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Is It Abenomics or Post-Disaster Recovery? A Counterfactual Analysis

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  • Toshihiko HAYASHI

    (Asia Pacific Institute of Research)

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This study is an attempt to assess the impact of policy initiatives launched by Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Japan’s real GDP in his first quarter in office. We use as a benchmark for measurement a counterfactual estimate of GDP. Since the Japanese economy is also in the midst of reconstruction from the 2011 Tohoku disaster in the first quarter of 2013, we first estimate the counterfactual GDP which would have materialized in the absence of that disaster. We will use a dummy variable method and the statistical method proposed by Cheng Hsia and others. We check the validity of these methods with regard to the Kobe earthquake of 1995, and then estimate the post-disaster counterfactual GDP for the Tohoku disaster. We measure the impact of government policies as the difference between the actual and counterfactual GDP. By doing so, we conclude that government policies have failed to lift Japan’s GDP to the expected level. Even with the help of Abenomics, the gap remains in the rage of 3 to 13 trillion yen per year.

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  • Toshihiko HAYASHI, 2013. "Is It Abenomics or Post-Disaster Recovery? A Counterfactual Analysis," APIR Discussion Paper Series 1002527, Asia Pacific Institute of Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:aps:wpaper:1002527
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    1. Yutaka Kurihara, 2017. "Are Unconventional Monetary Policy and Large Scale Fiscal Policy Effective?: The Case of Japan," Applied Finance and Accounting, Redfame publishing, vol. 3(2), pages 42-48, August.

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