Professor Amyx's work focuses on the political economy of East Asia, with a particular emphasis on the politics of financial regulation and reform in Japan and on regional financial cooperation initiatives in East Asia since the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis. Her book, Japan’s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change (Princeton University Press, 2004) was awarded the 2005 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Her professional publications also include a 2003 volume edited with Peter Drysdale, Japanese Governance: Beyond Japan, Inc. Her 2001 paper titled, "Moving Beyond Bilateralism? Japan and the Asian Monetary Fund" was awarded the J.G. Crawford Award. Dr. Amyx spent 2005-06 on sabbatical as a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) International Affairs Fellow. In the first 6 months of her tenure, she worked in Tokyo on projects commissioned by Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and by the ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers. She then spent the second 6 months of her tenure in Washington, DC, working in the East Asia Division at the US Department of the Treasury. Professor Amyx has also held a number of visiting scholar positions at institutions in Japan, Australia and the US. These have included the Institute for Fiscal and Monetary Policy (IFMP) in Japan's Ministry of Finance; Japan's Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry(RIET); the Bank of Japan (BOJ); the University of New South Wales School of Law; the East-West Center; and Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia/Pacific Research Center (A/PARC). Current research includes two new book manuscripts near completion. The first delves into the political logic behind patterns of cooperation between financial and monetary authorities in East Asia since the Asian financial crisis; the second analyzes the transformation of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the political battle over postal privatization under the Koizumi Administration. Other work in progress examines the politics of the reform of government financial institutions in Japan (focusing in particular on the Development Bank of Japan and on the Japan Bank for International Cooperation), analyzes the role of the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ) in corporate restructuring and jump-starting of the private equity market in Japan,and examines the political economy of foreign exchange reserve management in Asia.