Toshihisa Toyoda
economist
Toshihisa Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田利久, born August 6, 1940) is a Japanese economist, with contribution in Econometrics and Development Economics.
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Toshihisa Toyoda was born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, on August 6, 1940. He attended Okayama Asahi High School, in Okayama City.
Toyoda received his bachelor's degree from the Economics Faculty of Kobe University in 1963, and his master's degree there in 1965. Then, in 1967-71, he attended the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now called Tepper School of Business), Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Ph.D in 1971. Omicron Delta Epsilon.
In 1966, he began working as a research associate in the Economics Faculty of Kobe University, later becoming a lecturer and then an associate professor of the same faculty. Finally, he became a professor in 1980.
From 1993 to 2003, Toyoda worked at Kobe University's Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, and, from 2004 to 2012, at the Graduate School of Economic Sciences at Hiroshima Shudo University, Hiroshima City. He is now a Professor Emeritus at Kobe University and a Professor Emeritus at Hiroshima Shudo University.
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