The success of “Your Party” in the Upper House elections has put the idea of an explicit inflation target for the Bank of Japan back on the policy agenda. A decent case can be made for at least a temporary target of 1% or more. But with household inflation expectations already positive and the financial markets already expecting monetary policy to remain ultra-loose for the foreseeable future, a more formal inflation target would probably make little difference in practice.
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