Japan's Economic Outlook and Normalization of Monetary Policy

September 26, 2024
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Cooperman Commons, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School

Featuring: 
Haruhiko Kuroda: Former Governor, Bank of Japan; Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Moderator:
David E. Weinstein: Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University

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What you’ll learn: 

  • The impact Bank of Japan (BOJ) policies, such as quantitative and qualitative monetary easing and yield curve control, have had on the Japanese and foreign money markets.
  • The effects of recent geopolitical shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine War, on Japanese monetary policy and global growth.
  • Potential causes for the yen’s historic depreciation and the role of the BOJ in achieving price stability.
  • How the BOJ’s efforts to normalize monetary policy could reverberate to financial institutions, corporations, the government, and the general public.

Note: We are unable to accommodate media representatives at this event.

Image of Haruhiko Kuroda,  Former Governor of the Bank of Japan and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)