Here PK recommends, working through - pretty uncontroversially - the logic of the standard New Keynesian model, that Japan should try another burst of expansionary fiscal policy to raise inflation. But that it should actually do it with enough force and persistence to get inflation to a higher target, so that this leaves room for a compensating monetary stimulus when, eventually, the necessary fiscal consolidation comes.
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Krugman on Japan
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Here PK recommends, working through - pretty uncontroversially - the logic of the standard New Keynesian model, that Japan should try another burst of expansionary fiscal policy to raise inflation. But that it should actually do it with enough force and persistence to get inflation to a higher target, so that this leaves room for a compensating monetary stimulus when, eventually, the necessary fiscal consolidation comes.