What is Japan Doing Right to Get All that Money? Will they Lose It?

William T Ziemba

Chapter 13 in The Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling, 2017, pp 133-145 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The phone rang. Keizo Nagatani, a University of British Columbia colleague from the economics department called asking if I would be interested in going to Japan. Keizo, from Japan himself, had contact with Tsukuba University, one of the national universities and in the city where all the major Japanese manufacturing firms had research facilities. Yamaichi Securities, the fourth biggest Japanese brokerage firm and sixth biggest in the world had given the university money to support five visiting finance professors over the next 5 years. I had a chance to be the first…

Keywords: Financial History; Risk Management; Investment Strategies; Mean Reversion; Risk Arbitrage; Management of Assets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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