Ryo Kato Web Page

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Backgrounds:

2009-  Senior Economist, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan

2006-2009, Economist, Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund

1996-2006, Bank of Japan

Ph.D. 2002, Economics, The Ohio State University 

M.A. 2000, Economics, The Ohio State University

B.A. 1996, Economics, University of Tokyo


Journal publications:

"A Note on Pitfalls of Credit Crunch Regression," Economics Letters 99, 2008, pp.504-507.         

"Liquidity, Infinite Horizons and Macroeconomic Fluctuations," European Economic Review 50, 2007, pp. 1105-1130.

 "Optimal Monetary Policy When Interest Rates are Bounded at Zero," (with Shin-Ichi Nishiyama) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29. 2005. pp. 97-133.

Policy papers and other publications:

"Global Disinflation,"(with Yoshikazu Morimoto and Wataru Hirata)Bank of Japan Research Papers, June 2003.  

"Lectures on Modern Macroeconomics: Introduction to DSGE Models," Book in Japanese [ISBN-10: 4492313702] Chuo-ku Tokyo, Toyo Keizai Inc., 2007. 


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