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ABOUT ME

I am an Associate Professor of Economics at Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. Prior to joining to Waseda University, I worked at Louisiana State University and Kyoto University as an Assistant Professor.

My research fields include Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, and the Japanese Economy. More specifically, I am working on issues related to business cycles, monetary policy, sectoral comovement, and so on.

More detailed CV is available below:

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IDEAS / RePEc

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Publication:

Sticky-Wages in a World of Ideas (with Kevin X. D. Huang, Mototsugu Shintani, and Takayuki Tsuruga), 2022, Economic Inquiry, 60(4), 1757-1781. [working paper]
Uncertainty Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment Goods (with Kwang Hwan Kim), 2018, Review of Economic Dynamics, 30, 163-178. [working paper]
Inter-sectoral Labor Immobility, Sectoral Comovement, and News Shocks (with Kwang Hwan Kim), 2018, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 50(1), 77-114. [working paper]
The Delayed Effects of Monetary Shocks in a Two-sector New Keynesian Model (with Kwang Hwan Kim), 2013, Journal of Macroeconomics, 38 Part B, 243-259. [working paper]
Declining Effects of Oil Price Shocks, 2013, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 45(6), 977-1016. [working paper]
Non-Separability and Sectoral Comovement in a Sticky Price Model (with Kwang Hwan Kim), 2013, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37(9), 1715-1735. [working paper]
Housing, Wealth Effects, and Monetary Policy (with Kwang Hwan Kim), 2013, Global Economic Review, 42(1), 55-71.

Working Papers:

Nightless City: Impacts of Policymakers' Questions on Overtime Work of Government Officials (with Natsuki Arai, Masashige Hamano, Yuki Murakami, and Katsunori Yamada)
Epidemics and Macroeconomic Dynamics (with Masashige Hamano)
COVID-19 Misperception and Macroeconomy (with Masashige Hamano and So Kubota)
Sticky-Wage Models and Knowledge Capital: A Note (with Kevin X. D. Huang, Mototsugu Shintani, and Takayuki Tsuruga)
Rising Skill Premium?: The Roles of Capital-Skill Complementarity and Sectoral Shifts in a Two-Sector Economy (with Naoko Hara and Ryo Kato)
Improving Recession Probability Forecasts in the U.S. Economy

Macro Seminar Schedule:

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There is no guarantee that it reflects the latest information. This is experimental and I appreciate any suggestions from you (workshops to be crawled, how to manage/improve the calendar, etc...).

Teaching:

All course-related materials are posted on Waseda Moodle.

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FAQ page (in Japanese) for my seminar classes.

Contact

1-6-1 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-8050, Japan
Phone: +81 3 5286 1224
Email: [email protected]

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