He is an Assistant Professor in ICS at Hitotsubashi Business School (Sept 2023-), working on the research on corporate disclosure and corporate finance topics.
Link: [ICS profile] [Google Scholar] [researchmap]
E-mail: rfujitani@ics.hub.hit-u.ac.jp
Sep, 2025 -Jan, 2026: Having an adjunct course "Principles of Accounting" (in English) at Sophia University
Feb, 2026: Having an adjunct course "Capital Market" at AIT School of Business (in Bangkok, invited by Joe French)
Aug 18-22, 2025: Presentation (by co-author) in ESWC @Seoul
Aug, 8, 2025: My joint work "From Conflict to Coordination: The Governance Role of Bank-Involved Investor Cliques in Japan" (w/ Akitoshi Ito and Kiyonori Iata ) has been accepted by Finance Research Letters. [Link]
Jul 13-14, 2025: Presentation (by co-author and myself) in JARS @Kobe [Link]
Jun 30-Jul 4, 2025: Presentation in JIAR conference @Casablanca
Jun14-15 , 2025:Discussion in Nihon Finance Conference @Yokohama
May 25-30, 2025: Case writing program in HBS @Boston
May 19, 2025: 四半期開示の事後評価についてスライドを公開しました [Link]
Apr 23, 2025: My joint work "Internal candidate pool and CEO turnover in Japan: A pre-registered report" w/ Yuho Kusaka and Ning Donglai was accepted by PBFJ! [Link]
Aug 27, 2024: KFA Korea Japan Finance Workshop @Seoul
July 30-Aug2, 2024: Presentation in WFC @Cyprus
July 21-26, 2024: Join Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning in HBS @Boston
June 20, 2024: Presentation in GFC @Cagliari
June 8, 2024: Presentation in TFA @Kaohsiung
Mar 7, 2024: New working paper "Passive and Proactive Motivations of Cash Holdings," (with Masazumi Hattori and Tomohide Mineyama) is now available in TCER Working Paper series. [WP Link]
Feb 5, 2024: Presentation @Hitotsubashi-PAPSI, The University of Wisconsin-Madison joint Workshop on Finance [Link]
Dec 16, 2023: Presentation and discussion @AEAJ in Kita-Kyushu [Link]
Dec 12, 2023: My joint work "Real Effects of Cash Holdings: Evidence from Japan," (with Masazumi Hattori, Jouchi Nakajima, Yukihiro Yasuda) is now available. [RIETI DP]
Nov 25, 2023: My joint work "Auditor Style and Earnings Comparability: Evidence from Japan," (in Japanese, with Hyonok Kim and Jong-Hoon Kim) has been accepted by Gendai Disclosure (現代ディスクロージャー研究)!
Nov 15, 2023: My joint work "How does stock liquidity affect corporate cash holdings in Japan?: A pre-registered report," (with Kiyonori Iwata and Yukihiro Yasuda) has been accepted by Pacific-Basin Finance Journal! [Paper link] [Open Access Link (-Dec 2023)]
Sep 1-3, 2023: Presentation and Keynote speech @JAA annual conference
Sep 1, 2023: Join ICS in Hitotsubashi Business School!
Aug 22, 2023: Presentation @Tohoku University
Aug 12, 2023: Presentation @SWET (by coauthor) [Link]
July 19,2023: Presentation @HARS (Hitotsubashi Accounting Research Seminar) [Link]
July 6, 2023: Presentation @Hitotsubashi Finance Seminar [Link]
June 28, 2023: My new working paper "What drive disclosure costs?: Evidence from dynamic adjustments in reporting speed" become available on SSRN [Link]
May 20, 2023: Discussant @NFA conference [Link]
Apr 11, 2023: My joint work "How Does Stock Liquidity Affect Corporate Cash Holdings in Japan?" is available on SSRN! [SSRN]
Apl 1, 2022-: Start a new year as an Associate Professor
Mar 24, 2022: My joint work, "Does stock liquidity matter on cash holding in Japan? ", is awarded as 1st running up research @ [Link]
Mar 14, 2022: Presentation @JFA-PBFJ conference [Link]
Dec 17, 2021: Media alert: An article of my joint work on EPU is published in Nikkei Shinbun (日本経済新聞の経済教室を服部正純先生・安田行宏先生と執筆しました)[Link]
Dec 4, 2021: My joint work "Financing demand and employment" (with Hyonok Kim in Japanese) is accepted by Gendai Finance! (金先生との共同研究「長期負債の返済と雇用水準の変化」が現代ファイナンスにアクセプトされました) [Link soon]
Nov 17, 2021: Updated the page on Quarterly Reporting (四半期報告の特集ページを更新しました。) [Link]
Nov 8, 2021: Media alert: Comment on quarterly reporting is on Nikkei Shinbun (日本経済新聞に四半期開示制度に関連するコメントが掲載されました) [Link]
Sep 24, 2021: Started working as part-time lecturer in ICS [Link]
Aug 21, 2021: A new working paper "Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Corporate Investment and Strategic Cash Holdings: Evidence from Japan" is now available ! [Link]
