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Keiichiro Kobayashi (小林 慶一郎, Kobayashi Keiichirō) born 1966 is a Japanese macroeconomist at the Keio University. His areas of expertise are Endogenous Growth Theory, General Equilibrium, Business Cycles, Bad Debt Problem, Debt Control Policy, Macropolitical Economy. He received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1998 from the University of Chicago. His dissertation "The Division of Labor, the Extent of the Market, and Economic Growth" was written under supervision of Robert Lucas, an America's prominent economist and a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1995. Kobayashi was awarded Nikkei Economics Book Award in 2001 and Osaragi Jiro Critics Award in 2002 both for Trap of the Japanese Economy.
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Biography
Kobayashi is a Professor of the Faculty of Economics at the Keio University. He is also a Faculty Fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, and a Research Director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies. He earned his master's degree in engineering from the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago. He worked at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry and was a professor at the Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi University before becoming a professor in the Faculty of Economics, Keio University.