Toshihiko Fukui
Toshihiko Fukui
Toshihiko Fukui is a Japanese economist and central banker. He was the 29th Governor of the Bank of Japanand a Director of the Bank for International Settlements...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth7 September 1935
CountryJapan
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They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.
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Good news is that banks' lending attitude seems to be gradually becoming far more accommodative than in the previous recoveries.
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Asset price fluctuations have important implications for promoting more efficient resource allocations and achieving sustained growth in the long run.
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Recent empirical studies, however, show such short run effects become small because the exchange rate pass-through to import prices declines.
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The downward rigidity of nominal wages is often pointed out as a factor that prevents the smooth adjustment of real wages under very low inflation.
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Interest rates will stay at zero for a while, then move to extremely low levels before being adjusted according to economic conditions.
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Investors are aware that the economy's fundamentals are firm. We hope they react calmly.
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All we can say is that we will respond appropriately to economic and financial conditions.
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A low rate of inflation itself now poses a new challenge of achieving and promoting sustained economic growth in the global economy.
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I certainly welcome discussions on how central banks can best contribute to sustained economic growth and sound development of the global economy.
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Second-quarter GDP was revised upwards, representing the well-balanced nature of the recovery in Japan's economy,
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The Japanese economy has finally crawled out of a lull which began in the summer of last year and is continuing to recover,
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We've just ended quantitative easing so it is too early to say when to end the zero (interest) rate policy.
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During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.