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Publication

• “Foreign Direct Investment and Regulatory Remedies for Banking Crises: Lessons from Japan” (with Linda Allen and Suparna Chakraborty), Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 42, no. 7 (May 2011), 875-893. working paper version with a slightly different title
• “Information Verifiability, Bank Organization, and Bank Competion: The Benefit of Bank-Borrower Relationships in Japan” (with Masaji Kano, Hirofumi Uchida and Gregory Udell), Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 35, no. 4, (April, 2011) 935-954.
• “Does a Large Loss of Bank Capital Cause Evergreening? Evidence from Japan,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 24, no1 (March 2010).
• “Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 22, no. 2 (June, 2008), (co-authored with Hirofumi Uchida and Gregory F. Udell).

· “Prudential Regulation and the “Credit Crunch”: Evidence from Japan,” working paper version, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 39, no. 2-3 (March/April 2007).

· “Household Saving in Japan,” The Japanese Economic Review, vol. 52, no. 2 (June 2001) (co-authored with David W. Campbell)

· “A Comparison of Household Asset/Saving Surveys in Japan,” Economic Review (Keizai Kenkyu), vol. 51, no. 1 (January 2000), (co-authored with David W. Campbell)

• “Are Americans More Altruistic than the Japanese? A U.S.-Japan Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives,” International Economic Journal, vol 14, no.1 (Spring 2000), (co-authored with Charles Yuji Horioka, Hideki Fujisaki, and Takatsugu Kouno)
• “Why Do People Save? A Micro^Analysis of Motives for Household Saving in Japan,” Economic Journal, vol 107, no.442 (May 1997), (co-authored with Charles Yuji Horioka) (lead article of May 1997 issue)
• “Do the Aged Dissave in Japan? Evidence from Micro Data,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 10, no. 3 (September 1996), (co-authored with Charles Yuji Horioka, Norihiro Kasuga and Katsuyo Yamazaki)

Working Paper

• “Bank Size and Bank Balance Sheet Effects on Loan Pricing: Evidence from Main Bank - Small and Medium Enterprize Relationships in Japan”
• “Are Trade Creditors Relationship Lenders?” (with Hirofumi Uchida and Gregory Udell).
• “An Estimation of the Inside-Bank Premium” (with Tadanobu Nemoto and Yoshiaki Ogura).
• “The Deposit Insurance and the Risk-shifting Incentive: Evidence from the Blanket Deposit Insurance in Japan,” (with Brahim Guizani)
• “Do Governmental Finacial Institutions Help Startups Grow? Evidence from Japan,” (with Hikaru Fukanuma and Tadanobu Nemoto), was presented at "Public versus Private Ownership of Financial Institutions", a conference hosted by Center for Financial Studies, an der Universitat Frankfurt.

Work in Progress

Teaching

     Tohoku Short Program

• Lecture note (12/8)
• Lecture note (1/19)

TMU09 Monetary Policy and Banking