Macroeconomic Analysis Japan - 3941 Words

| |Japan: Macroeconomic Analysis | | | | |Juan Pablo Giraudo | | |†¦show more content†¦In addition to the causes above, the following events have further deepened Japan’s economic situation during the Lost Decades: 1. Asian Banking Crisis 1997-1998 2. The Dotcom crisis 2001 3. The Financial Crisis 2008 Macroeconomic Analysis: GDP Japan ranks as the third largest economy in the world as of 2010. The GDP at current prices in US dollars in Japan was reported at 5068.06 billion in 2009, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Japan’s resurgence after World War II has however reached an inflection point in yearly 1989 after the burst of Japan’s asset price and real estate bubbles. As can be seen from the graph below, Japan’s GDP has hovered around the same level through more than 20 years of economic stagnation. The GDP’s slow growth has been exacerbated by the world financial crisis of 2008. A major landmark of Japan’s stagnation has been the BOJ’s fight against deflation. [pic] [pic] However taking into consideration Japan’s GDP deflator and applying a constant price we can see that Japan’s GDP growth does not look so bleak. [pic] In fact until the world economic crisis of 2008 Real GDP has been rising almost every year. There is no denying that during the Lost Decades Japan’s economic growth has stagnated (average annual GDP Growth was 2.20 percent from 1991 to 2010), unemployment rose from 2.1% in 1991 to 4.7% in 2000 and that generally theShow MoreRelatedA Study of the Macroeconomic Indicators1438 Words   |  6 PagesMacroeconomic indicators The period from 2008 through today has been a highly difficult one, with countries struggling to support their national economies, to reduce costs and guarantee the living standards of their populations. At a general level, the recent years have manifested an economic crisis of a gravity unwitnessed since the Great Depression of 1929-1933. 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