DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Kiminori Matsuyama's research interests concern international trade, economic growth, and structural transformation, with the special focuses on exploring the mechanisms causing macroeconomic instability and inequality across countries, regions, and households. More recently, he works extensively on developing non-CES demand systems that are applicable in these areas. He is a Fellow of Econometric Society and a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. In 1996, he won the Nakahara Prize awarded annually to the best young economist by the Japanese Economic Association.