Yuko Hashimoto
Last Updated: March 1, 2023
Yuko Hashimoto is a senior economist in the Strategy, Policy, and Review (SPR) Department of the International Monetary Fund. She joined the IMF in September 2009. Previously, she worked in academia in Tokyo, Japan and was an associate professor of Economics at Toyo University and an assistant professor at Keio University. Since she joined the IMF, she has worked in multiple areas, including surveillance cases of European region (Estonia, Montenegro) as well as small and Fragile states (Tuvalu, Malawi), data standard assessment (Albania, Barbados, Botswana, Guyana, Seychelles). She also contributed to multilateral surveillance review and policy papers, including Review of the role of the SDR Board paper, External Sector Report, and a series of Board papers responding to the G-20 Data Gap Initiative.
Email: YHASHIMOTO@imf.org
Fluent In: Japanese.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Tokyo, 2003.
M.A. in Economics, University of Tokyo.
B.A. in Economics, Yokohama City University.
Previous Experience:
Associate Professor, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan. 2003-September 2009.
Assistant Professor, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan. 2000-2003.
Editorial Activities:
Guest editor, The IMF Research Perspectives, June 2019 issue, forthcoming.
Current Position:
Senior Economist, Non-concessional Lending Division, Strategy, Policy and Review (SPR) Department, IMF, February 2023- current.
Senior Economist, External Sector Policy Division, Strategy, Policy and Review (SPR) Department, IMF, July 2020 - February 2023.
Senior economist, Systemic Issues Division, Research Department, IMF. February 2016-current.
Senior economist, Data Dissemination and Review Division, Statistics Department, IMF. November 2012- February 2016.
Economist, Data Dissemination and Review Division, Statistics Department, IMF. September 2009-October 2012.
Other Professional Positions:
Special Appointee, International Monetary Fund (Research department and Asia-Pacific Department), Washington, D.C. October 2007-September 2008.
Visiting scholar, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, Hong Kong. August-September 2006.
Researcher, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Tokyo, Japan. January 2007-April 2007.
Visiting lecturer, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. September 2005-March 2006.
Researcher, The Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. December 2004-December 2005
Research associate, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan. October 2001-January 2003.
Research assistant, Institute for Monetary and Economics Studies, Bank of Japan, Tokyo, Japan. April-October 1999.
Country work or Mission Assignment:
Article IV, program negotiation missions and staff visit to Malawi (2020-2023)
Staff visit and Article IV to Tuvalu (2019-2020).
Article IV missions to Montenegro (2015). Worked on the external sector and structural reforms; provided a seminar at University of Montenegro - Economics Faculty: Seminar on Montenegro's Trade Performance; Published a Selected Issues Paper on Explaining Montenegro’s Export Performance (February 2016), IMF Country Report No. 16/80.
Article IV mission to Estonia (2013). Worked on the external sector and structural reforms; main contributor for labor market analysis in Annex.
DFID-GDDS workshop in Botswana (2010, organizer).
STA SDDS and GDDS missions: Seychelles (2015, mission chief); Barbados (2011, mission chief); Guyana (2011); Albania (2010); Seychelles (2010).
Field of Expertise:
Monetary Policy
Banking
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Macro-Financial Issues
International Trade
International Finance
Development Economics