Takatoshi Ito

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Takatoshi Ito, professor at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, has taught extensively both in the United States and Japan. He was a member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government in Japan and a professor at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University in Japan.

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Rethinking central banking

This report lays out a framework for rethinking central banking in light of lessons learned in the lead-up to and aftermath of the global financial crisis. By the early 2000s, a growing number of central banks, in advanced countries and emerging markets alike, had converged on a policy framework, flexible inflation targeting, which seemed capable […]

By: Jean Pisani-Ferry, Barry Eichengreen, Mohamed El-Erian, Arminio Fraga, Eswar Prasad, Takatoshi Ito, Raghuram Rajan, Maria Ramos, Carmen M. Reinhart, Hélène Rey, Dani Rodrik, Kenneth Rogoff, Hyun Song Shin, Andrés Velasco, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Yongding Yu Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: September 13, 2011

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