my face Kimie Harada (Dr.)
Associate Professor

Graduate School of International Accounting
Chuo University
Ichigaya Campus
Honmura-cho 42-8, Ichigaya, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-8473 Japan
813-5368-3674 [ Phone(direct) ]
813-5368-3515 [ Fax ]
Last update : May 19,2009

kimieh@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp

Japanese version is here


Profile

Academic Background

Ph.D. in Economics, 2003, University of Tokyo.

M.A. in Economics, 1996,University of Tokyo.

B.A. in Economics, 1993, University of Osaka.

Employment (full time)

2004-current, Associate professor, Graduate School of International Accounting, Chuo University.

2001-2004, Lecturer, Daito Bunka University.

1997-2001, Researcher, Japan Securities Research Institute.

Current Visiting Academic Positions

2009, April - Workshop member, Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

2001, April - Visiting researcher, Japan Securities Research Institute.

Current Other Positions

2000- Associate Editor, Securities Analysts Journal, The Security Analysts Association of Japan.

Past Research & Academic Positions

2008, April - 2009, March, Visiting associate professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

2007, April - 2007, June, Lecturer, Ministry of Finance Japan, Policy Research Institute.

2006, April - 2006, June, Lecturer, Ministry of Finance Japan, Policy Research Institute.

2004, July - 2004, August, Visiting Fellow Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.

2002, June- 2004, March, Visiting researcher, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo.

2003,October-2004,February, Lecturer, The Nippon Technical Analysts Association.

2003,October-2003,November, Lecturer, Development Bank of Japan.

2003,April-2003,June, Lecturer, Economic and Social Research Institute Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

2002,January-2002,March, Lecturer, Institute of Statistical Research.

2001,April-2002,March, Visiting researcher, Institute for Posts and Telecommunications.

2001,April-2002,March, Committee member, Structured Finance Institute of Japan.

2001,April-2002,March, Lecturer, Yokohama National University.

1999,November-2000,March, Lecturer, Takachiho University.

1999,August-1999,December, Lecturer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

1996,October-1998,March, Lecturer, Tokyo Accounting Center.


Research

Papers in English including working papers

"Did Mergers Help Japanese Mega-Banks Avoid Failure? Analysis of the Distance to Default of Banks",(with Takatoshi Ito), NBER Working Paper No.14518,2008.

"Effects of the Bank of Japan's Intervention on Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate Volatility",(with Toshiaki Watanabe), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.Volume 20, Issue1, 2006

"Japan Premium and Stock Prices: Two Mirrors of Japanese Banking Crises", (with Takatoshi Ito), International Journal of Finance & Economics.Volume 10, Issue 3, 2005.

"Dividend signaling in Context: Evidence from Japan",(with Pascal Nguyen), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. Volume 13/5, November 2005.

"Measuring the Efficiency of Banks: Successful mergers in the Korean Banking Sector", Working Paper CNAEC Research Series 05-03, 2005 Korea Institute for International Economic Policy .

"Did Efficiency Improve? Megamergers in Japanese Banking Sector", Working Paper CNAEC Research Series 05-02, 2005 Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.

"Market Evaluations of Banking Fragility in Japan: Japan Premium, Stock Prices and Credit Derivatives",(with Takatoshi Ito), NBER Working Paper No.9589.

"Credit Derivatives Premium as a New Japan Premium",(with Takatoshi Ito), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 36(5), 2004

"News Effects on High Frequency Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate and its Volatility Behavior," (with Toshiaki Watanabe), mimeograph, 2009.

"Is the Distance to Default a Good Measure in Predicting Bank Failures? Case Studies," (with Takatoshi Ito and Shuhei Takahashi), mimeograph, 2008.

"Mega-Mergers in Japan: Economic Reasons and Performances," (with Takatoshi Ito), mimeograph, 2008.

"Does Industrial Organization Explain the Dividend Policy of Japanese Firms?",(with Pascal Nguyen), mimeograph.

