Expertise
Health and Economy, Regional Economics
Research Projects
- Toward Building Socio-life Science (August 3, 2020 - January 31, 2024)
Education
1999 MA in Economics, Rutgers University, USA
1992 Bachelor of Economics, the University of Tokyo
Experience
2020 - Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University
2020 - 2021 Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
2019 - 2020 Director General, Department of the National Accounts, Cabinet Office
2017 - 2019 Director, Division of Regional Economic Analysis, Cabinet Office
2017 Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
2014 - 2017 Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
2012 - 2014 Executive Secretary to the Minister for Regulatory Reform, Cabinet Office
2009 - 2011 Director, National Expenditure Division, Department of the National Accounts, Cabinet Office
2001 - 2004 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Policy Studies
1992 Economic Planning Agency
Selected Publications and Papers
Working Papers
- "On Improving the Quality of Quarterly GDP in Japan: A Recent Attempt," A Proceeding to 58th World Statistical Congress of International Statistical Institute, 2011 (with Naoto Kunitomo and Seisho Sato)
- "The Environment for Microdata Access in Japan: A Comparison with the United States and Britain and Future Issues," Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series 105, 2009 (with Akira Kawai and Tomohiko Inui)
Papers Published in Refereed Journals
- "Agglomeration and Networking in Academic Research," THE KEIZAI BUNSEKI No. 194, 2017 (with Hiroki Inoue, Hiromi Saito, Shigeru Sugihara and Taisuke Kameda)
