Profile / CV / Research / Teaching/Advising / Contact Information
Recent research…
“Do Interest Rates Matter? Credit Demand
in the Dhaka Slums” with Rajeev Dehejia and Jonathan
Morduch. Presented at the EEA Meetings in New York February 26-March 2 2009.
SSRI-IACS Sponsored International
Symposium: The Global Financial
Crisis-Implications for Asia. Monday February 23, 13:15-15:00 in
Diffendorfer Auditorium.
“The
Effectiveness of Bank Recapitalization in Japan.” (with Satoshi
Shimizutani). Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 21. No. 1,
January 2009, pp. 1-25.
“米欧銀への資本注入―日本の教訓から”日本経済新聞経済教室2008年11月27日。（English
translation, “Bank Recapitalization
in the West – Lessons from Japan”, which appeared in the Nikkei Shinbun Newspaper November 26,
2008）
"Can
Commercially-Oriented Microfinance Help Meet the Millenium Development Goals?
Evidence from Pakistan" with John Weiss.
Profile
Heather Montgomery
is an Associate Professor with International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, Japan
where she teaches Money and Banking and International Economy
(International Finance and International Trade) courses in the college of
liberal arts and graduate school of public administration while pursuing her
research interest in financial institutions in Asia.
Prior to joining ICU, she worked as
an economist with JP Morgan Securities in Tokyo,
where she was responsible for
analysis and forecasting of the Japanese macroeconomy and monetary and fiscal
policy. She also has five years of experience
with the Asian Development Bank Institute directing policy-oriented empirical
research on the financial sector in developing countries Asian and organizing
and conducting regional trainings for practitioners and policy
makers on the financial sector, including microfinance.
Dr. Montgomery holds B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Johns Hopkins
University and the University of Michigan
with a specialization in international trade/finance and macroeconomics and has
also studied at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy.
While completing her Ph.D. dissertation research on the role of
regulatory capital and bank credit in the macroeconomy of Japan, she held visiting positions at the
Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington
DC, as well as the Bank of Japan, Ministry of
Finance, and Ministry for International Trade and Industry (MITI) in Tokyo.