Kazuo Mino is a former professor at the Institute of Economics Research of Kyoto University (KIER) and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University. He currently works at KIER as an adjunct professor. Mino obtained a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1984. He is the former president of the Japanese Economic Association and the former editor of the Japanese Economic Review. Previously, he worked at Hiroshima, Tohoku, Kobe, Osaka, and Doshisha Universities. Mino has published extensively in scholarly journals on various topics in macroeconomic theory including growth and business cycle models, monetary and fiscal policies, and open economy macroeconomics. He also published a research monograph, Growth and Business Cycles with Equilibrium Indeterminacy, Springer 2017. Tadashi Yagi is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Doshisha University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics, awarded by Nagoya University in 1996. His research areas are wide-ranging, including public economics, human resources management, income distribution, welfare economics, and cultural economics. He has written many papers in refereed academic journals and chapters in edited volumes. His important papers include “Economic Growth and the Riskiness of Investment in Firm-Specific Skills” (with Taichi Maki and Koichi Yotsuya) European Economic Review (2005), “Income Redistribution through the Tax System: A Simulation Analysis of Tax Reform" (with Toshiaki Tachibanaki) Review of Income and Wealth (1998), and “Public Investment and Interregional Output-Income Inequalities" (with Nobuhiro Okuno) Regional Science and Urban Economics (1990). His recent works include “Moral, Trust and Happiness: Why does Trust Improve Happiness?“ Journal of Organizational Psychology (2017), and “Happiness and Self-Determination: An Empirical Study in Japan” (with Kazuo Nishimura) Review of Behavioral Economics (2019).
