Keiichiro Kobayashi

is a Japanese macroeconomist at the Keio University. His areas of expertise are endogenous growth theory, general equilibrium, business cycles, debt problems, debt control policy, and macropolitical economy. He received a Ph.D. in economics in 1998 from the University of Chicago. His dissertation The Division of Labor, the Extent of the Market, and Economic Growth was written under supervision of Robert Lucas, a prominent American economist and a Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 1995. Kobayashi was awarded the Nikkei Economics Book Award in 2001 and the Osaragi Jiro Critics Award in 2002, both for Trap of the Japanese Economy.

Biography Kobayashi is a professor of the Faculty of Economics at the Keio University. He is also a Faculty Fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, He earned his master's degree in engineering from the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago. He worked at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, and was a professor at the Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi University before becoming a professor in the Faculty of Economics, Keio University.

Education 1991 – M.S., Mathematical Engineering, the University of Tokyo 1998 – Ph.D., Economics, the University of Chicago

Experience April 1991 – Joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan) April 2001 – June 2007 Fellow, RIETI April 2003 – June 2007 Guest Editorial Writer, The Asahi Shimbun April 2005 – Visiting professor, Chuo University April 2007 – March 2009 Part-time Lecturer, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University June 2007 – March 2008 Executive Research Fellow, The Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan June 2007 – March 2013 Senior Fellow, RIETI April 2009 – Senior Fellow, The Tokyo Foundation April 2009 – Research Director, Canon Institute for Global Studies August 2010 – March 2013 Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University April 2010 – September 2010 Special Visiting professor, Faculty of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Keio University April 2013 – Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University April 2013 – Faculty Fellow, RIETI