Takeo Hoshi is Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor in International Economic Relations at School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and at the Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER). The major research area is the study of the financial aspects of the Japanese economy, especially corporate finance and governance. Hoshi is an inaugural recipient of 2006 Enjoji Jiro Memorial Prize, which is given by Nihon Keizai Shimbun to three leading Japanese economists who work on policy issues every three years. He also recevied 2005 Japanese Economic Association's Nakahara Prize. His book co-authored with Anil Kashyap (Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago) titled Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future (MIT Press, 2001, Japanese version published from Nihon Keizai Shimbun-sha in 2006) received the Nikkei Award for the Best Economics Books in 2002. He has been the Editor in Chief of Journal of the Japanese and International Economies since 1999. Hoshi holds BA in interdisciplinary social sciences from University of Tokyo and Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.