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2024.7.4-5　Participated in 8TH HOSPITALITY FINANCE & ECONOMICS CONFERENCE (Jointly-organized by
Hitotsubashi University, EHL Hospitality Business School and NUS Institute of Real Estate & Urban Studies) as a Keynote speaker.
8th HOSPITALITY FINANCE & ECONOMICS CONFERENCE
Program Here
Date: July 4-5, 2024
Venue: International House of Japan (Tokyo, Japan)
Day 1 – Thursday, 4 July 12:00 – 13:00
Session 2: Keynote Speech: A Tale of Two Whales, How to build up alternatives at GPIF and the University Fund in Japan
Professor Takatoshi Ito
2024.3　A new NBER Working paper has been published.
“Invoicing Currency Choice: Strategic Complementarities and Currency Matching”
Yushi Yoshida, Junko Shimizu, Takatoshi Ito, Kiyotaka Sato, Taiyo Yoshimi & Uraku Yoshimoto
WORKING PAPER w32276
DOI 10.3386/w32276
ISSUE DATE March 2024
2024.3.1-3　 I participated in and presented a paper 'Japan and India: Geopolitics, Democracy, and Industrial Policy' at The CSEP conference 'India in Asia, Deeper Engagement: New Industrial Policies: Asian Perspectives,' March 1-3, 2024 at Neemrana Fort-Palace.
2024.2　A new NBER Working paper has been published.
“Invoice Currency Choice in Intra-Firm Trade: A Transaction-Level Analysis of Japanese Automobile Exports”
Taiyo Yoshimi, Uraku Yoshimoto, Kiyotaka Sato, Takatoshi Ito, Junko Shimizu & Yushi Yoshida
WORKING PAPER 32142
DOI 10.3386/w32142
ISSUE DATE February 2024

Media

■　2024.7.1　Project Syndicate column was published.
　　“The Bank of Japan’s Go-Slow Policy Normalization”

■　2024.6.13 Appeared on Bloomberg TV.
　 “Bank of Japan Likely to Cut JGB Purchase Amount, Columbia’s Ito Says”（2024年6月13日）

■　2024.5.30　An interview has appeared at Bloomberg.
　　“BOJ May Raise Rates Two More Times in 2024, Columbia’s Ito Says” (subscription only)

■　2024.5.16 Project Syndicate column was published.
　　“The Innocent Bystanders of College Protests”

■　2024.5.2　An interview has appeared at Reuters.
　　“Japan’s FX intervention signals 160 yen line in the sand, says ex-official”