back to web-version

Masahiko Aoki

Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies (Emeritus)

Aoki

Contact Info:

[email protected]
Page in Stanford Directory

Phone: 650-723-3975

Office: Room 327

Office hours:

Interests

  • Research: Comparative Institutional Analysis, Corporate Governance, Japanese and Chinese economies.
  • Current Research: Game-theoretic approach to institutional change. Societal games (social political and organizational) that corporations play. Corporation as embodying the group-level cognition system and its implication to corporate governance.
  • Teaching: Modern firm; theory and practice, the Japanese economy, comparative analysis of institutions and organizations.
  • Professional Affiliations: International Economic Association (President, 2008-11), AEA, Econometric Society (Fellow), Japanese Economic Association (Past President), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (Founding Editor), Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (Fellow)

Recent Publications

(1) “Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis,” MIT Press, 2001

(2) “Understanding an Emergent Diversity of Corporate Governance and Organizational Architecture: An Essentiality-based Approach,” Industrial and Corporate Change, No. 1, 2008

(3) “Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity,” Oxford University Press, 2007, University Press, 2001

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Education

BA, MA, University of Tokyo, Ph.D University of Minnesota