Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Toronto

e-mail: migiwa.tanaka (at) utoronto.ca

CV :[pdf]

Research Interest: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

Research Paper:

"Deflation in Durable Goods Markets: An Empirical Model of the Tokyo Condominium Market," IMES Discussion Paper Series, Feb 2008

"Currency Demand, New Technology and the Adoption of Electronic Money: Evidence Using Individual Household Data" IMES Discussion Paper Series, Nov 2009, with Hiroshi Fujiki

"Estimation of Dynamic Demand for Housing with Transactions Cost, the Case of Japan" (please e-mail me for detail)

Recent Conference Presentations:

April 1, 2010: Economics of Payment, NY FED

June 25, 2008: NBER Japan Project Meeting, Tokyo Japan

June 21, 2008: Econometric Society Summer Meeting, Pittsburgh U.S.A.

May 31, 2008: Japan Economic Association Spring Meeting, Sendai Japan

July 4, 2007: La Pietra-Mondragon Workshop , Florence Italy

Teaching:  

ECO 220Y - Quantitative Methods in Economics [Website] -- Fall 2010- Spring 2011

ECON 110 - Introductory Microeconomics [syllabus]-- Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010 at HKUST

ECON 554/613A - Industrial Organization and Regulations [syllabus]-- Spring 2009, Spring 2010 at HKUST