Research Fields:
Economic fluctuations and growth; Labor economics; and Quantitative applied economics
Research Papers:
- The Size of Government and US-European differences in Economic Performance, (with G. Bell), April 2009, Working Paper, International Monetary Fund
- Performance Pay, Efficiency Wages and Unemployment Fluctuations, mimeo, under revision
- Entry Costs, Vacancy Destruction and Employment Fluctuations, March 2008
- How Large are Externalities in Human Capital Investment in Matching Models? (old manuscript)
- The Empirical Content of Relational Contracts in Matching Markets, January 2008
Current Teaching:
Advanced Topics in Economic Policy (I: Macro; II: International)
Labor Economics (syllabus)
Intro to Economics
Japanese Economy
Grants:
The Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2009-10.
"Search Frictions, Employment Fluctuations and Labor Market Policy."
On-Going Projects:
- Bayesian Model Averaging and Economic Development
- Generalizing efficiency wage (moral hazard) models in some different ways in macro literature
- Family(household production) structures and aggregate economic performance
- Panel data analysis of aged households in Japan
Publications:
- No-shirking Conditions in Frictional Labor Markets, Economics Bulletin, Vol 10, No.1
- The Size of Government and Economic Performance, (with G. Bell), in Anwendungsorientierte Marktwirtschaftslehre und Neue Politische Okonomie, Metropolis-Ferlag, Aug 2008
- Private Information and Employment Fluctuations, (in Japanese), Mita Journal of Economics, July 2008
Selected Conference Presentation:
- Summer Workshop of Economic Theory (SWET) 2008, at Otaru University of Commerce (program)
- Australasian Macroeconomics Workshop (Sydney), March 26-27, 2008 (program, pic)
- Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (Iowa), May 2005 (program)
- Search Theory Conference (Osaka), February 2009
Miscellaneous:
Languages: English; Japanese; Matlab; R; and Fortran.
I lived here. While I am not working, I cook, travel, and study environmental economics.
日本語（講義など）