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Strong Money Demand in Financing War and Peace

The Cases of Wartime and Contemporary Japan

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  1. Makoto Saito

    1. Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

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  • Investigates the emergence of strong money demand in wartime Japan and its reemergence in contemporary Japan
  • Constructs an augmented fiscal/monetary theory of price level by examining strong money demand in the above two periods
  • Explains puzzling monetary and fiscal phenomena observed in contemporary Japan

Part of the book series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics (AJBE, volume 28)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction: Toward a Monetary and Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

    • Makoto Saito
    Pages 1-24

  3. Central Banknotes and Black Markets: The Case of the Japanese Economy During and Immediately After World War II

    • Makoto Saito
    Pages 25-56

  4. On Large-Scale Monetary Operations in the Japanese Occupied Territories During the Pacific War

    • Makoto Saito
    Pages 57-78

  5. Public Bonds as Money Substitutes at Near-Zero Interest Rates: Disequilibrium Analysis of the Current and Future Japanese Economy

    • Makoto Saito
    Pages 79-119

  6. Long-Run Mild Deflation Under Fiscal Unsustainability in Contemporary Japan

    • Makoto Saito
    Pages 121-159

  7. Central Bank Cryptocurrencies in a Competitive Equilibrium Environment: Can Strong Money Demand Survive in the Digital Age?

    • Makoto Saito
    Pages 161-189

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 191-204
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This book theoretically and empirically investigates the emergence of strong money demand in wartime Japan (1937–1945), its disappearance after the end of the war (1945–1949), and the reemergence of strong money demand in contemporary Japan (from 1995 to the present) in terms of the effects on fiscal activities and the price level. An augmented fiscal/monetary theory of the price level is constructed from a close examination of the strong money demand present in these periods. Then, profoundly puzzling phenomena such as mild deflation despite monetary expansion, low long-term interest rates despite fiscal unsustainability, and weak aggregate demand despite near-zero rates of interest, all of which are actually being observed in contemporary Japan, can now be interpreted in line with the above augmented theory. In the present, strong money demand at near-zero rates endows the Japanese government with maximum fiscal flexibility. However, if it disappeared for some reason, prices wouldsurge to the quantity theory of money level, and fiscal sustainability would have to be restored. In the future, alternative currency units issued by private banks might carry out a purge of such strong demand for the yen.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Makoto Saito

About the author

Makoto Saito is Professor at Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, where he has been on the faculty since 2019. He received his B.A. from Kyoto University, and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After he worked as economist at The Sumitomo Trust Bank, he was on the faculty at The University of British Columbia, Kyoto University, Osaka University, and Hitotsubashi University. His long-run research agenda concerns dynamics of asset pricing in the presence of heterogeneous agents in both domestic and international contexts. Immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake happened in March, 2011, he conducted intensive research into the causes, effects, and consequences of the earthquake, including the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power accident. His recent research puts the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy in historical contexts, and explores policy implications. He published many papers in professional journals, including Journal of Monetary Economics,Journal of International Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, and Review of Income and Wealth. He received Ishikawa Prize from The Japanese Economic Association in 2007, and was given Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Emperor in 2014. For his books published in Japanese, he receives Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science in 2002, Economist Prize in 2008, The Zengin Foundation Award in 2010, and Ishibashi Tanzan Prize in 2012.

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