"GM's Plight Is a Slippery Slope for Toyota"
Hugh Patrick, Director of Center on Japanese Economy and Business, was featured on the Columbia Business School's blog "Public Offering" in a post titled "GM's Plight Is a Slippery Slope for Toyota."
Professors Hugh Patrick, David Weinstein discuss state of Japan's Economy at the NY Federal Reserve
The Japan Table at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on March 26 hosted an informal panel discussion on the Japanese economy, focusing on macroeconomic and monetary policy in Japan, and lessons for the United States. The panelists in order of appearance were Richard Katz, editor of The Oriental Economist; David Weinstein, Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy and Associate Director for Research of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University; Nami Numoto, Deputy General Manager of the Chief Representative Office for the Americas, Bank of Japan; Hugh Patrick, Director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia University; and Alicia Ogawa, Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs and Senior Advisor to the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia University.
New Submissions to the CJEB Working Paper Series
The Center on Japanese Economy and Business Working Paper Series has recently published eleven new installments.
Video available for the symposium "Japan's Solar and Wind Ambitions: How Promising is the U.S. Market?" held on February 5 in New York
Video available for the symposium "Japan's Solar and Wind Ambitions: How Promising is the U.S. Market?" held on February 5 in New York
CJEB Associate Director David Weinstein quoted in Bloomberg article on U.S. economy.
CJEB Associate Director David Weinstein was quoted in a Feb. 27 Bloomberg article, titled "Obama Must Defeat Spite on Bailouts to Beat Recession (Update1)".
March 3 Brown Bag Lecture- "Yankee Capitalist Go Home: The Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1930s Japan." CJEB Graduate Fellow Vivien Ng reports
A look at America's iconic Singer sewing machine company sheds light on some of the lessons earlier American capitalists learned when venturing abroad. On March 3, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business cosponsored a lecture titled "Yankee Capitalist Go Home: The Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1930s Japan." The guest speaker Andrew D. Gordon is a Professor of History at Harvard University, where he is also director of the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. Hugh Patrick, director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School, moderated the event.
March 2 Zadankai - "Current Economic Conditions in Japan and Asia." CJEB Graduate Fellow Shari Cooperman reports
On March 2, 2009, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) and the Japan Business Association of Columbia Business School hosted a zadankai (informal discussion) titled "Current Economic Conditions in Japan and Asia." Naoyuki Yoshino, professor of economics at Keio University in Tokyo and a member of Japan's Ministry of Finance, led the conversation; Professor Hugh Patrick, director of CJEB, served as the moderator.
New Submission to the CJEB Working Paper Series by David Weinstein and Christain Broda, "Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices"
New Submission to the CJEB Working Paper Series by David Weinstein and Christain Broda, "Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices"
Hugh Patrick discusses the impact of the global economic crisis on Japan. Watch the video.
Jane Trombley, Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Communications, interviewed Hugh Patrick, Director of Center on Japanese Economy and Business.