UCSD - The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Ulrike Schaede
Associate Professor

UCSD, IR/PS, 9500 Gilman Drive,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Office #1317

Phone: (858) 534-2357
Fax (858) 534-3939
Email: uschaede@ucsd.edu

Expert Sheet
Expertise
Schaede is an authority on Japanese business organization, management and strategy. She also works on Japanese financial markets and venture capital; corporate governance, and government-business relations in Japan.

Current Projects
Schaede's ongoing research project concerns corporate renewal and changing business strategies in 21st century Japan. A second stream of research is small firms and the reform of poverty policies in a changing Japanese political economy.

Perspective
Schaede can discuss corporate reform and business revival in Japan.

Publications of Note
Schaede has written several books and papers on Japan's financial system and stock market regulation. In 2000, she published Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan. Recent working papers discuss changes in business groups and Japan’s main bank system; investment funds, institutional investors and hostile takeovers; legal reform and “revitalization”, as well as changing employment strategies and non-regular work.

Background Notes
Schaede is bilingual (English/German) as well as fluent in Japanese. She has lived in Japan for a total of more than six years, and has been a visiting scholar at the research institutes of the Bank of Japan, Japan's Ministry of Finance and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Before joining IR/PS in 1994, she held positions at Marburg University in Germany, and the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.