OHTA, Hideaki
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Specialization/Discipline
Research Topic
1. Empirical and theoretical analyses on the effects of international capital flows, including ’Capital Account Crises’
2. Framework and measures for capital and financial management and controls
3. The programs of Bretton Woods Organizations (IMF, World Bank)
4. Stabilization of international financial systems/ architectures
5. Policy measures for sustainable and stable economic development and growth
6. Monetary policies in the context of international monetary and financial economics
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Advised Master’s Thesis (Last 5 years)
- SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM: LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE EAST ASIAN EXPERIENCES
- Improvement of the fiscal management of public investments in the Kyrgyz Republic
- Exploring the Development of the SMEs in Gansu Province
- Improvement in Export through Promotion of the Carpet Industry in Nepal
- The Obstacles of Small and Medium Sized Entrepreneurs (SMEs) Finance in Lao PDR Case Study: SME Finance in Vientiane Capital
- Effective Measures for Tax Collection: Study of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Banyumas Regency, Indonesia
- The Use of Accounting Information on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Lao PDR Case Study: Manufacturing SMEs in Vientiane Capital City
- Developing Business Plans in Lao SMEs
- Tourism and Economic Growth in Nepal: A study on the prospects and challenges of tourism & economic growth
- Factor Affecting the Nonperforming Loans in Microfinance Institutions in Lao PDR
- Challenges in Improving Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Lending in Laos
- Policy Measures of Government and Relevant Institutions to Strengthen SME Finance in Lao PDR
Advised Doctoral Dissertations
- Regional Value Chains and the Japanese Automotive Production Network in Southeast Asia (日本企業によるASEAN自動車生産ネットワーク構築と地域ヴァリューチェーン(RVC)の変化)
- Domestic Savings Mobilization: A Tool for Closing Investment-Savings Gap in Lao PDR(ラオスにおける国内貯蓄の活用-貯蓄・投資ギャップ解消に向けた考察と提言-)
- Public debt sustainability for development in Vietnam
- Analysing the information communication technology diffusion to ASIAN economic growth: empirical evidence from the 2000-2018 period
Related News
[Papers/Publications]
• IMF: Its mission and failures*, Chuo Koron Shinsha, September 2009
• International Monetary Fund (IMF): Tasks and Failures*(2009, Chuo Koron Shinsha Pub.)* in Japanese
•Economics of Capital Management and Controls*(2012, Nihon Hyoronsha Pub.)
•Capital Market and Rating Agencies in Asia: Structuring a Credit Risk Rating Model [Ch.4: India; Ch.7:Pakistan; Ch.10: Philippines], Nova Science Publishers, N.Y. 2012
• Economics of Capital Controls*, Nihon Hyoronsha Pub., 2012• Impact of Increasing Capital Flows on the Real Economy and Financial Markets in Japan: Ineffectiveness of Monetary Policy Instruments, Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies Vol.12, 2013
• Evaluation of Monetary Easing Policy in Japan: Integration between the US and Japanese Markets, Working Paper Series, The International Studies Association of Ritsumeikan University, IR2014/ 3, 23, September 2014• IMF and New International Financial Regime*, Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha Pub., 2016
•IMF and International Financial Regimes*(2016, Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha Pub.)
• The Effects of International Capital Flows on Domestic Savings, Investment and Growth: Facts on 'F-H Puzzle' in OECD and Emerging Economies, Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies Vol. 14, January 2016
• Evaluation of the Effects of Capital Inflows on the Real Economy and Monetary /Financial Sector in Indonesia: Lessons from the Post-IMF Policy Reform on Capital Account Management and Controls, Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies, Vol.15, 27-62 December 2016
• Economic Growth through Distribution of Income in Japan: Road to Stable Economic Growth with Progressive Income Tax System, Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies Vol. 30 No.1, 81-111, June 2017
• Why the monetary easing under 'Abenomics' has been ineffective in recovery of the Japanese economy? Integration of the markets between the US and Japan, Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies, No.16, 37-66, December 2017
•The Effects of Bank of Japan’s Monetary Easing Policy on the Economies and Markets in China and Hong Kong*, Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies, Vol.31 No.1:133-178. 2018 * in Japanese
•Re-evaluation of the Bank of Japan's monetary easing policy after the Global Financial Crisis, Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies, Vo.18:1-42, 2019
•New Facts on the ‘F-H Puzzle’ in OECD countries: The Effects of International Capital Flows on Domestic Savings, Investment and Growth, Paper for Japan Society for Monetary Economics, Spring May 2019.
•The Effects of International Capital Flows on Domestic Savings, Investment and Growth: Changes in the 'F-H Puzzle' in Emerging Economies, Paper for Japan Society of International Economics, September. 2019
• ’Effects of Monetary Easing Policy in Japan on the Markets in Hong Kong and China after the Global Financial Crisis’ Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies Vol.19 2020
•Failure of the IMF Programme for Argentina and Importance of Capital Flow Management and Controls, Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies*, Vol.32 No.4, March 2020
•'The consequences of labour market liberalisation and non-regular employment: the ‘lost 30 years’ of the Japanese economy’ Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies NO.21, October, 2022
•Successful Capital Controls under the IMF programme in Iceland, The Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies, Vol.36-2, October, 2023
[Presentations/ Chairs]
• ‘Ineffectiveness of the BOJ’s Monetary Easing Policy and the US Market’ Special Session organized by the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), September, 2014
• [Institute of International Studies Discussion Series, Gadjah Mada University] ‘Effects of Monetary Easing Policy in the US and Japan on Emerging Economies: Challenges to Control Risks and Crises under International Capital Flows’, December, 2015
• [ASEASUK (Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom) Conference 2016] ‘Evaluation of the Effects of Capital Inflows on the Real Economy and Monetary/Financial Sector in Indonesia’ September, 2016
• 【Japan Society of International Economics 75th Annual Meeting】’International Macroeconomics Session Chair: ①On the Stabilization Effect of progressive Tax in a Small- Open Economy with Endogenous Growth ②Limited Asset Market Participation and Capital Controls in a Small Open Economy③Does Foreign Aid Cause “Dutch Disease”: Case of CLMV Economies, October 2016
• 【Japan Society of Monetary Economics 2017Spring Meeting】’Why Abenomics has been failed: Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Monetary Easing Policy’, May 2017
• 【Japanese Economic Association 2017 Spring Meeting】’Why the Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) has been failed in recovering the real economy in Japan?: BVAR based Analysis on the US/Japan markets and economies’, June 2017
• Why the ‘Abenomics’ has been failed in Recovery of the Economy in Japan? Analysis on the US/ Japanese Markets and Economies through BVAR, FTU and Ritsumeikan University Workshop for PhD and Undergraduate English Taught Students, Foreign Trade University, Hanoi (Vietnam), September 2017
•[Japan Society of International Economics 2019 Spring Conference] ’ New Facts on the ‘F-H Puzzle’ in OECD countries: The Effects of International Capital Flows on Domestic Savings, Investment and Growth’, May 2019