Date: Thursday, 20 November 2003
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: R405, CEP (Centre for Economic Performance) Conference Room
4th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory
Lionel Robbins Building (Library) - entrance in Portugal Street
London WC2
Speaker: Professor Toshihiko Kinoshita (Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University, and Visiting Research Fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research, Tokyo)
Discussant: Professor Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Chair: Professor Janet Hunter (Economic History Department and STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Professor Kinoshita is visiting Britain under the auspices of the Japanese Embassy. He has worked for many years for the Export-Import Bank of Japan (now the Japan Bank for International Cooperation) until retiring in 1996. Professor Kinoshita has sat on numerous key economic committees, and acted as economic adviser to a number of Asian governments. He has been affiliated to both the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Harvard Institute of International Development, and he has written a number of articles on the Japanese and Asian economies.
The lecture is free and open to all but, because space is limited, it is essential to book in advance by contacting Johanna Ruff , R517, STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE (email: j.ruff@lse.ac.uk).
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