Taiki Murai M.Sc.  

I am a scholarship holder of the "Stiftung Kapitalmarktforschung für den Finanzstandort Deutschland", Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).

Institute for Economic Policy
University of Leipzig
Grimmaische Straße 12
D-04109 Leipzig

Email: murai[at]wifa.uni-leipzig.de
Phone: +49 (0) 341-9733565
Fax:     +49 (0) 341-9733569

Room: I238
Office hours: On appointment

Interests

• International finance and trade
• System of National Accounts and Balance of Payments
  
• Financial flows and persistent current account imbalances
• Monetary and fiscal policy

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 11/2017 - present: University of Leipzig, PhD student in Economics, Institute for Economic Policy
• 10/2014 - 04/2017: University of Leipzig, Master of Science in Economics
• 04/2009 - 09/2014: Waseda University, Japan, Bachelor of Arts in International Liberal Studies
• 10/2012 - 09/2013: University of Leipzig, Visiting Student
• 07/2009 - 09/2009: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) U.S., Visiting Student

Work Experience

• 11/2017 - present: University of Leipzig, Research Associate, Institute for Economic Policy
• 10/2014 - 09/2017: University of Leipzig, Student Research Assistant, Institute for Economic Policy
• 10/2015 - 12/2015: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Germany, Research Assistant, Asia Division
• 07/2013 - 09/2013: Commerzbank, Germany, Intern, Private Banking Division
• 07/2012 - 09/2012: Manoir Industries, Japan, Intern, Management in Petrochem & Nuclear Division

Awards & Scholarships

• 01/2018 - present: Scholarship of the "Stiftung Kapitalmarktforschung für den Finanzstandort Deutschland", Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Germany
• 03/2014: Award with Distinction for the Best Thesis in the 2013 Thesis Contest of the European Institute in Japan (EUIJ), Japan
• 04/2009 - 03/2010: Ôkuma 125th Anniversary Scholarship, Waseda University, Japan

Publications

Work in Progress

Murai, Taiki and Schnabl, Gunther (2018): A Decoupling of Gross Capital inflows and Outflows: Germany’s Persistent Current Account Surplus from the Financial Account Perspective

 

Media

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2018): Deutschland ist Exportweltmeister dank riskanten Finanzanlagen [= Germany is world export champion thanks to risky financial investments], Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 7.

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2018): Rettungspaket für die Türkei? Wie der Wertverlust der türkischen Lira zum Risiko wird [= European rescue package for Turkey? How the recent depreciation of the Turkish lira becomes a financial and political risk], ÖkonomenBlog der Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft, September 6.

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2018): Wer treibt den deutschen Leistungsbilanzüberschuss auf ein Allzeithoch? [= Who is driving Germany's current account surplus to an all-time high?], Wirtschaftliche Freiheit: Das Ordnungspolitische Journal, August 24.

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2018): EZB und Finanzpolitik treiben deutschen Überschuss [= The ECB and the German government are driving the German export surplus], Börsen-Zeitung, July 25, No. 140, page 7.

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2018): Was Shinzo Abe besser als Angela Merkel macht und warum beide auf dem Holzweg sind [= What makes Shinzo Abe better than Angela Merkel and why both are on the wrong track], ÖkonomenBlog der Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft, January 16.

Murai, Taiki and Gunther Schnabl (2017): The Japanese Shinkin banks turn away from the regional economy, A Blog of the NYU Colloquium on Market Institutions and the Leipzig Colloquium on the Market Order, December 4.

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2017): Japans Genossenschaftsbanken wenden sich von ihrer regionalen Wirtschaft ab [= Japan's cooperative banks are turning their back on their regional economies], Börsen-Zeitung, November 25, No. 227, page 4.

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2017): Die Bank von Japan schrumpft das Taschengeld der japanischen Anzugträger [= The Bank of Japan is shrinking the pocket money of the Japanese salaryman], ÖkonomenBlog der Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft, August 24.

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2017): The Bank of Japan creates a state-led monopolistic banking system, A Blog of the NYU Colloquium on Market Institutions and the Leipzig Colloquium on the Market Order, June 14.

Murai, Taiki, and Gunther Schnabl (2017): Die Bank von Japan schafft ein monopolistisches Bankensystem [= The Bank of Japan creates a state-led monopolistic banking system], Wirtschaftliche Freiheit: Das Ordnungspolitische Journal, April 3.