EMPLOYMENT

Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, August  2011 to present 
       Associate Professor, Department of Economics 

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, Sept 2009 - August 2011
       Senior Economist, Oct 2010 to August 2011
       Economist, Sept 2009 to Sept 2010

University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, Aug 2007 - May 2009
        Assistant Professor, Department of Finance and Business Economics

EDUCATION

PRIMARY RESEARCH FIELDS

PUBLISHED PAPERS

1. "Social Security Reforms: Benefit Claiming, Labor Force Participation and Long-run Sustainability"
   (joint with Selahattin Imrohoroglu)
   American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, forthcoming
2. "Hiring Subsidies, Job Creation and Job Destruction" 
   (joint with Aysegul Sahin and Joseph Song)
   Economics Letters, 2011 (December), Vol. 113: No. 3, pp. 248-251.
3. "Why Small Businesses Were Hit Harder by the Recent Recession" 
   (joint with Aysegul Sahin, Anna Cororaton and Sergiu Laiu)
   Current Issues in Economics and Finance, 2011 (July), Vol. 17: No. 4.
4. "Financing Medicare: A General Equilibrium Analysis" 
   (joint with Orazio Attanasio and Gianluca Violante) 
   In Demography and the Economy, 2011, edited by John Shoven, University of Chicago Press. 
5. "Macroeconomic and Redistributional Effects of Consumption Taxes in the United States"
   Japanese Economic Review, 2011 (March), Vol. 62:No. 1, pp. 63-81.
6. "Labor-dependent Capital Income Taxation"
   Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010 (November), Vol. 57: No. 8, pp. 959-974. 
7. "Short-run Fiscal Policy: Welfare, Redistribution and Aggregate Effects in the Short and Long-run"
   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010 (October), Vol. 34: No. 10, pp. 2109-2125.
8. "Individual Retirement Accounts, Saving and Labor Supply"
   Economics Letters, 2010 (August), Vol. 108: No. 2, pp. 197-200 
9. "Labor Supply Elasticity and Social Security Reform"
   (joint with Selahattin Imrohoroglu)
   Journal of Public Economics, 2009 (August), Vol. 93: No. 7-8, pp. 867-878
10. "Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!" 
    (joint with Juan Carlos Conesa and Dirk Krueger)
    American Economic Review, 2009 (March), Vol. 99: No. 1, pp.25-48
11. "U.S. Tax Policy and Health Insurance Demand: Can a Regressive Policy Improve Welfare?" 
    (joint with Karsten Jeske)
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009 (March), Vol. 56: No.2, pp. 210-221
12. "Entrepreneurship, Taxation and Capital Investment"
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 2008 (January), Vol. 11: No. 1, pp. 44-69
13. "Global Demographic Trends and Social Security Reform"
    ( joint with Orazio Attanasio and Gianluca Violante)
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007 (January), Vol. 54: No. 1, pp. 144-198
14. "Quantifying the Effects of the Demographic Transition in Developing Economies"
    (joint with Orazio Attanasio and Gianluca Violante)
    The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Advances in Macroeconomics, 2006 (April), Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 2.

WORKING PAPERS & WORK IN PROGRESS

• "A Life Cycle Model of Trans-Atlantic Employment Experiences"
  (joint with Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent)

• "Sustaining Fiscal Balance in Japan"
  (joint with Selahattin Imrohoroglu)

• "Sustainable Social Security: Four Options"

OTHER EXPERIENCE

• The University of Tokyo, CIRJE, June-July 2007, June 2010
        Short-term visitor, Tokyo, Japan

• International Monetary Fund, Research Department, June-Aug 2004
         Intern, Washington, D.C.

• Merrill Lynch & Co., Credit Research Department, June-Aug 2000
         Intern, New York and Tokyo

• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Jan-Mar 1994
         Intern, Tokyo, Japan

• Japan-America Student Conference, June-Aug 1993
         Intern, Washington, D.C.

• Yujin gakuin (public primary school), Jan-May 1992
         Assistant instructor of Japanese language, volunteer, Eugene, Oregon

• University of Oregon,  September 1992 - May 1993
         Exchange student, Eugene, Oregon

 

INVITED SEMINARS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (incl. scheduled)

• 2011 Hunter College CUNY, Yeshiva University, CUNY Graduate Center, Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings in Nashville, NYU Alumni Conference,  Canon Institute for Global Studies Conference on Macroeconomic Theory and Policy.
• 2010 AEA Annual Meetings in Atlanta, JEA Annual Meetings in Chiba, University of Tokyo, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, SED Meetings in Montreal, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Queen's University, Rutgers University, SUNY Albany, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• 2009 University of Hawaii, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Stony Brook University, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• 2008 NBER Conference on Demography and the Economy, USC, UC San Diego, University of Tokyo, Bank of Japan, New York/Philadelphia Fed Workshop on Quantitative Macroeconomics
• 2007 AEA Annual Meetings in Chicago, Columbia GSB, University of Maryland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, University of Tokyo (2), University of Pennsylvania, Bank of Japan
• 2006 Carnegie-Rochester Conference, USC Marshall, NYU Stern, University College London, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• 2005 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, University of Tokyo, Chicago-NYU College Bowl, German Workshop in Macroeconomics, SED Meetings in Budapest, Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings in Iowa City
• 2004 IMF Workshop on DSGE Modeling
   

GRANT & FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

• Abe Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2012-2013

• Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative at USC, 2009

• Steven H. Sandell Grant Program, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, 2008

• CV Starr Center Fellowship, New York University, 2007

• Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2005 - 2006

• Graduate Research Assistantship, New York University, 2003 - 2005

• IMF Joint-Japan Scholarship, 2001 - 2003

• AT&T Leadership Award, 1999 - 2000

• Exchange program scholarship, Waseda University and University of Oregon, 1992-1993
   

OTHER ACTIVITIES & AFFILIATIONS

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