Research Interests
Banking, Corporate Finance, Applied Microeconomics
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D. in Economics, Columbia University, 2005
Short Bio
Yoshiaki Ogura specializes in the empirical studies in banking and corporate finance. He has published articles on the relationship banking and competition, and the role of government-controlled banks in financial crises in Journal of Financial Intermediation and Journal of Banking and Finance. His recent research topics include the impact of the network structure among borrowers to lending decisions, and the empirical study on unsecured loans and intangible investments. He has been at the School of Political Science and Economics (SPSE), Waseda University, since 2012. Before joining Waseda, he taught at Ritsumeikan University and Hitotsubashi University. He received his BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Kyoto University, and his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University (2005).