Alexis Stenfors is Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth, UK.Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS University of London, UK.

• Preface. Introduction (1) The Japan Premium and the first stage of the monetary transmission mechanism (2) The foreign currency swap market: A perspective from policymakers (3) The effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy on Japanese bank lending (4) Japanese banks in the international money markets (5) The Japanese balance sheet recession 20 Years on: Abenomics – economic revival or corporate financialisation? (6) An analysis of the impact of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy on Japanese government bonds’ low nominal yields (7) Unconventional monetary policy announcements and Japanese bank stocks (8) Bank of Japan and the ETF market (9) Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing, negative interest rates and the stability of the financial system in Japan

Alexis Stenfors is Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth, UK.Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS University of London, UK.

• Preface. Introduction (1) The Japan Premium and the first stage of the monetary transmission mechanism (2) The foreign currency swap market: A perspective from policymakers (3) The effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy on Japanese bank lending (4) Japanese banks in the international money markets (5) The Japanese balance sheet recession 20 Years on: Abenomics – economic revival or corporate financialisation? (6) An analysis of the impact of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy on Japanese government bonds’ low nominal yields (7) Unconventional monetary policy announcements and Japanese bank stocks (8) Bank of Japan and the ETF market (9) Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing, negative interest rates and the stability of the financial system in Japan

Alexis Stenfors is Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth, UK.Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS University of London, UK.

• Preface. Introduction (1) The Japan Premium and the first stage of the monetary transmission mechanism (2) The foreign currency swap market: A perspective from policymakers (3) The effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy on Japanese bank lending (4) Japanese banks in the international money markets (5) The Japanese balance sheet recession 20 Years on: Abenomics – economic revival or corporate financialisation? (6) An analysis of the impact of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy on Japanese government bonds’ low nominal yields (7) Unconventional monetary policy announcements and Japanese bank stocks (8) Bank of Japan and the ETF market (9) Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing, negative interest rates and the stability of the financial system in Japan