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Hirotaka Fukui

Ph.D. Student in Economics, Kobe University

🎓 Current Position

Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, Apr. 2024 - present
- Advisors: Shigeto Kitano, Yoichi Matsubayashi, - Fields: International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Emerging and Developing Economies (Especially African Countries)

📘 Education

M.A. in Economics, 2024 Kobe University, Japan

B.A. in Language and Area Studies (Africa), 2022
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

📄 Working Papers

• The Effects of Financial Liberalization on Sovereign Risk: A Continuous-Time Model of Sovereign Debt under Capital-Account Openness

  (Under preparation)

• On the Sources of Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Sub-Saharan African Countries

  (Under preparation)

🧑‍🏫 Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Kobe University

• Advanced Macroeconomics I (Ph.D., Prof. Tetsugen Haruyama), 2024 Q3
  
• Econometrics (Undergraduate, Prof. Yoichi Matsubayashi), Spring 2024, 2025
  
• Intermediate Macroeconomics (Undergraduate, Profs. Tetsugen Haruyama & Agata Wierzbowska), Spring 2025
  
• Economic Statistics (Undergraduate, Prof. Yoichi Matsubayashi), Fall 2024, 2025
  
• Programming & Economic Analysis (Undergraduate, Prof. Tetsugen Haruyama), Fall 2024

🎤 Presentations & Seminars (* Scheduled)

2025: Economics Workshop for Young Economists, Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University, Spring Conference of the Japan Society of International Economics, Princeton Initiative: Macro, Money and Finance Conference* (Selected participant)

🎖 Fellowships and Awards

• JST SPRING Fellowship, JST, 2024–present

🔨　Other Activities

• Completed, IMF 19th Macroeconomist Training Program, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in cooperation with JICA, 2024
  
• Completed, KOBE HPC Summer School, cosponsored by Kobe University, University of Hyogo, and RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), 2024
• Princeton Initiative: Macro, Money and Finance Conference, Princeton University, Bendheim Center for Finance, 2025 — Selected participant
  
• Completed, 2025 Macrofinance Online Summer School, Princeton University, Bendheim Center for Finance, 2025

👨‍💻 Programming and Skills

• Languages: Japanese, English, French
• Programming: MATLAB, Julia, Python, R, Fortran, C, Stata

👥 Professional Memberships

• Japan Society of International Economics
  
• Japanese Economic Association
• Japan Society of Monetary Economics

📝 Service

• Chair of the Executive Committee, The Student Council of the Graduate School of Economics, Kobe U, Apr. 2024-Mar. 2025