Koji Kubo

(久保公二)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Faculty of international Social Sciences, Gakushuin University

Degree: 博士（国際公共政策）(大阪大学)

Researcher number: 00450528
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0308-3182
J-GLOBAL ID: 202001001949058487
researchmap Member ID: R000008896

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2021 - Present

Professor, Faculty of international Social Sciences, Gakushuin University
Apr, 2001 - Mar, 2021

Research Fellow, Japan External Trade Organization, Institute of Developing Economies
Aug, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Visiting Researcher, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Apr, 2012 - Jul, 2016

Researcher, JETRO Bangkok, Japan External Trade Organization
Oct, 2006 - Oct, 2008

Visiting Researcher, Department of Agricultural Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Myanmar

Education

Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2009

Department of International Public Policy, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University
Aug, 1999

MA in Development Economics, School of Social Sciences, Sussex University
Mar, 1992

Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University

Papers

How Chinese demand for fresh fruit and vegetables is creating new landscapes of rural development and vulnerability in Southeast Asia: Insights from the Myanmar melon frontier

Koji Kubo, Bill Pritchard, Aye Sandar Phyo

Geoforum, 122 32-40, Jun, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Currency exchange under payments dollarization: converting a source of efficiency loss into a catalyst for financial development in Cambodia

Koji Kubo, Vichet Sam, Yuthan Chea

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 1-25, Feb 1, 2021 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Impacts of Foreign Exchange Auctions on the Informal Market Rate in Myanmar

Koji Kubo

GLOBAL ECONOMIC REVIEW, 46(2) 189-202, Jun, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Evolving informal remittance methods among Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand

Koji Kubo

JOURNAL OF THE ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMY, 22(3) 396-413, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Myanmar's non-resource export potential after the lifting of economic sanctions: A gravity model analysis

Koji Kubo

Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 21(1) 1-22, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Foreign Exchange Market Reform in Myanmar: Achievements and Challenges

Koji Kubo

Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 31(2) 210-210, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Myanmar's two decades of partial transition to a market economy: a negative legacy for the new government

Koji Kubo

POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIES, 25(3) 357-370, Sep, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Real exchange rate appreciation, resource boom, and policy reform in Myanmar

Koji Kubo

ASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIC LITERATURE, 27(1) 110-126, May, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Trade Policies and Trade Misreporting in Myanmar

Koji Kubo

ASEAN ECONOMIC BULLETIN, 29(2) 146-146, 2012 Peer-reviewed
Natural Gas Export Revenue‚ Fiscal Balance and Inflation in Myanmar

Koji Kubo

ASEAN ECONOMIC BULLETIN, 28(3) 374-374, 2011 Peer-reviewed
Do Foreign Currency Deposits Promote or Deter Financial Intermediary Development in Low-income Countries? An Empirical Analysis of Cross-Country Data

Koji Kubo

The Developing Economies, 46(3) 264-289, Aug, 2008 Peer-reviewed
Sustainability of macroeconomic management in Myanmar: with a particular focus on seigniorage financing of fiscal deficits

Monthly journal of Institute of Developing Economies, 48(2) 2-19, Feb, 2007 Peer-reviewedLead author
Determinants of Parallel Exchange Rate in Myanmar

Koji Kubo

ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 24(3) 289-304, 2007 Peer-reviewed
The Degree of Competition in the Thai Banking Industry Before and After the East Asian Crisis

Koji Kubo

ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 23(3) 325-340, 2006 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

ミャンマーの外国為替制度改革はどこまで進んでいるのか?

久保公二

バンコク日本人商工会議所所報, (612) 24-28, Apr, 2013

Books and Other Publications

Myanmar's foreign exchange market : controls, reforms, and informal market

久保, 公二

Springer, 2018 (ISBN: 9789811317880)
Dollarization and de-dollarization in transitional economies of Southeast Asia

久保, 公二 (Role: Editor)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (ISBN: 9783319577678)
ミャンマーとベトナムの移行戦略と経済政策

久保, 公二 (Role: Editor)

日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, Mar, 2013 (ISBN: 9784258046065)
金融グローバル化と途上国

国宗, 浩三, 久保, 公二 (Role: Joint editor)

日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, Jan, 2004 (ISBN: 4258045365)

Professional Memberships

Apr, 2025 - Present

アジア政経学会
Apr, 2014 - Present

Japan Society of International Economics
Apr, 2012 - Present

East Asian Economic Association

Research Projects

The diversity of household financial inclusion and its poverty reduction effects

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Sep, 2023 - Mar, 2028
Examining separability of crop boom and land grabbing in developing countries: a case study of the melon boom in Myanmar

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2026
Empirical analysis of the impacts of Chinese yuan deals on the foreign exchange market in Myanmar

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2022
Foreign Exchange Policy Reform and Informal Currency Deals in Myanmar

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2021
De-dollarization in Myanmar

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

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