Professor of Economics

Economic Growth Center

Yale University
P.O. Box 208269
New Haven, CT 06520-8269

TEL: (203) 432-3610
FAX: (203) 432-3898
E-MAIL: koichi.hamada@yale.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  consumer behavior; exchange rates, currency markets; government bureaucracy; international direct investment; savings rate; structural trade impediments
• EDUCATION
  comparative educational systems; creativity development
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  foreign policy and international relations; industrial policy; international economic policy; trade policy; US policy affecting Japan-US relations
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  internationalization; law and society

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Visiting Professor of Economics, The Osaka Gas Chair on International Coordination, Osaka University, 1991-92; Visiting Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1985-86; Research Associate, Associate Professor, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo, 1965-86.

IN US: 1985-present - employment; 1971-73 - fellowship, visiting scholar; 1962-65 - Fulbright, dissertation research; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Strategic Approaches to the International Economy: Selected Essays of Koichi Hamada, Edward Elgar, 1996"; The Political Economy of International Monetary Interdependence (MIT Press, 1985); Macroeconomic Performance of the Japanese Economy (with Kurosaka) (Nihon Hyoronsha, 1984); An Economic Analysis of Liability Rules in Tort in Japan (University of Tokyo Press, 1977); To Both Sides of the Pacific...An Autobiographical Essay from Yale (NTT Publishing, 1993).