Chapters in book (in English)

"Bank Fragility in Japan: 1995-2003," (with Takatoshi Ito), in "Japan's Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for Advanced Economies", edited by Michael Hutchison and Frank Westermann, the MIT Press Inc. 2006.

"Macroeconomic Implications of the New Basel Accord for Japan:Strengthened Soundness by the New Accord,"Adapting the New Basel Accord: Impact and Policy Responses of Asia-Pacific Developing Countries,Hyeon-Wook Kim and HyunSong Shin,the KDI,2006.

"The Impact of Basel II on Japanese Banks," (with Adrian van Rixtel and Ioana Alexopoulou), in The New Basel Capital Accord edited by Benton E. Gup, the South-Western Inc. 2004.

Papers in Japanese

"integration and Consolidation of Japanese Regional Banks", CGSA Forum, Chuo University, March 2009.

"Consolidation and Efficiency of Japanese City Banks", Security Analysts Journal, The Security Analysts Association of Japan, March 2004.

"Banks' Presence in the Securitization Market", Structured Finance Institute of Japan, The Structured Finance Journal, March 2003.

"Securitization Market and Credit Derivatives Market: The Relation and Situation", The JSRI Journal of Financial and Securities Markets, March 2003.

"Japan's Banking Crises: Empirical Findings with the Japan Premium and Stock Price (Japan Premium to Kabuka niyoru Ginko Kiki no Bunseki, with Takatoshi Ito)", University of Tokyo, The Journal of Economics, April 2002.

"Financial Companies' Asset Securitization and Bank Lending Attitude: Causality and Relationship", Structured Finance Institute of Japan, The Structured Finance Journal, March 2002.

"Coordinated Intervention Operations, Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate Market and the Confidence of the Dollar, Economic Research, Daito Bunka University Institute of Economic Research, April, 2002.

"The Survey of Financial Securitization Analyses", The JSRI Journal of Financial and Securities Markets, November 2001.

"The Institutional Role of Financial Securitization", The JSRI Journal of Financial and Securities Markets, July 2001.

"The Impairment of Japan's Financial System and the role of Securitization", The JSRI Journal of Financial and Securities Markets , March 2001.

"Perceived Bank of Japan Intervention An Empirical study of the Effect", (with Toshiaki Watanabe), Annals of Society for the Economic Studies of Securities, 2001.

"Financial Crises News and Its Effect on Stock Prices",(with Takatoshi Ito), Annals of Society for the Economic Studies of Securities, 2000.

"The establishment of Tokyo Offshore Market and Its Financial Integration", The JSRI Journal of Financial and Securities Markets, September 1998.

"Foreign Debt Problems and Capital Freight (curtailed version)", Osaka Economic Paper, Vol.42, 1993.

Working Papers

"The Effect of Public Capital Injection: Views from Stock and Debt Holders", Daito Bunka University Institute of Economic Research, Working Paper No.23, September, 2002.

"Depositor's Reaction under the Japanese Financial System Instability", Daito Bunka University Institute of Economic Research, Working Paper No.24, September, 2002.

Chapters in book (in Japanese)

"Derivative market and Securitization Market",in Shoken Sijyo Dokuhon 2, Toyo Keizai, 2006.

"Capital Injection and the Event Study" in Nihon no Kinyu Mondai, Nippon-Hyoron-Sha Co.,Ltd.,2003.

"Related topics on Asset Backed Securities Market" in Kinyu Sijyo no Henbo to Shoken Keiei, Japan Securities Research Institute,2001.

"The Securitized Products Market" in Securities Market in Japan 2000(Japanese version), Japan Securities Research Institute, 2000; Securities Market in Japan 2001(English version).

"Asset Backed Securities Market" in Shoken Keiei no Frontier, Frontier of Securities Business Management, Seibunsha, 1999.

