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OKUMURA, Ryuhei

Research interest

The international macroeconomics is a subject of research. In particular, the relation between exchange rates and the international balance of payment, the international interdependence of macroeconomic policies, the problem of exhaustible resources and environments are studied.

Seminar (C) outline [subject name : International Economics]

(The first half of a doctoral course)
By reading the literature of international economics, an understanding of international macro-economics is deepened and it is considered as preparation of the coming doctoral paper creation.
(The second half of a doctoral course)
Research is deepened by the presentation of a paper in preparation, and by criticizing a paper each other.

Profile

  • 1948: Born in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture.
  • 1971: Graduated from School of Economics, Tohoku University.
  • 1976: Completed Doctoral Course of Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University.
    Associate Professor of School of Humanities, Hirosaki University etc.
  • 1985-86: Visiting Scholar of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Fulbright researcher).
  • Doctor of Economics (Nagoya University).
  • Standing Director of the Society of International Economics
  • Director of Japanese Economics Society

Publications

Works :
  • Theory of the Floating Exchange Rate System (revised edition), Nagoya University Press, 1989.4 (in Japanese).
  • Economics of a Capital Exporting Countries, volume in collaboration with ONITSUKA Yusuke ed., Research Institute of The Ministry International Trade and Industry, 1985.6 (in Japanese).
  • Economics of External Imbalance, volume in collaboration with SUDA Miyako ed., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1992.4 (in Japanese).
Papers :
  • "Exchange Rate Expectations and Monetary Policy - the Case of Two Countries and Adaptive Expectations -," The Economic Studies Quarterly 1980.12 (in Japanese).
  • "A Floating Exchange Rate and Monetary and Fiscal Policies - Mundell Theory and its Development -," UZAWA and ONIZUKA ed. Theory of International Finance, University of Tokyo Press, 1983.5 (in Japanese).
  • "Economic Development and International Balance-of-payment" OTSUKI, SASAKI and KAMOIKE ed. Deployments of Modern Economic Theory, Bokutakusha, 1987.8 (in Japanese).
  • "Real-shocks and Monetary-shocks," ONIZUKA and IWAI ed., Contemporary Economics Research, University of Tokyo Press 1988.7(in Japanese).
  • "Assistance to Developing Countries and Current Balance Surplus of Japan," Economic Science, 1988.7(in Japanese).
  • "External Debt and Capital Accumulation," Matsugi and Dams ed. Protectionism or Liberalism, Nagoya University Press, 1989.3 (in Japanese).
  • "Time Preference, International Capital Mobility, and External Asset Accumulation," Annals of the Institute of Social Science 35, 1993, with Masahiro KAWAI.
  • "Productive Government Expenditures and the Current Account," The Japanese Economic Review, 1998.
  • "A Consideration of Dynamic-welfare Effects of Capital Movements," Economic Science, 2000.3 (in Japanese).
  • "International Macroeconomics" Michihiro Oyama ed. The Horizon of International Economic Theory, Toyo Keizai Shinpo-Sha 2001.4.
  • "Sustainable Consumption in a Semi-open Economy with Exhaustible Resources," forthcoming in Japanese Economic Review, with Cai, D.

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