Bank of Japan will have to ease more before long

The Bank of Japan today decided to leave policy settings unchanged, thus ignoring signs that its efforts to lift inflation towards the 2% target are stalling. However, we think that the threat of persistent deflation will force policymakers to step up the pace of easing before long, perhaps as early as July.

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