Research Participants

S1 (Executive Board) / A1 (Suzumura) / A2 (Tokita) / A3 (Takayama) / A4 (Saito) / A5 (Teranishi) / A6 (Nishimura) / A7 (Kitaoka)


  • Executive Board (S1)
  • Noriyuki Takayama
    Affiliation Full Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
    Status Director General & CEO
    Main Publications The Classroom for Pensions, Tokyo: PHP Publishers, 2000(in Japanese).
    The Morning After in Japan: Its Declining Population, Too Generous Pensions and a Weakened Economy, Tokyo: Maruzen, 1998.
    Saving and Wealth Formation, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1996. (in Japanese)
    The Stock Economy, Tokyo: The Oriental Economist Co., 1992. (in Japanese)
    CV http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/research/member/takayama.html
    Personal Website http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/~takayama/index-e.html
    Kotaro Suzumura
    Affiliation Full Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
    Status Executive Director & Program Leader
    Main Publications Rational Choice, Collective Decisions and Social Welfare, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.
    Competition, Commitment, and Welfare, Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
    "Paretian Welfare Judgements and Bergsonian Social Choice," Economic Journal, Vol.109, 1999, pp.204-220.
    "Consequences, Opportunities, and Procedures," Social Choice and Welfare, Vol.16, 1999, pp.17-40.
    "Welfare Economics Beyond Welfarist-Consequentialism," Presidential Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association, University of Tokyo, Japanese Economic Review, Vol.50, March 2000.
    CV http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/research/member/suzumura.html
    Tadahiko Tokita
    Affiliation Full Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
    Status Executive Director & Program Leader
    Main Publications The Medical Economy of Japan, Tokyo: The Oriental Economist Co., 1995. (in Japanese)
    "The Present and Future National Medical Expenditure in Japan," EPA, No. 152 Sept. 1997.
    Macro-dynamics, Tokyo: The Oriental Economist Co., 1977. (in Japanese)
    CV http://www.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~faculty/sassi/tokita.html#ENGLISH
    Osamu Saito
    Affiliation Full Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
    Status Executive Director & Program Leader
    Main Publications Population and Economy: From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth, Oxford University Press, 2000. (co-editor)
    Asian Population History, Oxford University Press, 2001. (co-editor)
    "Historical Demography: Achievements and Prospects," Population Studies, 50(3), 1996.
    CV http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/research/member/saito.html
    Juro Teranishi
    Affiliation Full Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
    Status Executive Director & Program Leader
    Main Publications Markets and Government: in Search of Better Coordination, Tokyo: Maruzen, 1998.
    Economic Development and Liabilities of Developing Countries, Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 1995. (in Japanese)
    Economic Reform in Postwar Japan, Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 1993. (in Japanese)
    CV http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/research/member/teranishi.html
    Yoshiaki Nishimura
    Affiliation Full Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
    Status Executive Director & Program Leader
    Main Publications "Reconsidering Policies toward the Transition to a Market Economy," Economic Review, 50(4), pp. 299-311, 1999. (in Japanese)
    "How about the Peformance of a Move toward the Market Economy in Russia?" Russian Review, 26, pp. 5-23, 1998. (in Japanese)
    From Socialism to Capitalism, Tokyo: Nihon-hyoron-sha, 1995. (in Japanese)
    CV http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/research/member/nishimura.html
    Shin-ichi Kitaoka
    Affiliation Full Professor of Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
    Status Executive Director & Program Leader
    Main Publications History of Modern Japan, Vol. 5: From Party Politics to the Military, Tokyo: Chuo-Koron-Shin-Sha, 1999.
    The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan : 38 Years in Power, Tokyo: Yomiuri-Shimbun-Sha, 1995.
    "The Bureaucratization of Japanese Politics," Japan Echo, Summer, 1993.
    "The Army as Bureaucracy: Japanese Militarism Revisited," Military History, October, 1993.
    CV http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/faculty-e/kitaoka-shinichi-e.htm
    Yukinobu Kitamura
    Affiliation Associate Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
    Status Secretary General
    Main Publications "Indexed Bonds and Monetary Policy: The Real Interest Rate and The Expected Rate of Inflation,"Bank of Japan Monetary and Economic Studies, 15(1), 1997, pp. 1-25.
    "Public Policies and Household Saving in Japan," (with T. Ito)Public Policies and Household Saving(J. Poterba, ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 133-160.
    "Household Saving Behavior in Japan," (with N.Takayama)International Comparisons of Household Saving(J. Poterba, ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 125-167.
    "Lessons from Generational Accounting in Japan," (with N.Takayama)American Economic Review, 89(2), 1999, pp. 171-175.
    CV http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/research/member/kitamura.html
    Personal Website http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/~kitamura/

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