BOJ Institute Discussion Paper Series

The Bank of Japan Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies Discussion Paper Series (DPS) compiles research findings by institute staff and external researchers.

The series is intended to obtain broad comments from academia, research institutions, and other relevant parties.

The content and views expressed in the papers belong to the individual authors and do not represent the official views of the Bank of Japan or the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies.

The Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies website includes notes concerning the published papers and other materials, as well as a table for the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies Discussion Paper Series (E-Series: English-language edition). The table provides the main fields, authors, titles and keywords, publication dates, and links to the full-text PDFs; clicking a title displays the paper's abstract in English.

The table lists 11 papers from 2026-E-1 through 2026-E-11, covering the main fields of economics, finance, and information technology.

The published paper titles include topics such as employment protection, exits from low interest rates, liquidity in government bond markets, interbank markets, latent interest rates, recession forecasting, computerization, nominal interest rates, central bank independence, photonic quantum computing, and the geographic distance between banks and firms and lending rates. Publication dates are February 12, February 24, March 10, March 23, March 30, April 30, June 30, and August 4, 2026.