Yoshino, Naoyuki

Biography

Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (United States) in 1979 where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters, economic adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Dr. Yoshino has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and a visiting professor at various universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France), and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has also been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an economics professor at Keio University. Dr. Yoshino's professional career includes membership in numerous government committees. He was named Director of the Japan Financial Services Agency's (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute) in 2004 and is now Chief Advisor. He was appointed as Chair of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007. He has served as Chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance's Council on Foreign Exchange as well as its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). Additionally, he has been a Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan and President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan.

He was nominated for inclusion in Who's Who in the World for 2009 and 2013, and was named one of the Top 100 Educators in 2009. He obtained honorary doctorates from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004 and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013. He also received the Fukuzawa Award in 2013 for his contribution to research on economic policy. Since December 2018 he has been serving as the T20 Japan Supporting Co-chair during Japan's Presidency of the 2019 G20 meetings. He is also the Lead Co-chair of the T20 Infrastructure and Financing Task Force and advising on the handover to Saudi Arabia's presidency next year.

Departments
Asian Development Bank Institute
Position / Title

Dean and CEO, ADB Institute

Current research programs / themes
Infrastructure
Finance
SMEs
Small Medium Business
Last updated June 13, 2019


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    Implementing Land Trust in Bangladesh as a Strategy for Financing Infrastructure and Sustainable Land Management 

    Hossain, Monzur; Yoshino, Naoyuki (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-11-30)
    As Bangladesh is a densely populated and land-scarce country, a land trust method can be applied in order to ensure productive and sustainable land management. We argue that land trust can be applied to managing agricultural land, khas land, real estate, ...
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    Modeling the Russian Federation - Asia and the Pacific Energy Trade 

    Rasoulinezhad, Ehsan; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Sarker, Tapan (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-09-30)
    Asia remained the largest market for energy sources in 2018. The Russian Federation has a clear vision to develop its Asian energy projects in order to provide a greater share of Asian energy imports. This paper models Russian Federation–Asia and the ...
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    Default Risks, Moral Hazard, and Market-Based Solution: Evidence from Renewable Energy Market in Bangladesh 

    Hossain, Monzur; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-09-30)
    This paper analyzes a unique case of default risks and associated factors of a solar home system (SHS) program in Bangladesh and, within that context, proposes a theoretical market-based solution to finance a renewable energy (RE) program. The paper ...
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    Remittance Inflows, Financial Inclusion, and Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis of the World Sample 

    Tu, Chuc Anh; Phi, Nguyet Thi Minh; Tuan, Le Quoc; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Sarker, Tapan; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-09-30)
    The main purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impacts of remittance inflows, financial inclusion, and economic development and whether inward remittances may help to construct an inclusive financial system. Using both endogeneity-robust ...
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    Inducing Private Finance to Water Supply and Inland Water Supply and Inland Water Transport Using Spillover Tax Revenues 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid; Nakahigashi, Masaki (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-09-30)
    This paper discusses suggested ways to bring private sector finance into water supply and inland water transport. Typically, such water projects rely only on user charges as sources of revenues. For example, ships using inland waterways have to pay ...
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    Asian Development Review: Volume 36 No. 2 

    Sawada, Yasuyuki; Yoshino, Naoyuki (Asian Development Bank, 2019-09-30)
    The Asian Development Review (ADR) is a professional journal that publishes research on development issues relevant to the countries of the Asia and Pacific region, specifically members of the Asian Development Bank. The ADR publishes high-quality ...
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    Navigating Low-Carbon Finance Management at Banks and Non-Banking Financial Institutions 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2019-08-30)
    Lack of long-term financing, the existence of various risks, the low rate of return, and lack of capacity in market actors are major challenges for the development of low-carbon projects. This paper attempts to provide guidelines for governments and ...
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    Quality Infrastructure and Natural Disaster Resiliency 

    Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Mortha, Aline; Sarker, Tapan (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-08-30)
    A review of the academic literature on the topic has proved that most studies have been focused on how to finance the risk and indemnify the damages caused by an earthquake, rather than on mitigation measures. This study assessed the impact of quality ...
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    Empirical Analysis of Global Oil Price Determinants at the Disaggregated Level Over the Last Two Decades 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Alekhina, Victoriia (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-07-30)
    While until the mid-1990s the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries played a key role in oil pricing, during recent decades, rapid economic growth in developing economies has boosted the demand for oil, making oil prices vulnerable to a ...
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    How to Avoid Household Debt Overhang? An Analysis for India 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Gupta, Prachi (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-07-15)
    In this paper we develop an analytical framework using the household utility maximization approach to model stability conditions to avoid household debt overhang. Our theoretical framework suggests that household debt stability is a function of five ...