Charles Yuji Horioka

Osaka University

Charles Yuji Horioka is a Professor in the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.  His specialties are macroeconomics and the Japanese economy, and he has written more than a hundred scholarly articles on household saving, consumption, bequest, and co-residence behavior and parent-child relations in Japan, the United States, China, and India.  His path-breaking article on the so-called “Feldstein-Horioka paradox” is one of the most widely cited papers in international finance.  He is Co-Editor of the International Economic Review and is also on the editorial boards of several other journals.  He received his B.A. magna cum laude with High Honors in Economics from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.  He taught at Stanford, Columbia, and Kyoto Universities before assuming his present position.  In 2001, he was awarded the Seventh Japanese Economic Association/Nakahara Prize, which is given annually to the most outstanding Japanese economist aged 45 or younger.