Ryoji Ohdoi

Current employment

Professor, School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University, April 2022-present

Past employment

• Tokyo Institute of Technology, April 2012-March 2023

  • Visiting Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, April 2022-March 2023

  • Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, April 2016-March 2022

  • Associate Professor, Department of Social Engineering, April 2012-March 2016

• Osaka City University, April 2006-March 2011

  • Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, April 2008-March 2012

  • Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, April 2006-March 2008

• JSPS Research Fellow, April 2004-March 2006

Education

• Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Ph.D., March 2006

• Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, M.A., March 2003

• Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, B.E., March 2001

Published papers

Journal articles (refereed)

• Ryoji Ohdoi, "Financial shocks to banks, R&D investment, and recessions," Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming, 2023.
  DOI: 10.1017/S1365100523000354

• Masato Masuyama and  Ryoji Ohdoi, "The relationship between mandatory retirement and patterns of human capital accumulation," Economics Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2, 1192–1202, 2022.

• Ryoji Ohdoi and Koichi Futagami, "Welfare implications of non-unitary time discounting," Theory and Decision, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 85–115, 2021.
  DOI: 10.1007/s11238-020-09766-0

• Ryoji Ohdoi, "International transmission of financial shocks without financial integration," Economics Letters, vol. 170, pp. 46–49, 2018.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.05.030

• Ryo Horii, Ryoji Ohdoi, and Kazuhiro Yamamoto, "Financial infrastructure, technological shift, and inequality in economic development," Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 531–562, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1017/S1365100511000356

• Takumi Naito and Ryoji Ohdoi,"A two-country model of trade and growth with intersectoral knowledge spillovers," Journal of Economics, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 39–58, 2011.
  DOI: 10.1007/s00712-010-0178-4

• Takumi Naito and Ryoji Ohdoi, "Dynamics of a two-sector endogenous growth model with intersectoral knowledge spillovers," Economic Theory, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 599–605, 2008.
  DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0242-7

• Koichi Futagami, Tatsuro Iwaisako, and Ryoji Ohdoi, "Debt policy rule, productive government spending, and multiple growth paths," Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 445–462, 2008.
  DOI: 10.1017/S1365100508070235

• Yunfang Hu, Ryoji Ohdoi, and Koji Shimomura, "Indeterminacy in a two-sector endogenous growth model with productive government spending," Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1104–1123, 2008.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2007.07.009

• Ryoji Ohdoi, "Productive government spending, patterns of specialization and economic growth in a small open economy," Japanese Economic Review, vol. 58, no. 1, pp.  127–146, 2007.
  DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2007.00344.x

Journal articles (non refereed)

• Ryoji Ohdoi, "Innovation, foreign direct investment and local content requirement," OCU Economic Review, vol. 45, pp. 35–52, 2010.

Presentations

2023: International Conference on International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics (international meeting, at Kobe U)

2022: The 149th Meeting of the OEIO (held online); KIER Workshop on Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis of Macroeconomic Dynamics (domestic meeting, at Kumamoto Gakuen U)

2021: KIER Workshop on Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis of Macroeconomic Dynamics (domestic meeting, at Tokyo Institute of Technology)

2019: International Conference on Trade, Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Dynamics (international meeting, at Kobe U);  Tohoku U (invited seminar)

2018: The 18th Annual SAET Conference (international meeting, at Academia Sinica); Osaka City U (invited seminar);  KIER Workshop on Population and Economic Growth (domestic meeting, at Kumamoto Gakuen U)

2017: RoMacs (invited seminar, at Kobe U)

2016: The OEIO "Tokyo Conference" Spring 2016 (international meeting, at U of Tokyo)

2015: DSGE Workshop (invited seminar, at Senshu U)

2014: Economic Theory and Policy Workshop (invited seminar, at Aoyama Gakuin U)

2013: Tohoku U (invited seminar); The 72nd Meeting of the OEIO (invited seminar, at Osaka U)

2012: Hokkaido U (invited seminar)

2011: Policy Modeling Workshop (invited seminar,  at GRIPS); Tokyo Tech (invited seminar)

2010: Okayama U (invited seminar)

2009: The 32nd Meeting of the OEIO (invited seminar, at Osaka U); SWET (domestic meeting, at Hokkaido U); East Asia Economic Forum (at Jilin U)

