Curriculum Vitae Dimiter Savov IALNAZOV Born on 13 June 1962 in Sofia, Bulgaria Address: Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University Yoshidahon machi, Sakyo ku, Kyoto 606 8501, Japan Tel: (+81 75) 7533472 Fax: (+81 75) 7533492 E mail: ialnazov@econ.kyoto u.ac.jp Web: http://www.econ.kyoto u.ac.jp/~ialnazov/ Education March 1997 PhD (Economics), Kanazawa University, Japan June 1987 MA and BA (Political Economy), Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov, former Soviet Union Work experience Dec. 2010 present Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan April 2001 Nov. 2010 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan March 2004 Visiting Scholar, University Paris VII, France Oct. 1998 March 2001 Research Associate, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan July 1997 June 1998 Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Kanazawa University April 1990 March 1993 Researcher, Center for Strategic Business and Political 1
Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria Jan. March 1993 National Coordinator, UNIDO project on environmental assistance to Central and Eastern European countries, Vienna, Austria Jan. 1988 March 1993 Researcher, Center for the Study of Bulgarian Political Behavior, Sofia University, Bulgaria Feb. 1989 June 1990 Part time Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology, Sofia University, Bulgaria Teaching at Kyoto University At the undergraduate level 1. Japanese (Economics and Business) E-A and E-B (in Japanese) 2. The Political Economy of European Integration (in English) 3. International Comparison of Corporate Governance (in English) At the graduate level 1. Readings on Institutional Economics (in English) 2. Readings on International Economics (in English) 3. Advanced Management Communication (in English) 4. European Economic Integration (in English) 5. Field research A and B (in English and Japanese) 6. Transition economics (in English) Other duties at Kyoto University 1. General supervision and guidance of international students 2. Organizing field study trips for international students to Japanese companies such as Mazda, Panasonic, Morinaga Milk, Meiji Chocolate, etc. 3. Organizing orientations and welcome parties for new international students 4. Coordination of international exchange agreements with foreign universities 2
5. Organizing international seminars and workshops on various topics such as Doing Business in Japan (2007), Food Safety in Japan (2008), M&As in Japan (2008), The Economic Transformation in the Former Socialist Countries (2009), The Emerging Economies in the Post Crisis Era (2010). 6. Member of the International Education and Exchange Committee, the Committee for Management of the East Asian Economic Research Center, the English Education Committee, etc. Other professional activities 2006 2009 Member of the Governing Council, Japanese Association for Comparative Studies of Management 2006 present Member of the Advisory Board, Journal of Comparative Economic Studies (in English) 2009 present Member of the research team on management at the EU Institute Kansai Membership in academic associations Japanese Association for Comparative Studies of Management (JACSM), Japanese Association for Comparative Economic Studies (JACES), Japanese Association for Evolutionary Economics (JAFEE), European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Bulgarian Macroeconomic Association (BMA) Research grants Project leader 2006: Grant for overseas research from Nomura Foundation, Strategies of euro adoption in the EU s new member states and candidate countries 2004 2005: Grant from Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation, The impact of European integration on corporate governance in Eastern Europe 2003 2004: Grant from Matsushita International Foundation, The development of capital markets in transition economies 2002: Grant from Kyoto University Foundation for the Promotion of Research and Education, The role of external anchors in transition economies 1999 2001: Grant in aid for young scientists No. 11730005 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Economic system 3
transformation in East Asia and Eastern Europe: institutional convergence or persistence of diversity? Member of the research team 2008 present: Grant in aid for scientific research No. 2402024 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The diversity of trajectories emerging from state socialism: the role of the government in managing the transition Scholarships 1993 1997: Japanese government (Monbusho) scholarship 1983 1987: Soviet government scholarship Languages Bulgarian native English, Japanese, Russian advanced level French intermediate level Publications Dissertations 1. Industrial Policy and Economic Development in Postwar Japan (1945 1973) from a Comparative Institutional Perspective, PhD dissertation (in English), 1997. 2. Regulation of Consumer Demand under Monopoly Capitalism, Master thesis (in Russian), 1987. Chapters in edited volumes 1. Europeanization and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in Bulgaria, 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 Race to the Bottom? Comparative Institutional Advantages? Competition of Capitalisms in the Enlarged EU, in Mizobata, S. (ed.), Varieties of Capitalism and Transformation, Bunrikaku: Kyoto, 2008, pp. 179 184. 4
