Kotaro Suzumura

Kotaro Suzumura is Professor of Public Economics at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University since 1984. He is Director of the Competition Policy Research Center within Fair Trade Commission of Japan since 2003. Born in 1944, Suzumura graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1966 majoring in Economics. He received the Doctorial Degree in Economics from the same institution in 1980. He has taught at various institutions including Kyoto University (1973-82), London School of...See more

Kotaro Suzumura is Professor of Public Economics at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University since 1984. He is Director of the Competition Policy Research Center within Fair Trade Commission of Japan since 2003. Born in 1944, Suzumura graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1966 majoring in Economics. He received the Doctorial Degree in Economics from the same institution in 1980. He has taught at various institutions including Kyoto University (1973-82), London School of Economics (1974-76), Stanford University (1979-80), and University of Pennsylvania (1987). He was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University (1988), a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University (1993), and a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge University (2001). He served as the editor of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies in 1992-94, and also of the Japanese Economic Review in 1995-98. He was elected in 1990 to the Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was the President of the Japanese Economic Association (1999-2000) as well as of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (2000-2001). His major research areas are welfare economics, social choice theory, and theoretical industrial organization. He received the Nikkei Prize twice, once in 1984 for Rational Choice, Collective Decisions and Social Welfare, Cambridge University Press, 1983 and again in 1988 for Economic Analysis of Industrial Policy, Academic Press, 1988, which was jointly written with Motoshige Itoh, Kazuharu Kiyono, and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara. In 2004, he was conferred the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his contributions to theoretical economics. In 2006, he received the Japan Academy Award for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory. Since October 2006, Suzumura is the Vice President of the Science Council of Japan. See less