Masato Hiwatari, Researcher (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University)
- Profile
- Masato Hiwatari graduated from the Department of Social and International Relations at The University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2001. He completed a Doctoral Program in the Department of Advanced Social and International Studies of the university’s Graduate School of Arts and Science in 2006; he received a Ph.D. He subsequently served as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (PD); he has been an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University since 2009, an Graduate School of Arts and Science, Tokyo University since 2024
- Publications
- The Customary Economy and Economic Development: the Community-Based Structure of a Mahalla in Uzbekistan (in Japanese), University of Tokyo Press, 2008.
I have studied the functions and structures of the customary economy, communities, social networks, and the like in developing and transitional countries and other regions where markets are not yet fully developed. My work has also included field surveying in Uzbekistan. Currently, I am interested in quantitative analysis methods using network data.
