Office Address
Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS)
Hitotsubashi University
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 101-8439, Japan
Fax: 1-801-469-0086 (US number)

Simplified Vita
May 1980 Harvard Ph.D. in economics
1980 Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
1982 Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba
1985 Associate Professor, Osaka University
1988 Professor, University of Pennsylvania
1993 Carl Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy, Columbia University
1995 Professor, University of Tokyo
2009 Professor, Hitotsubashi University

Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics


Recent Publications in Refereed Journals

• "Identifying a Liquidity Effect in the Japanese Interbank Market for Overnight Loans", International Economic Review, May 2001 (If you wish to examine the data set used in this paper, please let me know by fax.)
• "Japan in the 1990s: A Lost Decade", co-authored with Edward C. Prescott, Review of Economic Dynamics, January 2002.
• "Can IT be Japan's Savior?", co-authored with Koji Nomura, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, December 2005
• "The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy", co-authored with Edward C. Prescott, Journal of Political Economy, August 2008.

Books written/edited
Understanding Saving: Evidence from the U.S. and Japan, MIT Press, 1997
Econometrics, Princeton University Press, 2000.
Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan. (co-edited with Magnus Blomstrom, Jenny Corbett, and Anil Kashyap), NBER/University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Awards and Honors
Japan Economic Association Nakahara Prize, 1995
The Japan Academy Prize and the Imperial Prize, 2001
Elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005

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