November 5th, 2018
Prof. Kiyohiko G. Nishimura (CFDS Academic Board Member) was awarded the 2018 Nikkei price for his book "Economics of Pessimism and Optimism" from Springer. The Nikkei prize is considered the most prestigious award for books in economics by Japanese authors. (https://www.jcer.or.jp/about-jcer/bunka available in Japanese only)
Prof. Nishimura is the first author that was awarded with this prize for books written in English twice, in 1993 he won the award for his book "Imperfect Competition, Differential Information and Microfoundations of Macroeconomics" from Oxford University Press.
The CFDS congratulates to this unprecetended achievement and wants to seize the opportunity to thank Prof. Nishimura once more for his continued support of our center.