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2023.5.9 Participated in Japan Society, 'ESG Investing: Its History, Practice & Future' as as a speaker.
“ESG Investing: Its History, Practice & Future”
Date ＆Time: Tuesday, May 9, 9 am ET
Venue: Live Webinar
Speakers: Keiko Honda, Adjunct Professor and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds & Associate Director, Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
Moderator: Joshua W. Walker, Ph.D., President & CEO, Japan Society
Date ＆Time: Tuesday, May 9, 9 am ET
Venue: Live Webinar
Speakers: Keiko Honda, Adjunct Professor and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds & Associate Director, Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
Moderator: Joshua W. Walker, Ph.D., President & CEO, Japan Society
2023.4.19 Lecture by Haruhiko Kuroda, 'Unconventional Monetary Policy'
“Unconventional Monetary Policy”
Date ＆Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 6:00 – 7:15 PM
Venue: Cooperman Commons, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Haruhiko Kuroda, Former Governor, Bank of Japan
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Welcome Remarks: David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University
CJEB Events Arcives
Date ＆Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 6:00 – 7:15 PM
Venue: Cooperman Commons, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Haruhiko Kuroda, Former Governor, Bank of Japan
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Welcome Remarks: David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University
CJEB Events Arcives
2023.4.17 Lecture by Haruhiko Kuroda, 'The Future of the International Monetary System'
“The Future of the International Monetary System”
Date ＆ Time: Monday, April 17, 2023 | 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Venue: Room 1501, International Affairs Building, Columbia University
Remarks by: Haruhiko Kuroda, Former Governor of the Bank of Japan (March 2013 – April 2023)
Dialogue with: Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1994-1996)
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito
CJEB Events Arcives
Date ＆ Time: Monday, April 17, 2023 | 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Venue: Room 1501, International Affairs Building, Columbia University
Remarks by: Haruhiko Kuroda, Former Governor of the Bank of Japan (March 2013 – April 2023)
Dialogue with: Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1994-1996)
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito
CJEB Events Arcives
2023.4.14 Asian Economic Policy Review (AEPR) conference as a co-organizer, chair of two sessions, and a discussant on the paper.
Conference papers will be published in AEPR, vol.19, no.1, January 2024.
2023.3.23-24 Fifth Annual Conference of the Japan Economy Network (co-hosted by Japan Economy Network and CJEB) was held at Columbia University.
Agenda here（PDF、CJEB website）
Date: 23-24 March 2023
Venue:Presidential Room 1, 3rd Floor, Faculty House, Columbia University
Day 1 (23 March 2023)
9:00-9:15: Welcome
Ulrich Volz (SOAS, University of London)
Takatoshi Ito (Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School)
Day 2 (24 March 2023)
11:00-12:00: Keynote speech by Takatoshi Ito (Columbia University)
16:45-18:15: Special Panel Discussion on Monetary Policy Challenges
Chair: Andrew Filardo (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
Takatoshi Ito (Columbia University)
Paolo Pesenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Aichi Amemiya (Nomura)
Rasmus Rüffer (European Central Bank)
Toshitaka Sekine (Hitotsubashi University)
CJEB Events Arcives
Date: 23-24 March 2023
Venue:Presidential Room 1, 3rd Floor, Faculty House, Columbia University
Day 1 (23 March 2023)
9:00-9:15: Welcome
Ulrich Volz (SOAS, University of London)
Takatoshi Ito (Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School)
Day 2 (24 March 2023)
11:00-12:00: Keynote speech by Takatoshi Ito (Columbia University)
16:45-18:15: Special Panel Discussion on Monetary Policy Challenges
Chair: Andrew Filardo (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
Takatoshi Ito (Columbia University)
Paolo Pesenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Aichi Amemiya (Nomura)
Rasmus Rüffer (European Central Bank)
Toshitaka Sekine (Hitotsubashi University)
CJEB Events Arcives
2023.2.24 Participated in Japan Economic Seminar hosted by CJEB.
Japan Economic Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, February 24, 2023 | 1:00 – 5:35 PM
Venue: Room 520, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
agenda (PDF, CJEB website)
Session 1: “The Impact of Central Bank Stock Purchases: Evidence from Discontinuities in Policy Rules”
Presenter: Masao Fukui, Assistant Professor, Boston University
Coauthor: Masayuki Yagasaki
Discussant: Kimie Harada, Chuo University
Session 2: “A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance”
Presenter: Kei Kawai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Coauthor: Jun Nakabayashi
Discussant: Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University
Moderator for Sessions 1 and 2: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Date & Time: Friday, February 24, 2023 | 1:00 – 5:35 PM
Venue: Room 520, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
agenda (PDF, CJEB website)
Session 1: “The Impact of Central Bank Stock Purchases: Evidence from Discontinuities in Policy Rules”
Presenter: Masao Fukui, Assistant Professor, Boston University
Coauthor: Masayuki Yagasaki
Discussant: Kimie Harada, Chuo University
Session 2: “A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance”
Presenter: Kei Kawai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Coauthor: Jun Nakabayashi
Discussant: Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University
Moderator for Sessions 1 and 2: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
2023.2.13 Participated in the seminar at Harvard University.
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Hybrid)
“Challenges Facing the Japanese Economy: Demography, Debts, Deglobalization, and Decarbonization”
Video Here（YouTube）
Date: Monday, February 13, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Huguette and Michel Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Zoom (Hybrid Event)
Speaker: Takatoshi Ito, Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds; Associate Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School; Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
“Challenges Facing the Japanese Economy: Demography, Debts, Deglobalization, and Decarbonization”
Video Here（YouTube）
Date: Monday, February 13, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Huguette and Michel Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Zoom (Hybrid Event)
Speaker: Takatoshi Ito, Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds; Associate Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School; Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Media
■ 2023.5.23 Project Syndicate column was published.
“What Did the Hiroshima G7 Summit Accomplish?”
■ 2023.4.21 Project Syndicate column was published.
“The Bank of Japan’s Remarkable Decade”
■ 2023.3.28 Project Syndicate column was published.
“An Insolvency Iceberg?”
■ 2023.3.9 Apperared on Bloomberg TV, ‘Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia’.
Bloomberg Daybreak comments on the Bank of Japan’s likely course from here（Bloomberg Website）