RIEB, Kobe University

Global Economy Unit

Title	Researchers	Research Fields	Individual Research Projects	Personal Web Page
Professor	Shoji NISHIJIMA	Emerging Market	Research on Development Strategy and Regional Integration in Latin America
Professor	Laixun ZHAO	International Economy	International Trade, Foreign Investment, Multinational Labor-Management Relations, Pollution
Professor	Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI	Regional Integration	Economic integration and development in Asia and Latin America from the view point of new economic geography models
Professor	Hiroyuki HINO	Economic Development Strategy	Professor responsible for serving as an Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya, Economics of Diversity, African Economy
Professor	Hiroki YASUI	joint appointment with the Graduate School of Law	Globalization, European integration, and the structural change of party politics in Germany.
Associate Professor	Takahiro SATO	Emerging Market	Research on economic reforms in India and labor market in India

Corporate Competitiveness Unit

Title	Researchers	Research Fields	Individual Research Projects	Personal Web Page
Professor	Kenji KOJIMA	Corporate Governance	Theoretical and Empirical Research on Corporate Governance
Professor	Ken-Ichi SHIMOMURA	Industrial Organization	Economic Theory, Experimental Economics: Analysis of Market Structure
Professor	Munehiko ITOH	Innovation Management	The Analysis for Industrial and Enterprise Competitiveness in Japanese Firm
Professor	Fumio DEI	joint appointment with the Graduate School of Business Administration	Trade Theory: Dumping and Offshoring
Associate Professor	Ralf BEBENROTH	Corporate Governance	Merger & Acquisition, Human Resource Management and International Business
Associate Professor	Yoichi MATSUMOTO	Innovation Management	Strategy and management for profiting from innovations at global competitions

Corporate Information Unit

Title	Researchers	Research Fields	Individual Research Projects	Personal Web Page
Professor	Hidetoshi YAMAJI	Disclosure	Experimental Research on Spreading Process of Different Information in Stock Market
Professor	Masahiro TOMITA *	Corporate Records Analysis	Modern Development in European Shipping
Professor	Masayoshi NOGUCHI	Accounting Information Analysis	Internal Control and Financial Auditing in an Historical Perspective
Professor	Masanobu ISHIKAWA	joint appointment with the Graduate School of Economics	Enviro-economic analysis of material flows
Associate Professor	Satoshi FUJIMURA	Corporate Records Analysis	Analysis on Economic Structure in the Edo Period and the Growth of Trading Company 1868-1941
Associate Professor	Akinobu SHUTO	Accounting Information Analysis	Empirical Analysis on Earnings Management Behavior
Associate Professor	Katsuhiko MURAMIYA	Accounting Information Analysis	Capital Markets-Based Research in Financial Accounting

* stands for joint appointment with ICCA.

Global Finance Unit

Title	Researchers	Research Fields	Individual Research Projects	Personal Web Page
Professor	Hideki IZAWA	International Monetary System	Economic Analysis on the International Monetary and Financial System
Professor	Takashi KAMIHIGASHI **	Macroeconomic Policy Analysis	Dynamic optimization and macroeconomic dynamics
Professor	Wataru TAKAHASHI	International Monetary Policy	Monetary Economics and Central Banking, Financial Integration in East Asia
Associate Professor	Shigeto KITANO	International Monetary Policy	International Macroeconomics: Globalization and Policy Responses
Associate Professor	Masahiko SHIBAMOTO	International Monetary Policy	Empirical Studies on Macroeconomic Effects of Japanese Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Associate Professor	Yasuo TAKATSUKI	Microeconomic Policy Analysis	Empirical Analysis on Pre-modern Economy and Institutional Analysis on Japanese Financial Market

** stands for joint appointment with Office of Promoting Research Collaboration.

Integrated Center for Corporate Archives (ICCA)

Office of Promoting Research Collaboration

Title	Researchers	Individual Research Projects	Personal Web Page
Professor	Takashi KAMIHIGASHI	Dynamic optimization and macroeconomic dynamics

Visiting Researcher

Part-time Research Associate

Adjunct Researchers (in Japanese)

Works of Late Professor Koji Shimomura