Ryo Kato Web
Page
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
Ph.D. 2002,
Economics, The Ohio State University (Thesis adviser:
Professor Paul Evans)
M.A. 2000,
Economics, The
B.A. 1996,
Economics,
Journal publications:
"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:
"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.
"Monetary
Policy Uncertainty
and Market Interest Rates." (with
Yoshifumi Hisata) Bank
of
"Asymmetric
Effects of Monetary Policy: Japanese Experience in the 1990s." (with Takashi Ui and Tsutomu
Watanabe) Bank of
"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.
"Reviewing US
Monetary Policy in Disinflation Era: A Primer" (with Yoko
Takeda)
Bank
of
Policy
papers and other
publications:
"Global
Disinflation" (with Yoshikazu
Morimoto and Wataru Hirata) Bank
of
Links:
Department of Economics, University of
Tokyo
Department of Economics, The Ohio State University
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