PhD (Economics), Professor at the Graduate
School of Advanced and Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto
University
Born on 13 June 1962 in
Sofia, Bulgaria
At present, I am
teaching the following courses at the Graduate School of Advanced and
Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University (http://www.sals.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.html)
International Economics
(Spring semester)
The lecture slides and
other materials for the course can be found here
Institutional Economics
(Autumn semester)
The lecture slides and
other materials for the course can be found
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From April 2001 to
March 2013, I taught the following courses to international students at the
Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University:
TO
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
1. Japanese
E-2A and E-2B (Economics)
2. International Comparison of Corporate
Governance (Autumn semester)
and
3. The Political Economy of European
Integration (Spring semester)
The lecture slides and term
paper requirements for the course gInternational Comparison of Corporate Governanceh can be found here.
The lecture slides and term
paper requirements for the course gThe Political Economy of European Integrationh can be found here.
TO
GRADUATE STUDENTS
4. Economic
Integration in the EU
5. Readings in Institutional Economics (Spring
semester),
6. Readings in International Economics (Autumn
semester) and
The lecture slides and term
paper requirements for the course gEconomic Integration in the EUh can be found here.
The lecture slides and essay
requirements for the course gReadings in Institutional Economicsh can be found here.
The lecture slides and term
paper requirements for the course gReadings in International Economicsh can be found here.
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From October 1998 to March
2001, I taught courses in English Discussion, Macroeconomics, and International
Economics at the Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of
Technology.
Past events
The
application form for the field study trip to Sharpfs Kameyama factory and Ise shrine (28 October 2011) can be found here.@
The program
and selected photos of the International Young Scholar Workshops (IYSW) that I
organized in 2010 and 2011 at Kyoto University can be found here.@
Selected
photos from the seminar gComparison of the Post-Socialist Transformation in CEE, Russia
and Chinah that I gave at University College Dublin (UCD) on 16 November 2009
can be found here.@
Selected
photos from the field study trip for Japanese and international students to
Okayama and Naoshima (20-21 Oct. 2009) can be found here.
Selected
photos from the day trip for Japanese and international students to Morinaga
Milkfs Kobe Factory (6 June 2008) can be found here.
Graduate
School of Economics and Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University
Yoshidahon-machi,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
E-mail: ialnazov + atmark + econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp
My office is located in Kyoto University's
Yoshida campus, the East Building of the Faculties of Law and Economics, Room
#605 (6th Floor) .If
youfd
like to meet with me, please make an advance appointment by e-mail.
My
full CV is here
I graduated from the
First English Language High School in Sofia, Bulgaria. After a 2-year military
service, I studied for five years (1982-1987) "Political Economy" at
the Faculty of Economics, Moscow University. From 1988 to 1993, I was a
researcher at Sofia University and at the Center for Strategic Business and
Political Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria. I arrived in Japan in April 1993 as a
Monbusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) research student and studied about
the Japanese post-war industrial policy in the doctoral program of Kanazawa
University from 1994 to 1997. Between 1998-2001 I taught courses on English
Discussion, Macroeconomics, and International Economics as a research associate
at the Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
I have been with the Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics,
Kyoto University, since April 2001.
Ph.D.
(Economics), Kanazawa University (1997)
B.A. and M.A. (Political Economy), Moscow
State University "M.V. Lomonosov" (1987)
·
The
economic transformation in the former socialist countries from institutional
and evolutionary perspectives
·
The
impact of EU accession on the new members from Central and Eastern Europe as
well as the candidate countries
·
Corporate
governance in the former socialist countries
·
The
impact of the global financial crisis (2008-2009) and the eurozone sovereign
debt crisis (2010 - ) on European emerging economies
· Japan's Association for Evolutionary
Economics (JAFEE)
· European Association for Evolutionary
Political Economy (EAEPE)
· Japan's Association for Comparative Studies
of Management (JACSM)
· Japanfs Association
for Comparative Economic Studies (JACES)
· Bulgarian Macroeconomic Association (BMA)
Book
chapters
1. gEuropeanization
and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in Bulgariah,
in Yagi, K. and S. Mizobata (eds.), Melting Boundaries: Institutional Transformation in
the Wider Europe, Kyoto University Press: Kyoto, 2008, pp. 180-207.
