Hiroshi Yoshikawa Explained

Hiroshi Yoshikawa
Native Name:	吉川 洋
Birth Date:	30 June 1951
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Institution:	Rissho University University of Tokyo Osaka University State University of New York
Field:	Macroeconomics
Alma Mater:	Yale University (Ph.D. 1978) Tokyo University (B.A. 1974)
Doctoral Advisor:	James Tobin^[1]
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is a Japanese economist and professor of Rissho University.^[2]

Yoshikawa was born in Tokyo.

He won the Nikkei Economic Book Award and the Suntory Award (1984), the Economist Award (1993) and the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award (2000).^[3]

Selected publications

Books

• Book: Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 1995 . Macroeconomics and the Japanese economy . Oxford; New York . . 9780198233268 .
• Book: Aoki . Masanao . Masanao Aoki . Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 2006 . Reconstructing macroeconomics: a perspective from statistical physics and combinatorial stochastic processes . Japan-U.S. Center Sanwa monographs on international financial markets . Cambridge; New York . . 9780521831062 .

Journal articles

• Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 1980 . On the "q" Theory of Investment . . 70 . 4 . 739–743 . 1803570 .
• Ueda . Kazuo . Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 1986 . Financial Volatility and the q Theory of Investment . . 53 . 3 . 11–27 . 10.2307/2554517 . 2554517 .
• Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . Ohtake . Fumio . 1987 . Postwar business cycles in Japan: A quest for the right explanation . . 1 . 4 . 373–407 . 10.1016/0889-1583(87)90007-4 .
• Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . Ohtake . Fumio . 1989 . An analysis of female labor supply, housing demand and the saving rate in Japan . . 33 . 5 . 997–1023 . 10.1016/0014-2921(89)90010-X .
• Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 1990 . On the Equilibrium Yen-Dollar Rate . American Economic Review . 80 . 3 . 576–583 . 2006686 .
• Motonishi . Taizo . Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 1999 . Causes of the Long Stagnation of Japan during the 1990s: Financial or Real? . Journal of the Japanese and International Economies . 13 . 3 . 181–200 . 10.1006/jjie.1999.0429 .
• Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 2000 . Technical progress and the growth of the Japanese economy - past and future . . 16 . 2 . 34–45 . 10.1093/oxrep/16.2.34 .
• Aoki . Masanao . Masanao Aoki . Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 2002 . Demand saturation-creation and economic growth . . 48 . 2 . 127–154 . 10.1016/S0167-2681(01)00229-3 .
• Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 2003 . The Role of Demand in Macroeconomics . . 54 . 1 . 1–27 . 10.1111/1468-5876.00242 . 154993664 .

Honours

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (2010)
• Person of Cultural Merit (2023)^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Aoki . Masanao . Masanao Aoki . Yoshikawa . Hiroshi . 2006 . Reconstructing macroeconomics: a perspective from statistical physics and combinatorial stochastic processes . Japan-U.S. Center Sanwa monographs on international financial markets . Cambridge; New York . . xvii . 9780521831062 .
2. Web site: 吉川 洋 . The Faculty of Economics at the Rissho University . 2016-05-08.
3. Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Japan's Lost Decade, LTCB International Library Trust/International House of Japan, Tokyo, March 2002
4. Web site: 塩野七生さんら7人文化勲章 功労者に北大路欣也さんら. October 22, 2023. Jiji Press.