Current Position
Professor
Faculty of Business and Commerce, Kansai University
Contact Information
Email: takanori[at]kansai-u.ac.jp
Office Address: Kansai University, 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita, Osaka 564-8680, Japan
Research Interests
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Applied Econometrics
Education
Ph. D., M.A., Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
B.A., Faculty of Letters, Kobe University
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Kansai University
Associate Professor, College of Economics, Ritsumeikan University
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Meiji Gakuin University
Selected Publications
Split bond ratings: evidence from Japanese credit rating agencies, Research in International Business and Finance, 2024
Gender diversity on Japanese corporate boards, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2019
How do managerial incentives affect the maturity structure of corporate public debt? Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2016
Foreign investors and corporate social responsibility: evidence from the career advancement of women in Japan, Applied Economics, 2015
Corporate governance and the cost of public debt financing: evidence from Japan, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2014
Gender diversity in the boards and the pricing of publicly traded corporate debt: evidence from Japan, Applied Financial Economics, 2014
The global financial crisis and small- and medium-sized enterprises in Japan: how did they cope with the crisis? with Kazuo Ogawa, Small Business Economics, 2013
Working Papers
Bank-firm relationships, the global financial crisis, and the cost of debt
The reactions of the stock market to monetary policy announcements: evidence from Japanese firms
Bank competition and the quality of management forecasts
Foreign institutional investors and corporate debt maturity