Ryo Kato Web
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Email: rkato@imf.org
Contact info at IDEAS
Backgrounds:
1. Current position: Economist, Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund
2. 2006, Deputy Director, Bank of Japan
4. 1996-2006, Economist, Bank of
ｷ Ph.D. 2002,
Economics, The Ohio State University (Thesis adviser:
Professor Paul Evans)
ｷ M.A. 2000,
Economics, The
ｷ B.A. 1996,
Economics,
Journal publications:
ｷ "A Note on Pitfalls of
Credit Crunch Regression," Economics
Letters 99,
2008, pp.504-507.
A working paper version
is available here as
Econometric Society 2004 Far Eastern Meetings No
622.
A working paper version is available here as the Working
Papers 01-12,
Working papers:
ｷ "Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Long-term Interest Rates: A Macro-Finance Approach." (with Yoshifumi Hisata) to be presented at 2007 Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society.
ｷ "Monetary
Policy Uncertainty
and Market Interest Rates." (with
Yoshifumi Hisata) Bank
of
ｷ "Asymmetric
Effects of Monetary Policy: Japanese Experience in the 1990s." (with Takashi Ui and Tsutomu
Watanabe) Bank of
ｷ "Measuring Productivity Growth
over the 90s: Is the New Economy Still Alive?" (with Hironori Ishizaki) Bank of Japan International Department Working Paper #03-E-1.
A Japanese version is available
here.
2003.
ｷ "Reviewing US
Monetary Policy in Disinflation Era: A Primer" (with Yoko
Takeda)
Bank
of
Policy
papers and other
publications:
ｷ "Global
Disinflation" (with Yoshikazu
Morimoto and Wataru Hirata) Bank
of
Links:
ｷ My Text Book (in Japanese) NEW!!
ｷ Department of Economics, University of
Tokyo
ｷ Department of Economics, The Ohio State University
ｷ The Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real
Business Cycle Home Page
Disclaimer:
This is Ryo Kato's personal web site. The views expressed in the papers are not
those of the Bank of Japan, IMF or other institutions, but of
authors