More than 11,000 firms are sampled in each survey. 11  See, for example, Koichiro Kamada and Kentaro Yoshimura, “Kigyo no Kakaku Mitoshi no Kochokusei: Tankan DI wo Mochiita Bunseki (Rigidity in Firms’ Price Expectations: An Analysis Based on the Bank of Japan’s Tankan [Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan] DI),” Bank of Japan Working Paper Series, No.
Longer term, a number of issues arise that are the subject of intense work in the central banking and supervisory community. Arrangements for the provision of liquidity by central banks have been changing in response to the events of the past eight months, but it is likely that there will be continued discussion about whether further refinements might be sensible.