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(Vice-President and Research Professor at the Asian Growth Research Institute, Japan)
Link to biography: http://en.agi.or.jp/staff/charles-yuji-horioka/
He will be giving a talk on "Do People Leave Bequests, and If So, Why and Does It Matter?"
Professor Charles Horioka is a Japanese-American economist and is currently Vice-President and Research Professor at the Asian Growth Research Institute in Kitakyushu City, Japan. Horioka received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Previously, he taught at Stanford, Columbia, Kyoto, and Osaka Universities, and most recently, he was Vea Family Professor of Technology and Evolutionary Economics Centennial at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, from 2013 until 2014. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and until 2013 Co-Editor of the International Economic Review.
In his article with Martin Feldstein, "Domestic Saving and International Capital Flows," published in the Economic Journal in 1980, Horioka documented a positive correlation between long-term savings and investment rates across countries. This result has come to be known as the Feldstein–Horioka puzzle and the article is one of the most cited in international finance. His specialties are macroeconomics, household and family economics, the Japanese economy, and the Asian economies, and he has written numerous scholarly articles on consumption, saving, and bequest behavior and parent-child relations in Japan, the United States, China, India, Korea, and Asia more generally.
In 2001, Horioka was awarded the Seventh Japanese Economic Association Nakahara Prize (the Japanese equivalent of the John Bates Clark Medal), which is given annually to the most outstanding Japanese economist aged 45 or younger.
Professor of Finance & Accounting from Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
Founding Director, YTU Center for Finance, Governance& Sustainability
Chair, Integrated Reporting Network
Biography & CV
She will be giving a talk about "Integrated Approach for Corporate Sustainability"
Güler Aras is a professor of Finance and Accounting at Yildiz Technical University, and the founding director of Center for Finance, Governance and Sustainability (CFGS) at YTU. Professor Aras is the founding chair of the `Integrated Reporting Network Turkey`. She was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and she is the former Dean of Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences and the former Dean of the Graduate School. Her research focus is on financial economy and financial markets with particular emphasis on the relationship between sustainability, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance.
She has published more than 25 books and has contributed over 250 articles in academic, business and professional journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Management Decision, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, Journal of Applied Accounting research. She also edited several book collections and conference proceedings. Her latest books, `Sustainable Markets for Sustainable Business: A Global Perspective for Business and Financial Markets` and co-authored books `Transforming Governance` and `Corporate Behavior and Sustainability: Doing well by being good` published by Routledge. She is the Editor in Chief of Journal of Capital Market Studies, editor of Routledge Book Series, Finance, Governance and Sustainability: Challenges to Theory and Practice and the editor of Routledge book series Corporate Social Responsibility; she has also served as an editor of Social Responsibility Journal and Emerald Development of Governance and Responsibility book series.
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