MASANORI AMANO graduated from the Faculty of Politico-Economics, Waseda University, and the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, both in Japan. He holds doctoral degree in Economics from Hitotsubashi University. His previous publications include papers in Review of Economic Studies, Economica, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, and Japan and the World Economy. He has published two books in Japanese, on money and macroeconomics, and business cycles in Japan, and an English book on comparative international monetary policy. He has previously taught at the University of Tsukuba and Hitotsubashi University, and currently teaches at the Department of Economics at Chiba University, Japan.