Welcome to Jun Nagayasu's Homepage

I am a professor at the Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, Japan. Prior to becoming staff here, I was a quantitative analyst for Nomura in the City (London), an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and then an associate professor at University of Tsukuba. My research interests cover international money and finance as well as quantitative economics. My research papers appeared in academic journals such as the Economics Letters, Finance Research Letters, IMF Staff Papers, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Review of International Economics, Urban Studies, among many others. I am also an author of a Japanese textbook 'Introduction to International Finance' (Yuhikaku: Tokyo).


Permanent positions:

  • Director, Global Program in Economics & Management, Tohoku University, Japan 04/2018--03/2020

  • Professor, Graduate School of Economics & Management, Tohoku University, Japan 04/2015

  • Associate Professor, Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 04/2004

  • Associate Professor, Institute of Policy & Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 11/2003

  • Economist, International Monetary Fund (IMF) USA, 10/1997

  • Quantitative Analyst, Quantitative Analysis Group, Nomura Research Institute/Nomura International plc, UK, 04/1997

Visiting (ad hoc) positions:

  • Co-editor, Japanese Journal of Monetary and Financial Economics, 11/2022-

  • Rapporteur, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Sciences Economiques, Aix-Marseille Université, France 06/2021

  • Director, Japan Society of Monetary Economics, 2016-2020

  • Visiting scholar, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, UK, 06-08/2011

  • Consultant, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, 04/2010-Present

  • Visiting scholar, Economics Department, University of Glasgow, UK, 07-08/2010 & 08-09/2009

  • Consultant, Statistics Department, IMF, USA, 04/2007

  • External evaluator of research, The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI, Tokyo), 2007, 2009-Present

  • Visiting scholar, Cass Business School, City University, UK, 05-07/2005

  • Visiting scholar, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, UK, 12/2004-01/2005, 08/2012-08/2013

  • Visiting scholar, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, 04-05/2003