Reassessing Japan’s ‘big bang’: Did financial reform really fail?
Author: Bruce E Aronson, Creighton University
The ‘lost decade’ of the 1990s in Japan has now become two decades, with the latter marked by persistent deflationary pressure.
Beginning in the 1990s, the Japanese introduced short-term fiscal and monetary policies to stimulate the economy and ‘structural reform’ to achieve sustained economic recovery through a new post-industrial economic model. Read more…
