History of the IMF

Editors Yoshio Asai is a professor of economic history at Seijo University. He is the author of Sengo Kaikaku to Minshushugi (Post-war Economic Reforms and Democracy) (2001); and a co-author of Showa Zaiseishi, 1952-73 (History of Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Japan, 1952-73), Vol.11 (1999),Vol.12 (1992); and Kinyu Kiki to Kakushin (Financial Crises and Innovations)(2000). Masanao Itoh is professor at Otsuma Women's University and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. His main writings are Japanese Overseas Finance and Financial Policy 1914-1936 ( Nagoya University Press, 1989, in Japanese), which was awarded the 31st Japan Economist Prize in 1990; History of Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Japan 1974-1989, Vol. 7, 11: International Finance and External Economic Affairs (Ministry of Finance, Toyo Keizai Inc., editor, 2003, 2004, in Japanese); Japanese Overseas Finance and Financial Policy 1945-1974 and The Formation and the End of the 360 Yen-Dollar Rate (Nagoya University Press, 2009, in Japanese); and Why Have the Financial Crises Been Repeated?(Junpo-sha, 2010, in Japanese). Kazuhiko Yago, born in 1962, professor at Waseda University, Faculty of Commerce, defended his doctoral dissertation "L'epargne populaire comme fonds de placement public: Caisse des Depots et Consignations" at Universite Paris X in 1996. Publications include: Asian Imperial Banking History (with Hubert Bonin and Nuno Valerio), (Pickering and Chatto, 2014); The Financial History of the Bank for International Settlements (Routledge, 2012); "La Banque du Japon dans le systeme monetaire international,1945-1985", in Olivier Feiertag et Michel Margairaz, dirs., Les banques centrales a l'echelle du monde (Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 2012).