As these factors suggest, the conditions necessary for strengthening the movement toward price rises in the medium term have begun to be put in place, and thus the momentum toward achieving the price stability target appears to have been maintained in Japan.
After more than eight years in the monetary union, many of the feared asymmetric shocks have been realized (e.g., volatile swings in the telecom sector and significant weakening of the U.S. dollar) but the Finnish economy has performed well, both in terms of growth and price stability.