Download or read book The Fiscal Stance in Japan: A Model-based Analysis written by Jean-Marc Fournier and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper assesses Japan’s fiscal stance in the past and the future with a stochastic structural model called the Buffer-Stock Model of the Government. Our retrospective analysis suggests that the fiscal stance in the 1990s and the early 2000s was overall looser than the model recommendations. As for the future, the model advises the near-term fiscal policy to be supportive with a view to narrowing the output gap and minimizing hysteresis, while recommending a fiscal consolidation over the medium-term at a gradual pace.