Professor Takatoshi Ito, associate director of research at CJEB, recently commented on the selling of Japanese government bonds with negative interest rates, with Marketplace. To read the article, please visit Marketplace's website as linked below: Why buy bonds with a negative yield?
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Takatoshi Ito
Takatoshi Ito is one of Japan premier economists. A professor at the prestigious University of Tokyo, he is the author or co-author of several books on the Japanese and global economy. He served in the Japanese government as Deputy Vice Minister for International Finance in the Ministry of Finance and was a member of Japan’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. He has been a senior advisor in the research department of the International Monetary Fund and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.