Bank of Japan comprehensive review on past monetary easing steps

The BOJ announces the outcome of its comprehensive review on past monetary easing steps.

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• comprehensive review concludes it is appropriate for the Bank to continue conducting monetary policy from the perspective of the sustainable and stable achievement of the 2% price stability target.
• review states that the Bank should not exclude any specific measures at this point when considering the future conduct of monetary policy.
• review notes that the quantitative effects of their measures are uncertain compared with conventional monetary policy measures.
• review finds that monetary easing affected inflation expectations to some degree but was not sufficiently effective to anchor inflation at 2%.
• review highlights that long-term interest rates were pushed down by about 1 percentage point since 2016.
• review estimates the impact of large-scale monetary easing on GDP to be between +1.3% and +1.8%.

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.