01757cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000848 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451846454 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Rendu, Christel. Japan's Stagnant Nineties : A Vector Autoregression Retrospective / Christel Rendu, Ramana Ramaswamy. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999. 1 online resource (22 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper uses a vector autoregression (VAR) approach to identify the driving forces of the growth slowdown in Japan during the 1990s. Negative shocks to both residential and nonresidential investment are shown to have been important determinants of the slowdown. Despite the collapse in asset prices, negative shocks to private consumption were relatively small. A surprising conclusion is that trends in public consumption had a dampening impact on activity in the 1990s. The VAR estimations do not support the counterfactual conjecture that activity in Japan would have been significantly weaker in the absence of the expansionary shift in fiscal policy. Mode of access: Internet Ramaswamy, Ramana. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/045 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1999/045/001.1999.issue-045-en.xml IMF e-Library