Edward J. Lincoln

Clinical Professor of Economics
Director, Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies
Joined Stern: 2006

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street, Room 7-89
New York, NY 10012
Email: elincoln@stern.nyu.edu


	Structure and Change in the Japanese Economy East Asian Economic Integration U.S. Economic Policy Toward Japan and East Asia

Academic Background
PhD, Economics, 1978	Yale University
MA, Economics, East Asian Studies, 1974	Yale University
BA, Economics, 1971	Amherst College

Biography

Edward J. Lincoln is the Director of the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies and Clinnical Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. In his current position, Professor Lincoln teaches courses on the Japanese economy, East Asian economic issues, and the global economy. Professor Lincoln joined NYU in 2006.

Professor Lincoln’s research interests include contemporary structure and change in the Japanese economy, East Asian economic integration, and U.S. economic policy toward Japan and East Asia. He is the author of eight books and monographs, including East Asian Economic Regionalism (The Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution, 2004), Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform (Brookings, 2001), and Troubled Times: U.S.-Japan Economic Relations in the 1990s (Brookings, 1998). An earlier book, Japan Facing Economic Maturity (Brookings, 1988) received the Masayoshi Ohira Award for outstanding books on the Asia-Pacific region.

Before joining NYU, Professor Lincoln was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and earlier a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In the mid-1990s, he served as Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Walter Mondale at the American Embassy in Tokyo. He has also been a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Professor Lincoln received his Bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, his MA in both Economics and East Asian Studies from Yale University, and his PhD in Economics from Yale University.