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Overview

Hiro Ito is affiliated with Portland State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their scholarly output consists of 59 publications focusing on topics such as Finance, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, and Strategy and Management.

The main research areas covered in Ito's work include:

  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Economic Sanctions and International Relations
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • State Capitalism and Financial Governance

Among their recent research publications are:

  • Financial Spillovers and Macroprudential Policies, 2020, Open Economies Review
  • Central bank swap arrangements in the COVID-19 crisis, 2021, Journal of International Money and Finance
  • A Requiem for "Blame It on Beijing" interpreting rotating global current account surpluses, 2021, Journal of International Money and Finance
  • Do central banks rebalance their currency shares?, 2021, Journal of International Money and Finance
  • The Effectiveness of Macroprudential Policies and Capital Controls Against Volatile Capital Inflows, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Hiro Ito's work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of International Money and Finance
  • Open Economies Review
  • Review of International Economics
  • International Finance

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably:

  • Menzie Chinn
  • Joshua Aizenman
  • Jeffrey A. Frankel
  • Robert N. McCauley
  • Masahiro Kawai

Best Publications

  • What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions

    Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • A New Measure of Financial Openness

    Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • Capital Account Liberalization, Institutions and Financial Development: Cross Country Evidence

    Menzie D. Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • Current account balances, financial development and institutions: Assaying the world “saving glut”

    Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • Capital Account Liberalization, Institutions and Financial Development: Cross Country Evidence

    Menzie Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • The emerging global financial architecture: Tracing and evaluating new patterns of the trilemma configuration

    Joshua Aizenman;Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • Assessing the Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Measuring the Trilemma's Configurations over Time

    Joshua Aizenman;Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • Monetary Policy Spillovers and the Trilemma in the New Normal: Periphery Country Sensitivity to Core Country Conditions

    Joshua Aizenman;Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions

    Menzie David Chinn;Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • Capital Account Liberalization, Institutions and Financial Development: Cross Country Evidence

    Menzie D Chinn;Menzie D Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • The "Impossible Trinity" Hypothesis in an Era of Global Imbalances: Measurement and Testing

    Joshua Aizenman;Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • A Forensic Analysis of Global Imbalances

    Menzie David Chinn;Barry Eichengreen;Hiro Ito

  • Global Current Account Imbalances: American Fiscal Policy versus East Asian Savings

    Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • Surfing the Waves of Globalization: Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma

    Joshua Aizenman;Joshua Aizenman;Menzie David Chinn;Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • Financial Development and Financial Liberalization in Asia: Thresholds, Institutions and the Sequence of Liberalization

    Hiro Ito

  • International Reserves Before and After the Global Crisis: Is There No End to Hoarding?

    Joshua Aizenman;Yin-Wong Cheung;Hiro Ito

  • Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions: Assaying the World "Savings Glut"

    Menzie Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • International Reserves Before and After the Global Crisis: Is There No End to Hoarding?

    Joshua Aizenman;Yin-Wong Cheung;Hiro Ito

  • A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis of International Reserves

    Yin-Wong Cheung;Hiro Ito

  • Trilemma Policy Convergence Patterns and Output Volatility

    Joshua Aizenman;Hiro Ito

  • Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions: Assaying the World

    Menzie David Chinn;Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

  • East Asia and Global Imbalances: Saving, Investment, and Financial Development

    Hiro Ito;Menzie Chinn

  • Living with the trilemma constraint: Relative trilemma policy divergence, crises, and output losses for developing countries

    Joshua Aizenman;Hiro Ito

  • What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions

    Menzie David Chinn;Hiro Ito

Frequent Co-Authors

Menzie David Chinn
Menzie David Chinn University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joshua Aizenman
Joshua Aizenman University of Southern California
Yin-Wong Cheung
Yin-Wong Cheung City University of Hong Kong
Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley

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