Kazunori MINETAKI is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Quality and Safety, Tokyo Medical University, Senior Research Associate at the Research Institute of Socio Network Strategies, Kansai University, and Special Researcher at the Institute for Information and Communications Policy at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan. He won the 10th Okawa Publications Prize in 2001. Kiyohiko ... Read moreG. NISHIMURA is Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan. A member of the Faculty of Economicss at the University of Tokyo from 1983-2005, he was an Executive Research Fellow at the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Government of Japan Cabinet Office between 2003 and 2005, and then became a Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan. His research interests extend from economic theory (mathematical economics and the microeconomic foundation of macroeconomics) to management studies, with a focus on real estate markets and the e-business of automobile distribution. His English monograph on the microeconomic foundation of macroeconomics received the Nikkei Prize, and his books in Japanese have won the Japan Economist Prize and the Japan Assocation of Real Estate Sciences Prize. In 1998, he was awarded the Japanese Economic Association's Nakahara Prize for outstanding contributions to mathematical economics and economic theory. Show Less