Masaaki Shirakawa

is a Japanese economist and the 30th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and professor at Aoyama Gakuin University. He is also a Director and Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Early life Shirakawa was born in Fukuoka. and he graduated from high school in Kokura.

In 1972, he was awarded a B.A. degree at the University of Tokyo. In 1977, he earned an M.A. in Economics at the University of Chicago.

Career Shirakawa joined the Bank of Japan in 1972. His varied assignments at the bank included a period as General Manager at the Ōita branch. For a time, he was General Manager for the Americas at the bank's office in New York City.

Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Masaaki Shirakawa, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 20+ publications in 3 languages and 110+ library holdings.

The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments and the Exchange Rate: an Empirical Study of Japan's Case (1980) 図說日本銀行 (1993) Financial Market Globalization: Present and Future (1997) The Asset Price Bubble and Monetary Policy: Japan's Experience in the Late 1980s and the Lessons (2000) "One Year Under Quantitative Easing" (2002) Japan's Deflation, Problems in the Financial System and Monetary Policy (2005) De-leveraging and Growth: Is the Developed World Following Japan's Long and Winding Road? (2012) Tumultuous Times: Central Banking in an Era of Crisis (2021)