TAKAHASHI, Wataru

Education & Employment

1978

B.A. in economics, University of Tokyo

1978

Bank of Japan

1987

Senior Economist
Research and Statistics Department

2001

Deputy Director-General
Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies

2002

Deputy Director-General
International Department

2004

Advisor to the Governor
International Department

2006

Director-General
Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies

(Academic Career)

1999

Lecturer, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

2000-2002

Professor of Economics, Keio University

2003-2004

Lecturer, Keio University

2008-2009

Lecturer, Kyoto University

Research Fields

Monetary Economics

Major Publications

• “A Financial System Perspective on Japan's Experience in the Late 1980s”IMES Discussion Paper Series E-19, Bank of Japan, August 2009 (with M.Hattori and Hyun Song Shin)
• “Globalization: Role of Institution Buildings the Japanese Financial Sector” Bank of Japan Working Paper Series No.03-E-7, Bank of Japan, December 2003 ( with S. Kobayakawa )
• “The East Asian economies after the financial crisis: a role of the Japanese yen?”In H. Dobson and G.Hook ed. Japan and Britain Contemporary World, RoutledgeCurzon, July 2002
• “Monetary Operations” (Mita Journal of Economics Vol.95, No.1, April 2002)
• “Consumer Behaviour in Japan under Financial Liberalization and Demographic Change” in M. Okabe (ed.), The Structure of Japanese Economy , Macmillan 1995 (with Y. Kitamura)
• “Japan's Financial Markets: Their Competitiveness and Internationalization” D.Fair & R.Raymond ed. the Competitiveness of Financial Institutions and Centres in Europe, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994 (with H.Taguchi)
• “Suggestion for Financial Reform in China” presented at the International Seminar “ the Retrospect and Prospect of Economic Reform in China from 1979 to 1988” October 1988 (with Y. Suzuki)
• “Anticipated Money and Real Output : An Examination of the Macro Rational Expectations Hypothesis for Japan ” (Discussion Paper Series 10, Bank of Japan,1981)