Dr Tomoo Kikuchi is an Associate Professor at Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Asian Economics. He grew up in Germany and Japan and studied at universities in Japan, Germany and the UK. He worked at National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and Korea University and held visiting positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Keio University Global Research Institute. He has published papers on topics such as cross-country income convergence, international capital flows, bubbles, and production networks in journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and edited many books and journal special issues on trade, finance and investment in Asia. He regularly writes op-eds for newspapers such as The Straits Times and The Nikkei Asian Review. He is frequently consulted by governments in the region. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Bielefeld University in Germany.

Monographs

• Financial Cooperation in East Asia

  09 April, 2019

Working Papers

• Financial Development in Myanmar and the Role of Japan

  24 May, 2019

Policy Reports

• Vietnam's High-Speed Railway and the Profitability of "Shinkansen"

  01 September, 2020

• Traffic Congestion in Jakarta and the Japanese Experience of Transit-Oriented Development

  25 August, 2020

• Japanese Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia

  03 May, 2019

• Profitability of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail

  24 October, 2018

Commentaries

• US-China Trade War: Mixed Currency Fortunes?

  26 March, 2019

• CO18141 | US Turn to Protectionism: How Should Asia Respond?

  27 August, 2018