Japan Outlook Webinar: Monetary and Fiscal Crunchtime?
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The COVID-19 pandemic may be in the rear mirror, but Japan is grappling with fresh uncertainties. Inflation, geopolitical tensions, and demographic change raise new demands on fiscal policy. At the same time, the Bank of Japan is dialling back monetary support. How will a Japan that is shouldering high government debt confront these challenges?
Join Moody’s Analytics Senior Economist Stefan Angrick and Paul Sheard, author of The Power of Money and former vice chairman of S&P Global, as they discuss the future of monetary and fiscal policy in Japan.
Webinar Topics:
- What changing inflation dynamics will mean for monetary and fiscal policy
- How higher interest rates will impact government debt and spending
- Japan’s capacity to spend more on defence and social security
- Fiscal implications of reducing the Bank of Japan’s balance sheet
- The decade-old inflation accord between the Bank of Japan and the government
* The webinar will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation in Japanese.
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SpeakersStefan Angrick Head of Japan and Frontier Market Economics Moody's
Paul Sheard Author of The Power of Money and former Vice Chairman of S&P Global
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Stefan Angrick is a Head of Japan and Frontier Market Economics at Moody's in Tokyo. He holds a master's degree from Leipzig University and a PhD from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. He has previously held positions with Oxford Economics, the Asian Development Bank Institute, the Bank of Finland, and Keio University.
Paul Sheard is a former vice chairman of S&P Global and a former senior fellow and research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He has held chief economist positions at S&P Global, Nomura Securities and Lehman Brothers and was Japan strategist and head of Japanese investments at Baring Asset Management. Sheard was a lecturer in economics at the Australian National University and an associate professor of economics at Osaka University, and he has held visiting positions at Stanford University and the Bank of Japan. He has a master of economics and PhD from ANU. In 2019, his alma mater, Monash University, conferred on him an honorary doctor of laws. His latest book is The Power of Money (BenBella Books, 2023).