Director

The Center on Japanese Economy and Business

Columbia Business School
Columbia University
522 Uris Hall
New York, NY 10027

TEL: (212) 854-3497
FAX: (212) 678-6958
E-MAIL: htp@columbia.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  banking; capital markets; domestic investment; exchange rates, currency markets; finance, financial services; general economics; government-business relations; industrial and manufacturing competitiveness; industrial organization; international economics; international trade and finance; macroeconomics; trade relations
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  economic relations; political economy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 1984-present; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Economics, Yale University, 1960-84; Director, Yale Economic Growth Center, 1976-79; 1980-83; Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo 1968-69; Lecturer, Economics, University of Michigan, 1958-60; Economic Analyst, US Government, 1951-53.

IN JAPAN: 1957-58, 1962, 1964-65, 1968-69, 1980 - research, Fulbright; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Crisis and Change in Japanese Financial Markets (ed. with Takeo Houshi, Kluwer, 2000); The Financial Development of Japan Korea and Taiwan: Growth, Repression and Liberation (ed. with Park) (Oxford University Press, 1994); The Japanese Main Bank System: Its Relevance for Developing and Transforming Economies (ed. with Aoki) (Oxford University Press, 1994); Pacific Basin Industries in Distress: Structural Adjustment and Trade Policy in Nine Industrialized Economies (ed. with Meissner) (Columbia University Press, 1991); Regulating International Financial Markets: Issues and Policies (ed. with Edwards) (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991).