2.
Comments on the article by Dorothee Bohle gRace
to the Bottom? Comparative Institutional Advantages? Competition of Capitalisms
in the Enlarged EUh,
in Mizobata, S. (ed.), Varieties of Capitalism and Transformation, Bunrikaku: Kyoto, 2008,
pp. 179-184.
3.
(with Rumen Dobrinsky et al.) gEconomic
Transition and Industrial Restructuring in Bulgariah,
in Landesmann, M. and I. Szekely (eds.), Industrial Restructuring and Trade
Reorientation in Eastern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 213-241.
PhD
dissertation
"Industrial
Policy and Economic Development: A Case Study of Postwar Japan (1945-1973) From
a Comparative Institutional Perspective", Graduate School of Social and
Environmental Science, Kanazawa University, 1997.
Journal
articles
1. (with Nikolay Nenovsky) gA Game
Theory Interpretation of the Post-Communist Evolutionh, Journal of
Economic Issues, March 2011, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 41-56.
2.
(with Nikolay Nenovsky) gThe
Evolution of Post-Socialist Countries: An Interpretation from the Perspective
of Cooperationh (in Bulgarian), Sociological
Problems Quarterly, Vol. 3-4, 2009, pp. 156-174.@
3.
"Bulgaria's Accession to the EU: Problems and Perspectives" (in
Japanese), Russian-Eurasian
Economy (Roshia-Yurashia Keizai), No. 901, August, 2007, pp. 2-16.
4. "The Impact of
EU Accession on Corporate Governance Reform in Bulgaria", Acta Oeconomica,
Vol. 57 (2), 2007, pp. 157-190.
5. "Ownership,
Governance, and Financing of Bulgarian Companies", The Journal of the
Japanese Association for Comparative Studies of Management (Hikaku Keieigaku Kenkyu), Vol. 30,
2006, pp. 16-42.
6. "The Capital
Market and Corporate Governance in Bulgaria", The Journal of the Japanese
Association for Comparative Studies of Management (Hikaku Keiei Gakkaishi), Vol. 29, 2005,
pp. 111-122.
7. "Can a Country
Extricate Itself From its Post-Socialist Trajectory? The Role of External
Anchors in Bulgaria", The Journal of the Japanese Association for
Comparative Economic Studies (Hikaku Keizai Taisei Kenkyu), Vol. 10, 2003, pp. 85-103.
8. "Currency
Boards in Transition Economies: The Bulgarian Experience (1997-2000)", The
Journal of the Japanese Association for Comparative Studies of Management (Hikaku Keiei
Gakkaishi), Vol. 26, 2002, pp. 85-104.
9. (with N. Nenovsky)
"The Currency Board and Bulgaria's Accession to the European Monetary
Union", Kyoto
University Economic Review, Vol. LXX, No. 1/2, April-October 2001, pp.
31-48.
10. "The
Transition to Market Economy in Bulgaria: 10 Years After the Fall of
Communism" (in Japanese), Russian-Eurasian Economy (Roshia-Yurashia Keizai Chosa Shiryo), No.
814, April, 2000, pp. 2-20.
11. "Privatization
and Enterprise Control in Bulgaria from a Comparative Perspective", The
Journal of the Japanese Association for Comparative Studies of Management (Hikaku Keiei
Gakkai Nenpou), Vol. 24, 1999, pp. 75-86.
12. "The
Transition to Capitalism in Post-socialist Bulgaria (1989-97): a Comparative
Perspective", The Journal of the Japanese Association for Comparative
Economic Studies (Hikaku Keizai Taisei Kenkyu), Vol. 5, 1998, pp. 99-110.
Book reviews
Review of the book by
Y. Koyama "South Eastern Europe in Transition: A Quest for the
Stabilization of the Region after the Breakup of the Former Yugoslavia",
in Japanese
Slavic and East European Studies, Vol. 25, 2004, pp. 183-190.
