２％物価上昇へ期待　異次元緩和効果に自信―日銀１３年下半期議事録

　日銀は３１日、２０１３年下半期（７～１２月）に開いた金融政策決定会合の議事録を公表した。３月に就任した黒田東彦総裁が国債を大量購入する「量的・質的金融緩和（異次元緩和）」を始めた直後で、景況感改善に伴い物価も上昇基調を強めていった時期に当たる。会合では「２年程度で２％」とした物価上昇目標の実現に期待を示す声が目立った。
　２年でマネタリーベース（資金供給量）を倍増させる異次元緩和は、あらゆる手段で緩和を進める姿勢を示し、家計や企業の間に物価上昇期待を高めるのが狙いだった。１３年４月の導入以降、全国消費者物価指数（生鮮食品を除く）の前年同月比はマイナス０．４％（４月）から１．３％（１２月）に上昇。岩田規久男副総裁は９月５日の会合で「想定通りの効果を発揮しつつある」と手応えを示した。（2024/01/31-09:05）

Many Bank of Japan policymakers showed expectations for the country's economy to achieve the central bank's 2 pct inflation target at their meetings in the second half of 2013, according to a transcript of the meetings released Wednesday.
   Sentiment improved and prices rose in the six months after then BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, who took office in March 2013, launched quantitative and qualitative monetary easing in April that year.
   The drastic monetary easing policy, which sought to double the amount of monetary base in two years, was aimed at raising expectations for higher prices ahead among households and businesses by showing the BOJ's readiness to push ahead with the easing by any means.
   Core consumer inflation, which excludes fresh food prices, climbed from a minus 0.4 pct in April 2013 to a plus 1.3 pct in December that year.
   At a meeting of the BOJ's policy board on Sept. 5, 2013, then Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata said that the quantitative and qualitative monetary easing "is bringing about intended effects."