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

In: The Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling

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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…

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  • William T Ziemba, 2017. "What is Japan Doing Right to Get All that Money? Will they Lose It?," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: The Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling, chapter 13, pages 133-145, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Financial History; Risk Management; Investment Strategies; Mean Reversion; Risk Arbitrage; Management of Assets;
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    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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