2021年,日本银行继续实施长短期利率操作下的量化质化宽松政策,并出台了应对疫情的资金支持特别措施。同时,在全球对气候变化的关注力度日益加大的背景下,日本银行推出促进金融机构应对气候变化的资金支持新制度,推动企业绿色转型。2021年,日本的金融政策呈现三个特点:一是政策力度大,但数量型特征弱化;二是更加注重精准施策,提升政策效能;三是从中长期视角为经济可持续发展提供金融支持。其主要政策效果表现为:一是维持低利率水平,但并未改变物价低迷的状况;二是基础货币扩张,货币存量增加;三是日元贬值,股票市场总体平稳;四是银行贷款呈增加趋势,但增幅减弱。为解决有效需求不足的问题,日本银行将继续维持超宽松货币政策基调;操作层面,日本银行将减持短期国债,调整资产负债表规模;超宽松货币政策可减少财政政策扩张成本;应对气候变化应注重市场中立性等。
In 2021,BOJ continued to implement the QQE monetary easing with yield curve control,and to introduce “special funds-supplying operations to facilitate financing in response to the novel coronavirus(COVID-19)”. At the same time,in the context of increasing global concern about climate change,BOJ launched a climate response financing operation,to promote the green transformation of enterprises. The monetary policies in 2021 present three characteristics. First,the policy is aggressive,but the quantitative characteristics are weakened. Second,the policy is more targeted and more effective. Third,it will provide financial support for sustainable economic development from a medium and long-term perspective. The main policy effects are:first,maintaining a low interest rate level without changing the depressed situation of CPI;second,the expansion of base money and the increase of money stock;third,the depreciation of the yen,the stock market is generally stable;fourth,bank loans showed an increasing trend,but the growth rate weakened. In order to solve the lack of effective demand,the BOJ will continue to maintain the ultra-loose monetary policy. In practice,BOJ will reduce its holdings of short-term government bonds and adjust the scale of its balance sheet. Ultra-loose monetary policy can reduce the cost of fiscal policy expansion;addressing climate change should focus on neutrality,etc..