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Curriculum Vitae 

Education

1962  

B.A., Economics, University of Tokyo

1964  

M.A., Economics, University of Tokyo

1967  

Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota,
Dissertation: "Increasing Returns to Scale and the Market Mechanism"

Academic Experiences

Stanford University: Assistant Professor of Economics, 1967-68;
Visiting Professor, 1982 (Fall); Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies in Economics, 1984-2004, Emeritus 2004.
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research and Freeman Spolgi Institute of International Studies

Harvard University: Assistant Professor of Economics, 1968-71;
Fulbright Visiting Professor of Economics, 1979-80.

Kyoto University: Associate Professor of Economics, 1969-77;
Professor of Economics, 1977-1991.

Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences: Fellow, 1987 (November) and 1988 (May).

University of Tokyo: Visiting Professor, 1994 (Fall).

Keio University:Visiting Professor, 1996 (Spring), 1997 (Spring).

London School of Economics: Distinguished Visitor, STICERD, 1997 (Fall).

Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Visiting Professor, 2004-06

Tsinghua University, Honorary Guest Professor, 2002-11

 
 

Expertises

Comparative institutional analysis, corporate governance, the theory of the firm, the Japanese and Chinese economies

Others

1981

Fellow, Econometric Society

1990

Japan Academy Prize

1990

Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award of the Best Book on East Asia (The Association of American University Presses)

1993

Foreign Member, Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (Economics)

1995-96

President, Japanese Economic Association

1996

Honorary Visiting Professor, Peoples University of China

1998

Schumpeter Prize (International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society)

1999

Walras-Pareto Lecture, University of Lausanne

2001-4

President, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan

2008-11

President, the International Economic Association


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