Japan: Selected Issues

July 15, 2009

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Japan: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed December 11, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper focuses on Japan’s public debt and the challenges facing small- and medium-size enterprises in Japan. Historically, Japan’s public debt has been financed in a fairly smooth manner. The large pool of household savings and the stable domestic institutional investor base appear to have contributed to this successful experience. However, Japan is already undergoing rapid population aging, which will likely limit the market’s future absorptive capacity of public debt. In addition, structural shifts in institutional investors could also serve to reduce market demand.

Subject: Bond yields, Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Financial services, Public debt, Short term interest rates, Yield curve

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Bank, Bond yields, Commercial banks, CR, Debt matter, Deficit, Distressed firm, Financial institution, Firm, Global, Insolvent firm, ISCR, JGB market, JGB yield, Short term interest rates, SME sector, SME support center, Western Europe, Yield, Yield curve

Publication Details

Pages:

37
Volume:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2009/211
Stock No:

1JPNEA2009003
ISBN:

9781451820744
ISSN:

1934-7685

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