Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Graduate School of Economics Major in Economics
Toshihiro ABE
Professor
Statistical science
Directional statistics, skew-symmetricmodels, statistical inference, data analysis
Munenobu Ikegami
Professor
Development economics
Household Intertemporal Decisions and Poverty Dynamics
Ryoko Umezu
Professor
Management accounting, cost accounting theory
Research into various current management accounting issues
Toshiyuki Okuyama
Professor
Theoretical economics
Market microanalysis, systems design
Kazumasa Oguro
Professor
Fiscal science, public economics
Analysis of inter-generational problems and of the link between demographics, politics and economy
Kazuhiro Ozawa
Professor
Data-processing theory
Research into techniques of data analysis through soft computing
Makoto Kawamura
Professor
Industrial organization theory
Statistical analyses employing industrial and macroeconomic data
Makito Kishi
Professor
Auditing
Corporate financial affairs and certified public accountancy auditing
Hiroko Goto
Professor
The history of British social thought
Changes in nation-states in the face of globalization
Katsuya Kobayashi
Professor
Regional financial theory
Analyses of intergovernmental relations and governmental organizations
Akio Kondo
Professor
Economic geography
Industrial clusters and economic development, global comparisons of location and division of labor, analysis of regional innovation systems
Tadashi Sakai
Professor
Labor economics
Social security (particularly un employment and long- term care insurance) and employment
Nobusumi Sagara
Professor
Optimum growth theory, functional analysis
Applied microeconomics, game theory
Ryusuke Shinohara
Professor
Public economics, game theory, microeconomics
Supply of public goods; strategic cooperative game theory
Peng Xu
Professor
Corporate finance
Corporate restructuring, determination of executive remuneration, economic analyses of share options, analyses of factors determining debt structure
Rikako Shindo
Professor
European economics
European Economic and Social History
Fumie Suga
Professor
Civil law (contract law), consumer law
Analysis of legal problems arising over gaps in negotiating power between contracting parties and unconscientious transactions
Mikio Suga
Professor
Economic statistics
Business registers, economic censuses, industrial input-output table
Takuma Sugahara
Professor
Economic policy, social policy, economics of medicine
Analysis of medical care, welfare and nursing policies, and medical supplies and the medical equipment industries
Miki Sugiura
Professor
World economic history
Distribution and consumption in medieval and modern cities
Yutaka Suzuki
Professor
Contract theory, industrial organization theory, enterprise theory
Corporate, contract, and organizational economics; game theory and its applications
Mitsuru Sunada
Professor
Industrial organization and Business Economics
Empirical study of firm behavior and its effect on market competition
Jess Diamond
Professor
Finance, macroeconomics, labor economics
Investment
Hidetomo Takahashi
professor
Finance
Verification of the effectiveness of stock markets, market microstructures
Keisuke Takeguchi
Professor
Accounting (financial accounting, international accounting)
Accounting for share-based payment, primarily share options
Koichi Takeda
Professor
Financial theory
Applied microeconomic analysis of finance
Kazutaka Takechi
Professor
International economics
Empirical analyses of the foreign direct investment strategies of Japanese companies
Yuki Tanaka
Professor
Financial accounting theory, environmental accounting
Corporate disclosure of environmental information
Akiko Tamura
Professor
Global economy, macroeconomics
International economic theories and empirical analyses
Yutaka Nagahara
Professor
Economic history and economic theory
Capital, labor, society, ideas
Eiichiro Nishizawa
Professor
Environmental policy theory
European and American environmental policy, devising environmentally friendly agriculture and farming villages
Jonghyun Park
Professor
Geography (urban geography)
International urban systems, Cross border relationships
Toshiyuki Baba
Professor
Asian economies, technology transfers, management of technology, higher education
Asian development and Japan’s roles, the economic impact of changing technologies
Toshiyuki Hirai
Professor
Game theory, microeconomics, public economics
Cooperative game analysis of information goods trading and public goods supply, matching theory
Midori Hirokawa
Professor
Social choice theory, public economics
Microeconomic fundamentals of systems formation
Tuan Khai Vu
Professor
Theoretical and empirical research in international macroeconomics
Economic growth, trade and foreign exchange regimes in Asia
Xinxin MA
Professor
Chinese economy, labor economics
Empirical studies of social security policy reform in China, empirical studies on labor market segmentation in China
Junya Matsunami
Professor
Environmental economics
Socioeconomic systems for the formation of recycling societies, economics research into waste products and recycling
Kenji Miyazaki
Professor
Econometrics
The econometrics of macroeconomics
Norihiko Miyawaki
Professor
Economic statistics, management science, data analysis
Analysis and information of business management, statistics and statistical applications
Satoshi Myojo
Professor
Empirical industrial organization, applied statistics
Market analysis and policy evaluation through structural estimation; statistical analysis techniques
Takeshi YAGIHASHI
Professor
Macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, applied econometrics
Use of macroeconomic models in public institutions, analysis of household behaviour in relation to consumption, leisure choices, and investment in health
Shoji Yumae
Professor
Finance
Risk management, computational finance
Yuki Inoue
Associate professor
Technology management; Innovation management
Analysis and design on Innovation, Platform strategy, and Business ecosystems
Ni Bin
Associate professor
International economics, development economics, applied econometrics
Empirical study on international trade, foreign direct investment, environment and economic development in developing nations
Junya Hamaaki
Associate Professor
Public economics, applied econometrics
Micro-econometric analysis of social security, taxation and labor area
Tomoki Hirase
Associate Professor
Economic doctrine, financial theory
Fluctuating commodity price levels
Hiroshi Morita
Associate professor
Macroeconomics, time series analysis
Empirical analysis on effects of monetary-fiscal policy