 | Koichi Hamada |
Koichi Hamada, newly designated as the Tuntex Professor of Economics, specializes in the Japanese economy and international economics.
Hamada's game-theoretic study of international monetary coordination was one of the first studies to draw attention to the strategic aspects of macroeconomic policies in the interdependent world. A native of Japan, he was one of the few to apply the methodology of "Law and Economics" to that nation's legal system in the 1970s. His current research topics include regional integration, political economy of monetary reform, the role of ideas in economic policy and a comparison of the economic functions between the Japanese and U.S. legal systems. His books include "The Political Economy of International Monetary Interdependence" and "Strategic Approaches to International Economy: Selected Essays of Koichi Hamada," as well as numeous volumes in Japanese.
Hamada passed the Japanese National Bar Examination in 1957 and earned an LL.B. in 1958 from the University of Tokyo, where he also received B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics in 1960 and 1962. He also earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1962 and 1964. He taught for 21 years at the University of Tokyo before coming to Yale in 1986.
In Japan, Hamada participated in many policy committees at the Ministry of Finance, MITI, the Economic Planning Agency and other ministries. From 2001-2003, he was on leave from Yale to serve as president of the Economic and Social Research Institute, a Cabinet Office of the Japanese government. The institute was created as part of the administrative reform in Japan.
A fellow and one-time council member of the Econometric Society, he is a former president of the Japanese Association of Economics and Econometrics (now the Japan Economic Association) and the founding president of the Japan Law and Economics Association, where he is now an honorary fellow. He is an associate editor for numerous academic journals, including Econometrica and the Journal of International Economics, and is editor of the Economic Studies Quarterly (now Japanese Economic Review).
His numerous honors include the Nikkei Book Prize, the Ekoonomisuto Prize and the Otton Eckstein Prize. He has received a Fulbright Scholarship, the Ford Dissertation Fellowship and the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector Fellowship.
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