IR/PS Professor Takeo Hoshi to speak at UC San Diego Economics Roundtable
Topic: "Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis"
06/30/2010
Henry DeVries,
UC San Diego News Center
Award-winning Japanese economist Takeo Hoshi will speak on “Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis” at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 20 at the University of California, San Diego Faculty Club. The $50.00 per person cost to attend the Economics Roundtable includes continental breakfast and parking.
Hoshi is the Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor in International Economic Relations at the UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and at the Tokyo Center for Economic Research. His major research area is the financial aspect of the Japanese economy, especially corporate finance and governance.
Hoshi is the inaugural recipient of the 2006 Enjoji Jiro Memorial Prize, which is given every three years by Nihon Keizai Shimbun-sha (the Japanese equivalent of the Wall Street Journal) to three leading Japanese economists who work on policy issues. He is also the recipient of 2005 JEA-Nakahara Prize, which is awarded every year by the Japanese Economic Association to a Japanese economist with international recognition under the age of 45.
In 2002 he and co-author Anil Kashyap of the University of Chicago received the Nikkei Award for the best economic book: Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future.
The UC San Diego Economics Roundtable is organized by the UC San Diego Department of Economics in coordination with UC San Diego Extended Studies and Public Programs. The purpose of the Roundtable is to provide top business professionals and community leaders in the San Diego region with the opportunity to share the views and opinions of renowned experts in the fields of economics, finance, business and public policy.
For additional information and registration visit the Economics Roundtable site.