Selected presentations at academic
conferences, workshops and seminars
1. gThe
Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Eastern European Economiesh,
Paper presented at the international symposium gThe
Global Economic Crisis and Climate Changeh,
28-31 January 2010, Kyungpook University, Daegu, South Korea.
2. gComparison
of the post-socialist trajectories of Bulgaria and Romania and the impact of
the present global crisish,
Paper presented at the international workshop gBulgarie
et Roumanie 3 ans après lfadhesion:
quels modeles de capitalisme?h,
13 November 2009, University Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France.
3. gEconomic
Crisis in the Southeast European Countriesh,
Paper presented at the international workshop gThe
Global Shock Waveh,
31 May 2009, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (KIER), Kyoto. @
4. gThe Financial Crisis in European Emerging
Economiesh, Paper presented at the EACES Asian Workshop in
Kyoto gSustainability
and Future Perspectives of Emerging Markets Through the Lens of Asian Dynamicsh,
26-27 February 2009, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (KIER),
Kyoto. @
5. gCorporate
Governance in Eastern Europeh,
Paper presented at a seminar of the RIEB (Research Institute for Economics and
Business), 16 January 2009, Kobe University, Kobe.
6. gThe
Emergence and Evolution of Bulgarian Business Groupsh,
Paper presented at the 33rd conference of Japan's Association for Comparative
Studies of Management, 4-6 July 2008, Sapporo University, Sapporo.
7. gThe
Diversity of Post-Socialist Transformation Paths and the
Evolutionary-Institutional Approachh,
Paper presented at the 2nd Forum of the World Association for Political
Economy, 27-28 October 2007, University of Shimane, Hamada.
8. gThe
Diversity of Post-Socialist Transformation Paths: A Comparison of Bulgaria and
Romaniah,
Paper presented at a seminar of the Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, 18 September 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria.@
9. "Bulgaria's
Accession to the EU: Problems and Perspectives", Paper presented at the
23rd Keio Jean Monnet Workshop for EU Studies, 27 January 2007, Keio
University, Tokyo.
10. "EU
Enlargement and Corporate Governance Reform in Eastern Europe", Paper
presented at the EUIJ international symposium "Corporate Governance in the
EU and Japan", 25 November 2006, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka.
11. "The Impact of
EU Accession on Corporate Governance Reform: Evidence from Bulgaria",
Paper presented at the 2006 EAEPE Conference "Developing Economies:
Multiple Trajectories, Multiple Developments", 2-4 November 2006,
Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey.
12.
"Europeanization and Corporate Governance in Bulgaria", Paper
presented at the international conference "The Wider Europe: Institutions
and Transformation" organized by the Graduate School of Economics and the
Institute for Economic Research (KIER), 24-26 November 2005, Kyoto University,
Kyoto.
13. "Capital
Markets in Transition Economies: the Case of Bulgaria", Paper presented at
a seminar of the CEMI (Centre d'Etudes des Modes de l'Industrialization), 23
March 2004, Paris, France.
14. "Why do
Capital Markets in Transition Economies Remain Underdeveloped? Some Evidence
from Bulgaria", Paper presented at the 2003 EAEPE conference "The
Information Society - Understanding Its Institutions Interdisciplinary",
7-10 November 2003, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
15. "The Role of
External Anchors in Transition Economies: the Currency Board and the Prospect
of EU Accession in Bulgaria", Paper presented at the 2002 EAEPE conference
"Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy", 7-10
November 2002, University of Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France.
16. "Economic Transition
in Bulgaria from an Evolutionary Perspective: the Currency Board and the
Prospect of EU Accession", Paper presented at the conference of the
Japanese Association for Evolutionary Economics "Evolution/Transition:
Evolutionary Perspectives on Transition Economies", 27-30 March 2002,
Kyoto University, Kyoto.
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Japan's
Association for Evolutionary Economics (JAFEE): http://www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~evoeco/.
European Association
for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE): http://eaepe.org/.
Japan's Association for
Comparative Studies of Management (JACSM): http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jacsm/index.html/
Bulgarian
Macroeconomics Association (BMA): http://www.bma-bg.org/BG/index-2.htm.
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