IR/PS Professor Takeo Hoshi wins 2005 Nakahara Prize
11/14/2005
Paula Cichocka,
Professor Takeo Hoshi of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), was recently awarded the 2005 Nakahara Prize by the Japanese Economics Association. The prize honors economists under the age of 45 who have produced internationally recognized research. It is Japan's closest equivalent to the biennial John Bates Clark Medal in the United States for outstanding economists under the age of 40.
IR/PS Dean Peter Cowhey comments, "This is a major honor for Professor Hoshi. His colleagues at IR/PS have long admired his pioneering research on the Japanese financial system. This prize demonstrates that his peers in the economics profession share our assessment."
Hoshi, who is the Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor of International Economic Relations at UCSD, is an authority on the Japanese economy and its financial system, especially corporate finance and governance. Co-author of the highly regarded Corporate Finance and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future (MIT Press, 2001), Hoshi has been at the forefront of analyzing both the theoretical and empirical issues of the Japanese banking problem in the 1990s.
Established in 1986, UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) is the premiere and only U.S. professional school offering business-savvy training with a focus on policy, economics and technology in the Pacific Rim. IR/PS is shaping the Pacific Century by training its leaders, creating ideas and supporting networks to build a Pacific community. More information on the graduate program and its faculty can be found on its web site at: http://irps.ucsd.edu.
IR/PS Media Contact: Paula Cichocka, (858) 534-1465, pcichocka@ucsd.edu
