David Weinstein (economist)

David Eli Weinstein (born February 5, 1964 ) is an American - British economist and university professor . He currently holds the Carl S. Shoup Chair in Japanese Economics at Columbia University .

Career, research and teaching

Weinstein studied at Yale University , which he left in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts . He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master of Arts in 1988 and completed his Ph.D. three years later. -Degree. Subsequently, Assistant Professor at Harvard University , he used the time to study several times in Japan, including at the University of Tokyo . In 1995 he was promoted to associate professor before returning to the University of Michigan in 1998. At the local business school, initially also an associate professor, he specialized in international and especially Japanese economics.

In 1999, Weinstein accepted a call from Columbia University at the Carl S. Shoup Chair in Japanese Economics. At the same time, he started advising various Federal Reserve Banks in the Federal Reserve System from 2000 and took on a deputy director post for Japanese economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research .

Weinstein's research focuses on the background and development of the Japanese economy, and he regularly gives lectures on this topic. He is also interested in international trade , corporate finance and industrial policy . He has received multiple awards for his work from the National Science Foundation and is a fellow of both the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation .

Works

The following list shows books published by him, and he has also written numerous magazine articles and working papers.

• Reviving Japan's Economy: Problems and Prescriptions , editor with Takatoshi Ito and Hugh T. Patrick (2005)
• Prices, Poverty, and Inequality with Christian Broda (2008)

Web links

• Official website at Columbia University
• David Weinstein in the IDEAS database