Yukinobu KITAMURA

Yukinobu KITAMURA is a Professor at Hitotsubashi University's Institute for Economic Research. He holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford University and has held roles at the OECD (Paris, 1988), Bank of Japan (1991–1996), and Keio University (1996–1999). From 2015–2017, he served as Director of Hitotsubashi's Institute for Economic Research. His research spans public finance, monetary economics, development economics, economic history, econometrics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics.

He was a visiting researcher at the France-Japan Foundation of the EHESS (September 2017–March 2018), contributing to Axis 1: 'Diversity of capitalisms and institutional changes.' His work includes a 2017 Research Statement on intergenerational transfers and inheritance tax in Japan.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned. His research affiliations include the Institute for Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University and collaborations with the FFJ (France-Japan Foundation).