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My main area of research is the economic study of post-socialist transition countries - an interest that has been borne as a result of having spent a total of six years as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign and Affairs and Japan's embassy in the Soviet Union/Russian Federation. I subsequently enrolled in Hitotsubashi University's graduate program, and for my PhD in economics, which I obtained in 2001, conducted a comparative study of economic institutions in the Central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union. Once employed at the Institute, I expanded my research area to include Russia and Hungary and engaged in a comparative study of the transition process to a market economy and enterprise reform in these two countries. With regard to theory, I have a strong interest in theoretical issues related to economic institutions, the comparison of enterprise systems, organizational economics, and the analysis of economics and the law.
The main research topics and projects I am currently involved in can be broadly categorized into the following four areas: (1) empirical analysis of the Russian economy under international sanctions; (2) empirical study of the impacts of global and European crisis on emerging economies, (3) meta-analysis of institutions; (4) compilation of long-term statistics on the countries of Central Asia. Among these topics, I am particularly concentrating on the first two projects: In 2019, I have launched an international project to study the impacts of international sanctions on the Russian regional economy and corporate sector. Furthermore, I am also conducting a research project which aims to empirically examine the impacts of European political and economic crises on former socialist emerging markets, focusing on the Ukrainian crisis in 2014.
◎Keywords
economics of transition, comparative corporate systems, organizational economics,law and economics, meta-analysis, corporate governance, Russia, Hungary, Central Asia
