is a

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. He is a professor at the

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies The , or GRIPS, is an elite, highly selective research graduate school located in Minato, Tokyo. Funded by the Japanese Government, it has the status of national university. It is also one of Asia's leading think tanks of policy scholars and socia ...

(GRIPS) in Tokyo. Hayashi received his

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from the

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and his

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from

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in 1980. He has taught at

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, the

University of Tsukuba is a public university, public research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ibaraki, Japan. It is a top 10 Designated National University, and was ranked Type A by the Japanese government as part of the Top Global University Pro ...

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, the

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, and

Hitotsubashi University is a national university located in Tokyo, Japan. It has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Chiyoda. One of the top 9 Designated National University in Japan, Hitotsubashi is a relatively small institution specialized solely in social sciences ...

. Hayashi is the author of a standard

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textbook on

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. He was a Fellow of the

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since 1988. He was awarded the inaugural

Nakahara Prize The Nakahara Prize (中原賞) is an annual award given by the Japanese Economic Association to Japanese economists under the age of 45 whose work has gained international recognition. The prize was created in 1995, and named after its sponsor Nob ...

in 1995. He was elected as foreign honorary member of the

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in 2005 and the

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in 2020.

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GRIPS The , or GRIPS, is an elite, highly selective research graduate school located in Minato, Tokyo. Funded by the Japanese Government, it has the status of List of national universities in Japan, national university. It is also one of Asia's leading ...

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