Columbia Business School Alumni

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Coping with Crisis: Financial Policy in the U.S. and Japan

Presented by the Columbia Business School Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Columbia University Program for Economic Research

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

301 Uris Hall, Columbia University, New York, New York

Cost: Free of charge

This conference addresses future implications of the current financial crisis in terms of policies in the U.S. and Japan. Professor Heizo Takenaka, Director of the Global Security Research Institute at Keio University, former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications and former Minister of State for Privatization of the Postal Services will briefly share some lessons from Japanese experience, and focus his presentation on the direction of the new regulatory framework and the new Japanese government’s financial policies. 

This will be an inaugural event for CJEB’s new program, “New Financial Architecture-Japan & the U.S.”

Panelists
Heizo Takenaka
Director, Global Security Research Institute, Keio University; former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications; and former Minister of State for Privatization of the Postal Services

Patrick Bolton
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School 

Takatoshi Ito
Visiting Professor, Finance and Economics Division, Columbia University; Professor, The University of Tokyo

Commentator
Merit E. Janow
Professor of International Economic Law & International Affairs, Columbia University

Moderator
David Weinstein
Carl S. Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy, Columbia University; Associate Director for Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School

To register for this event, please go to http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/cjeb/events/financialpolicy

For any inquiries, please contact the Center on Japanese Economy and Business via e-mail at cjeb@columbia.edu or via phone at 212-854-3976.