Tuesday, October 27, 2020 | 8:00 – 9:00 PM (EDT)

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 | 9:00 - 10:00 AM (JST)

Featuring:

Takatoshi Ito

Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School

Moderated by

David E. Weinstein

Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University

What You’ll Learn:

• A comprehensive review of Abenomics from 2013 to 2020
• The political calendar from now to next year
• What Mr. Suga is likely to achieve in economic policy

About the speaker:

Takatoshi Ito is the director of the Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds and associate director of research at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business of Columbia Business School. He is also a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has taught extensively both in the United States and Japan since his finishing Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 1979. He taught as assistant and tenured associate professor (1979-88) at University of Minnesota, as associate and full professor at Hitotsubashi University (1988-2002), as professor at the Graduate School of Economics at University of Tokyo (2004-2014) before assuming his current position in 2014. He held visiting professor positions at Harvard University, Stanford University; Columbia Business School, and Tun Ismail Ali Chair Professor at University of Malaya. He has distinguished academic and research appointments such as president of the Japanese Economic Association in 2004; fellow of the Econometric Society, since 1992; research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1985; and faculty fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, since 2006. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, and is co-editor of the Asian Economic Policy Review. In an unusual move for a Japanese academic, Ito was also appointed in the official sectors, as senior advisor in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund (1994-97) and as deputy vice minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance, Japan (1999-2001). He served as a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy (2006-2008).

In 2010, he was a co-author of a commissioned study of the Bank of Thailand 10th year review of inflation targeting regime. He contributes frequently op-ed columns and articles to Financial Times and Nihon Keizai Shinbun. He is an author of many books including The Japanese Economy (MIT Press, 1992), The Political Economy of the Japanese Monetary Policy(1997) and Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan (2000) (both with T. Cargill and M. Hutchison, MIT Press), An Independent and Accountable IMF (with J. De Gregorio, B. Eichengreen, and C. Wyplosz, 1999), and more than 130 academic (refereed) journal articles, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, and Journal of Monetary Economics, and chapters in books on international finance, monetary policy, and the Japanese economy. His research interest includes capital flows and currency crises, microstructures of the foreign exchange rates, and inflation targeting. The National Medal with Purple Ribbon was awarded in June 2011 for his excellent academic achievement.

Admission and Contact:

This is a free event. You must register for the webinar to receive the login details. Registrants will receive a link to access the live webinar upon registration.

If you have questions about the event, please contact us at cjeb@columbia.edu.

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