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Takatoshi Ito

Takatoshi Ito

Associate Director of Research; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds: Center on Japanese Economy and Business

Professor (by courtesy): Finance Division

Contact: Office: 927 IAB; Phone: (212) 8546401; E-mail: tito@columbia.edu

Takatoshi Ito is one of Japan premier economists. A professor at the prestigious University of Tokyo, he is the author or co-author of several books on the Japanese and global economy. He served in the Japanese government as Deputy Vice Minister for International Finance in the Ministry of Finance and was a member of Japan’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. He has been a senior advisor in the research department of the International Monetary Fund and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.

Joined CBS: 2009

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Mishkin, Frederic and Takatoshi Ito. Two Decades of Japanese Monetary Policy and the Deflation Problem. November 01, 2004.

Explore Further about Two Decades of Japanese Monetary Policy and the Deflation Problem

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "Japan After Kishida" for Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Was Interviewed on Bloomberg about the Bank of Japan’s Policy

Bloomberg

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "The Bank of Japan's Go-Slow Policy Normalization" for Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Was Interviewed on Bloomberg about the Bank of Japan’s Bond Purchase Strategy

Bloomberg

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Was Quoted in the Bloomberg Article “BOJ May Raise Rates Two More Times in 2024, Columbia’s Ito Says”

Bloomberg

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on the "The Will, but Not the Way, to Increase Japan’s Defense Budget"

Project Syndicate

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Columbia University's Ito on BOJ Policy

Bloomberg

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Was Interviewed on Bloomberg about the Bank of Japan’s Outlook

Bloomberg

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Professor Takatoshi Ito on "What Did the Hiroshima G7 Summit Accomplish?" for Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Was Interviewed on Bloomberg about the Bank of Japan’s Outlook

Bloomberg

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on the "The UN Must Not Be Powerless" for Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito quoted in Bloomberg Article “Kuroda Ally Ito Sees Chance of BOJ Starting Policy Normalization in 2023”

Bloomberg

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CJEB's event featuring Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, was covered by NHK World-Japan in the article "Professor Explains Why Japan’s Prices Are So Low" and in other media outlets.

NHK World

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Professor Takatoshi Ito on "Abe Shinzō’s Unmatched Legacy" for Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote an Article in Japanese on U.S. Inflation and Monetary Policy for Nikkei

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "What Biden Should Do on Trade" for Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "Does Japan Vindicate Modern Monetary Theory?" for Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "Beware of Japan's 'New Capitalism'" for Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "Where Will Fumio Kishida Take Japan?" for Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "Japan's Four-Horse Race" for Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Quoted in the Pensions&Investments Article "CIO of Japan endowment faces investing headwinds"

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "Japan's Delta Desperation" for Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Quoted in the Pensions&Investments Article “Japan funds' private markets diversification proceeds slowly”

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Quoted in the New York Times Article “Inflation? Not in Japan. And That Could Hold a Warning for the U.S.”

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article “Japan’s Quiet Olympics” for Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article “An Olympic Size COVID Risk” for Project Syndicate

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Was Quoted in a Bloomberg Article about Japan’s GPIF and ESG Investment

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Was Quoted in a Bloomberg Article about Japan’s GPIF

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CJEB’s Professor Takatoshi Ito will speak on a Tokyo College Online Discussion Series

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Was Interviewed on NHK World about Economic Challenges for Japan’s Next Prime Minister

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CJEB’s Aug. 5 Webinar, “Central Banking in the COVID-19 Era,” moderated by Professor Takatoshi Ito, covered by news outlets including Bloomberg, Reuters, Asahi, NHK, and Nikkei.

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Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, spoke on NPR’s Planet Money podcast episode titled, “Inflation, Deflation”

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Professor Takatoshi Ito’s Article on COVID-19 and Monetary Policy in Japan Published by Nikkei

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A book Professor Takatoshi Ito coauthored, Managing Currency Risk: How Japanese Firms Choose Invoicing Currency, received the Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

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Professor Takatoshi Ito commented on Japan’s negative interest rates, BOJ policy, and the bond market on Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia

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Resurrecting Entrepreneurship to Revive Japan リチャード・カッツ

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U.S.-Japan Political Relations Under the New Leaders 「ニューリーダーの下での日米政治関係」

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U.S.-Japan Economic Relations Under the New Leaders「ニューリーダーの下での日米経済関係」

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A book Professor Takatoshi Ito coauthored, Managing Currency Risk: How Japanese Firms Choose Invoicing Currency, received the Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

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Reviving Japan's Economy: Problems and Prescriptions

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