Yoshino, Naoyuki

Biography

Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and until March 2020 was Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). 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 May 22, 2020


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    Developing Infrastructure in Central Asia: Impacts and Financing Mechanisms 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Huang, Bihong; Azhgaliyeva, Dina; Abbas, Qaisar (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2021-03-21)
    Infrastructure investment is a key factor for economic development and job creation. Water supply, electricity, road, railways, and airports, among others, will bring in business to the Central Asia and Caucasus region and enhance the welfare of the ...
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    Leveraging SME Finance through Value Chains in Landlocked CAREC Countries 

    Morgan, Peter J.; Yoshino, Naoyuki (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2021-01-19)
    The objective of this book is to take stock of the challenges faced by SMEs in the CAREC landlocked economies in terms of their access to finance in view of the above-mentioned constraints. This includes identifying cultural, procedural, institutional, ...
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    Leveraging SME Finance Through Value Chains in CAREC Landlocked Countries 

    Morgan, Peter J.; Yoshino, Naoyuki (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2021-01-19)
    The objective of this book is to take stock of the challenges faced by SMEs in the CAREC landlocked economies in terms of their access to finance. This includes identifying cultural, procedural, institutional, and regulatory incentives, disincentives, ...
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    An Aggregate-Level Macro Model for the Indian Economy 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Paramanik, Rajendra N; Gopakumar, K U; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Revilla, Ma. Laarni; Ram, K E Seetha (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-12-30)
    This research piece is an empirical attempt to model the Indian economy at an aggregate level with annual data, ranging from 1980 to 2019. The major theoretical premise of the paper mimics the New Keynesian framework, which is based on the microeconomic ...
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    Equitable Land Use for Asian Infrastructure 

    Tiwari, Piyush; Stillman, Grant B.; Yoshino, Naoyuki (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-12-22)
    The overall aim of this book is to set forth debate on alternative practices for land use management in urban development and public infrastructure projects in Asia. Land use laws are the most powerful tools that governments have to implement public ...
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    Energy Insecurity in Asia Challenges, Solutions, and Renewable Energy 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Chang, Youngho; Le, Thai-Ha (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-10-02)
    Energy security, as an interdisciplinary field, focuses on various factors (e.g., energy, natural resources, environmental, economic, social, political/geopolitical, military/security, and technological) and issues (e.g., economic, energy and foreign ...
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    Effects of Infrastructure Projects on Government Revenue: The Case of Expressway Projects in the Northern Midland and Mountainous Area of Viet Nam 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Hoa, Truong Thi (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-08-15)
    This paper examines the effects of infrastructure projects on economic performance by studying the changes in government revenue in the Northern Midland and Mountainous region of Viet Nam. More specifically, this paper investigates the effects of two ...
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    Nonlinear Tail Dependence between the Housing and Energy Markets 

    Stenvall, David; Hedström, Axel; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Uddin, Gazi Salah; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-05-30)
    This paper examines the tail dependence between energy and housing markets in the United States by using cross-quantilogram approach. Our main finding shows a housing returns are dependent on the oil returns in a large part of the return distribution, ...
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    Revisiting the Public Debt Stability Condition: Rethinking the Domar Condition 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Miyamoto, Hiroaki (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-05-30)
    This paper revisits the fiscal sustainability condition proposed by Domar (1944). The Domar condition is derived from the government budget constraint and thus focuses on the supply side of the government bond. By considering the demand for the government ...
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    Financial Literacy and Fintech Adoption in Japan 

    Yoshino, Naoyuki; Morgan, Peter J.; Long, Trinh Q. (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-03-30)
    Rapid developments in financial technology (fintech) are expected to contribute to improvements in financial inclusion and well-being. This paper investigates how financial literacy and other factors contributed to the adoption of fintech services in ...