Other Articles

Others are here


Presentation

Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, Tokyo University, August, 2009

Japan Economic Association, Kyoto University, June 2009

Nippon Finance Association, Aoyama Gakuin University, May 2008

Japan Economic Association, Kinki University, September, 2008

NBER Japan Group Meetings, Tokyo, July, 2008

Korea and the World Economy, Seoul Korea, June, 2008

Japan Economic Association, Tohoku University, June, 2008

Asia Pacific Economic Association, Hong Kong, July, 2007

Asia Pacific Economic Association, Hong Kong, July 2007

Korea and the World Economy, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S., Decemer 2005

Korea Development Economic Association, Seoul, Korea, October 2005

Japan Economic Association, Chuo University, Tokyo, September 2005

RIETI, Tokyo, September 2005

JBIC Seminar, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2005

APEA (Asia Pacific Economic Association, Hitotshibashi University, Tokyo, September 2005

Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Seoul, Korea, September 2004

Far Eastern Meetings of The Econometric Society,Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, July 2004

Macro/Finance Workshop, Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University, February 2004

Public Economy Seminar,

Keio University, October 2003

Seminar,Graduate School of International Accounting, Chuo University, October 2003

Financial Services Agency,Financial Research and Training Center, Jnly 2003

Society for the Economic Studies of Securities Meeting,Kanagawa University, Kanagawa, June 2003

Nippon Finance Association Meeting, Musashi University, Tokyo, June 2003

American Economic Association, Washington D.C. U.S.A., January 2003

TCER and Macro Workshop SeminorHitotsubashi University, Tokyo, November, 2002

International Symposium on East Asian Region, Seoul Korea, October, 2002

Japan Economic Association Meeting, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, October, 2002

APFA/PACAP/FMA Conference, Tokyo, July, 2002

Japan Economic Association Meeting, Otaru University of Commerce, June, 2002

Finance Forum Conference, Ministry of Public Management, Funabashi, February, 2002

Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy, Ministry of Public Management, Tokyo, October, 2001

Japan Economic Association Meeting, Hitotsubashi University, October 2001

NBER Japan Group Meetings, Tokyo, September 2001

Far Eastern Econometrics Society Meetings, Kobe, July 2001

Nippon Finance Association Meeting, Tokyo, June 2001

Japan Economic Association Meeting, Hiroshima, May 2001

American Economic Association, New Orleans, January 2001

RIEB Seminar, Kobe University, Kobe, December 2000

Society for the Economic Studies of Securities Meeting, Nagoya, November 2000

Kansai Economic Research Center, Osaka, July 2000

Nippon Finance Association Meeting, Tokyo, June 2000

Japan Economic Association Meeting, Yokohama, May 2000

TCER Seminar,Keio University, Tokyo, December 1999

Society for the Economic Studies of Securities Meeting, Shiga, November 1999

Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy, October 1999

Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies Bank of Japan, October 1999

Japan Economic Association Meeting, Osaka, September 1997

Macro Workshop, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, January 1996

Other Presentation

Nippon Finance Association, Discussant, University of Tokyo, June 2006, Tokyo

Annals of Society for the Economic Studies of Securities, Discussant, Dokkyo University, June 2006, Tokyo

Global Shadow Financial Regulatory Commiittee, Yonsei University, Korea, October 2005

Japan Society of Monetary Economics, Discussant, October 2005, Osaka University, Osaka

Annals of Society for the Economic Studies of Securities, Discussant, June 2004, Saitama University, Saitama

Nippon Finance Association, Discussant, Chuo University, June 2004, Tokyo

CES Ifo Venice Summer Institute, July 2003, Venice, Italy

APFA/PACAP/FMA Conference, Discussant, July 2002, Tokyo

Japan Economic Association Meeting, Discussant, Otaru University of Commerce, June 2002, Hokkaido

Nippon Finance Association Meeting, Discussant, June 2002, Tokyo

International Symposium on East Asian Region, Discussant, December 2001, Taipei, Taiwan

The Institute of Economic Research Symposium, Panelist, Daito Bunka University, November 2001, Tokyo


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