Japan's Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for Advanced Economies

by Michael M. Hutchison

Experts on the Japanese economy examine Japan's prolonged period of economic underperformance, analyzing the ways in which the financial system, monetary policy, and international financial factors contributed to its onset and duration.

After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the postwar era, Japan plunged abruptly into recession in the early 1990s and since then has suffered a prolonged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262083477
• ISBN13: 9780262083478
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher