Prof. ITO Takatoshi ’s research specialties are in international finance, open macroeconomics, and the Japanese economy. His recent research focuses on microstructures of the foreign exchange rates and inflation targeting. He is the author of Japanese Economy (2nd Edition, 2020), Managing Currency Risk (2018) and many other books and refereed journal articles.
1979 Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University
1979-88 Assistant Professor, tenured Associate Professor, The University of Minnesota
1988-2002 Associate Professor, full Professor, Hitotsubashi University
2004-2014 Professor, Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo
2015- Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
The Japanese Economy, MIT Press, 1992, Second Edition, 2020 (with Takeo Hoshi).
Managing Currency Risk (with S. Koibuchi, K. Sato, and J. Shimizu), Edward Elgar, 2018.
Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan (with Thomas F. Cargill and Michael M. Hutchison), MIT Press, 2001.
The Political Economy of Japanese Monetary Policy (with Thomas F. Cargill and Michael M. Hutchison), MIT Press, 1997.
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (2024)
The National Medal with Purple Ribbon (2011)