Jun 21, 2021: Presentation @Korean Accounting Association [Link soon]
Jun 18, 2021: Presentation @HARS (Hitotsubashi Accounting Research Society) [Private]
Mar 29, 2021: Presentation (by co-author) @Handai Accounting Research Seminar [Link]
Mar 16, 2021: Presentation @AEAJ Workshop [Link]
Mar 15, 2021: Presentation @Finance Camp (Japanese Finance Association) [Link]
Mar 14, 2021: Presentation @Hitotsubashi Research Seminar (Private Seminar)
Jan 26, 2021: A new working paper "Peer Effects of Corporate Disclosure in Pandemic Era" is now available! [Link]
Jan 25, 2021: Presentation (by co-author) @Waseda University [Link]
Dec 10, 2020: My joint work "How does COVID-19 affect business environment and corporate disclosure" will be published in Security Market, in Japanese(雑誌『資本市場』に金先生との共同研究「COVID-19が事業環境と情報開示に与えた影響」が掲載されました。) [Link]
Oct 3-4, 2020: Presentation @44th Annual Conference of Japanese Finance Association [Link]
Sep 3, 2020: I got Best Presentation Award @2020 All-Japan PBFJ Shark Tank Pitch Event!! Thank you, Meiting and Jong-Hoon! [Pic]
Sep 3, 2020: Presentation @2020 All-Japan Finance PBFJ SHARK TANK PITCH Event [Link]
Aug 31, 2020: My essay "A synthesis on policy evaluation of frequent financial reporting " has been published in Security Analyst Journal(証券アナリストジャーナルに「財務報告頻度の経済的影響ー四半期報告の政策評価の視点から」が掲載されました。) [Link]
Aug 30, 2020: A brief appendix on quarterly reporting has been released! In Japanese(四半期報告制度に関連するページ「四半期報告に関するメモ書き」を公開しました。尚も工事中です。) [Link]
Aug 19, 2020: "COVID-19 and Corporate Disclosure in Japan: An Early Picture" has been revised [Link]
Jul 28, 2020: My new working paper "COVID-19 and Corporate Disclosure in Japan: An Early Picture" has been released [Link]
Jul 25, 2020: Presentation @37th Accounting and Economic Association of Japan [Paper Link] [Link]
Jul 22, 2020: COVID-19 page has been released, where you can check out my investigation or research on COVDID-19. [Link]
Jul 15, 2020: My joint work "Under pressure: Listing status and disinvestment in Japan" has been published in Finance Research Letters! [Link]
Jul 14, 2020: My joint work "Does Stock Market Listing Impact Investment in Japan? " has been accepted by Journal of the Japanese and International Economies! [Link]
Jul 11, 2020: Discussant presentation @2020 Japan Finance Association Eastern Division Meeting [Link]
June 30, 2020: Presentation @Tokyo Keizai University Finance Seminar [Link]
May 25, 2020: New Hitotsubashi University HP opens, where I contribute to some reports on new topics of economics. [Link]
Mar 20, 2020: A book on corporate governance in Japanese, where I contribute to a chapter on corporate disclosure, will be released on March 27! (『日本企業のコーポレート・ガバナンス エージェンシ問題の克服と企業価値向上』「第5章 ディスクロージャーとガバナンス」) [Link]
Mar 19, 2020: I received Ph.D.. Thank you Hitotsubashi University!
Feb 6, 2020: My paper was accepted by Japan Journal of Finance (経営財務研究)! [Link]
Jan 23, 2020: My dissertation defense completes! [Slide Link]
Dec 22, 2019: My joint work "Financial Reporting Opacity, Audit Quality and Crash Risk: Evidence from Japan" has been published in Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business! [Link]
Nov 26, 2019: New working paper "Does Stock Market Listing Impact Investment in Japan?" is published! [Link]
Nov 10, 2019: New page on Stata Coding! [Link]
Nov 8, 2019: Update revised paper! [Link]
Oct 30, 2019: My joint work was accepted by Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business!
Oct 9, 2019: Presentation @Waseda Organizational and Financial Economics Seminar [Link]
Sep 8, 2019: Corporate Governance workshop @Hitotsubashi University
Sep 7, 2019: Presentation @78th Japan Accounting Association Conference in Kobe
Aug 12, 2019: My joint work was accepted by Finance Research Letters! [Link]
Aug 27, 2019: Presentation @28th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference (by co-author)
Aug 1, 2019: Presentation @The 4th International Conference on Corporate Finance: Economic Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Policies around the World