3. (with R. Dobrinsky et al.) Economic Transition and Industrial Restructuring in Bulgaria, in Landesmann, M. and I. Szekely (eds.), Industrial Restructuring and Trade Reorientation in Eastern Europe, Cambridge University Press: New York, 1995, pp. 213 241. Articles in refereed journals 1. (with N. Nenovsky) A Game Theory Interpretation of the Post Communist Evolution, Journal of Economic Issues, 2011 (forthcoming). 2. "The Impact of EU Accession on Corporate Governance Reform in Bulgaria", Acta Oeconomica, Vol. 57 (2), 2007, pp. 157 190. 3. Ownership, Governance and Financing of Bulgarian Companies, Comparative Management Studies, Vol. 30, 2006, pp. 16 42. 4. The Capital Market and Corporate Governance in Bulgaria, Comparative Management Studies, Vol. 29, 2005, pp. 111 122. 5. Can a Country Extricate Itself from Its Post Socialist Trajectory? The Role of External Anchors in Bulgaria, Comparative Economic Systems, Vol. 10, 2003, pp. 85 103. 6. Currency Boards in Transition Economies: The Bulgarian Experience (1997 2000), Comparative Management Studies, Vol. 26, 2002, pp. 85 104. 7. The Transition to Capitalism in Post Socialist Bulgaria (1989 1997): A Comparative Perspective, Comparative Economic Systems, Vol. 5, 1998, pp. 99 110. Other articles 1. (with N. Nenovsky) The Evolution of Cooperation in Post Communist Countries (in Bulgarian), Sociological Issues Monthly, Vol. 3 4, 2009, pp. 156-174. 2. Bulgaria s Accession to the EU: Problems and Perspectives (in Japanese), Russian Eurasian Economy, No. 901, 2007, pp. 2 16. 3. (with N. Nenovsky) The Currency Board and Bulgaria s Accession to the European Monetary Union, Kyoto University Economic Review, Vo. LXX, No. ½, April Oct. 2001, pp. 31 48. 4. The Transition to Market Economy in Bulgaria: Ten Years after the Fall of Communism (in Japanese), Russian Eurasian Economy, No. 814, 2000, pp. 2 20. 5. Privatization and Enterprise Control in Bulgaria from a Comparative Perspective, Comparative Management Studies, Vol. 24, 1999, pp. 75 86. 5
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, Japanese Slavic and East European Studies, Vol. 25, 2004, pp. 183 190. Selected presentations at academic conferences, workshops and seminars 1. The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Eastern European Economies, Paper presented at the international symposium The Global Economic Crisis and Climate Change, 28 31 January 2010, Kyungpook University, Daegu, South Korea. 2. Comparison of the Post Socialist Transformation in the CEE, Russia and China, Paper presented at a special seminar of the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, 16 November 2009, Dublin, Ireland. 3. The Post Socialist Trajectories of Bulgaria and Romania and the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis, Paper presented at the international workshop Bulgarie et Roumanie trois ans après l adhesion: quels modeles de capitalisme, 13 November 2009, University Denis Diderot, Paris, France. 4. Economic Crisis in the Southeast European Countries, Paper presented at the international workshop The Global Shock Wave, 31 May 2009, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (KIER), Kyoto. 5. The Financial Crisis in European Emerging Economies, Paper presented at the EACES Asian Workshop in Kyoto Sustainability and Future Perspectives of Emerging Markets Through the Lens of Asian Dynamics, 26 27 February 2009, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (KIER), Kyoto. 6. Corporate Governance in Eastern Europe, Paper presented at a RIEB seminar, 16 January 2009, Research Institute for Economics and Business (RIEB), Kobe University, Kobe. 7. The Emergence and Evolution of Bulgarian Business Groups, Paper presented at the 33rd conference of Japan's Association for Comparative Studies of Management, 4 6 July 2008, Sapporo University, Sapporo. 8. The Diversity of Post Socialist Transformation Paths and the Evolutionary Institutional Approach, Paper presented at the 2nd Forum of the World Association for Political Economy, 27 28 October 2007, University of Shimane, Hamada. 9. The Diversity of Post Socialist Transformation Paths: A Comparison of Bulgaria and Romania, Paper presented at a special seminar of the Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 18 September 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria. 6
10. "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. 11. "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. 12. "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. 13. "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. 14. "Capital Markets in Transition Economies: the Case of Bulgaria", Paper presented at a CEMI seminar, 23 March 2004, Centre d'etudes des Modes de l'industrialization (CEMI), Paris, France. 15. "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 16. The Currency Board in Bulgaria, Paper presented at the IDE-JETRO seminar Exchange rate regimes in developing countries, 24 October 2003, Chuo University, Tokyo. 17. "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. 18. "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. 7