Household savings in Japan revisited," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(2), pages 135-153, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1999

1. Noriyuki Takayama & Yukinobu Kitamura, 1999. "Lessons from Generational Accounting in Japan," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 89(2), pages 171-175, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1997

1. Kitamura, Yukinobu, 1997. "Indexed Bonds and Monetary Policy: The Real Interest Rate and the Expected Rate of Inflation," Monetary and Economic Studies, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, vol. 15(1), pages 1-25, May. [Downloadable!]

Software components

2006

1. Ippei Fujiwara & Heedon Kang, 2006. "Expectation Shock Simulation with DYNARE," QM&RBC Codes 163, Quantitative Macroeconomics & Real Business Cycles, revised Feb 2008. [Downloadable!]

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