2008: Osaka Prefecture U (invited seminar)

2007: The CEA (UK) and CCES Joint International Conference (international meeting, at Fudan U, invited);  Osaka U of Econ (invited seminar); Nagoya U (invited seminar); Kansai Macroeconomic Workshop (invited seminar, at Osaka U)

2006: The 1st Meeting of the OEIO (invited seminar, at Osaka U); Kwansei Gakuin U (invited seminar)

2005: Policy Modeling Workshop (invited seminar, at GRIPS);  Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting (domestic meeting, at Kyoto Sangyo U);  Osaka Prefecture U (invited seminar)

2004: Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting (domestic meeting, at Okayama U);  Kwansei Gakuin U (invited seminar)

2003: The 2003 Kyoto Conference of Kansai Macroeconomic Workshop (domestic meeting, at Kyoto U); Urban Economic Workshop (invited seminar, at Kyoto U (KIER)); Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting (domestic meeting, at Oita U)

2002: Kobe U (RIEB)(invited seminar)

Invited discussions at domestic/international meetings

2019: The 9th Spring Meeting of the Japan Society of International Economics  (at Kochi Prefecture U)

2018: The 12th Macroeconomic Conference for Young Economists (at Osaka U Nakanoshima Center)

2016: Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting (at Nagoya U), The 75th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of International Economics (at Chukyo U)

2015: Workshop on Economic Growth Analysis and Evaluation of  Science, Technology and Innovation Policies (at Shonan Village Center, sponsored by the MEXT SciREX program), Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting (at Sophia U)

2013: Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting (at Kanagawa U), The 17th Annual Meeting of the Japan Public Choice Society (at Komazawa U)

2012: Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting (at Hokkaido U), The 14th Macroeconomic Conference (at Hotel Hankyu Expo Park, sponsored by the MEXT GCOE program "Human Behavior and Socioeconomic Dynamics")

2011: The 1st Spring Conference of the Japan Society of International Economics (at Ryukoku U), The 5th Macroeconomic Conference for Young Economists (at Kyoto U Shirankaikan Annex, sponsored by the GCOE program "Human Behavior and Socioeconomic Dynamics")

Professional services 

• Referee for:  Applied Economics; B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics; Bulletin of Economic Research; Economic Modelling; Economics Bulletin; International Economic Journal; International Economic Review; International Journal of Economic Theory; Japan and the World Economy; Japanese Economic Review; Journal of Economics;  Journal of Evolutionary Economics;  Journal of International Trade & Economic Development; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Macroeconomic Dynamics;  Gendai Keizaigaku no Choryu (the proceedings of the Japanese Economic Association)

• Member of program committee, 2015 Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting

• Member of local organizing committee, 2006 Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting

Teaching experience

• Macroeconomics A (undergraduate, Kwansei Gakuin University) AY2022-

• Macroeconomics B (undergraduate, Kwansei Gakuin University) AY2022-

• Introductory Economics (undergraduate, Kwansei Gakuin University) AY2022-

• Advanced Macroeconomics (graduate, Tokyo Institute of Technology) AY2012-AY2021

• Macroeconomics I (undergraduate, Tokyo Institute of Technology) AY2012-AY2021

• Macroeconomics II (undergraduate, Tokyo Institute of Technology) AY2012-AY2021

• Open-Economy Macroeconomics (graduate, Osaka City University) AY2007-AY2011.

• Macroeconomics I (graduate, Osaka City University) AY2009, AY2012.

• Open-Economy Macroeconomics (undergraduate, Osaka City University) AY2007-AY2011.

Grants

Principal investigator

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant #: 19K01646, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2019-March 2024 (scheduled)

• Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant #: 20730160, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, April 2008-March 2010

• Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up), Grant #: 18830060,  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2006-March 2008

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (JSPS Fellows), Grant #: 04J07907, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2004-March 2006

• MEXT Joint Usage/Research Center at KIER, Kyoto University, April 2020-March 2021, April 2021-March 2022, April 2024-March 2025 (Scheduled)

Co-investigator

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant #: 22H00845, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2022-March 2027 (scheduled)

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant #: 17H02524, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2017-March 2022

• MEXT Joint Usage/Research Center at KIER, Kyoto University, April 2017-March 2018, April 2018-March 2019, April 2019-March 2020, April 2022-March 2023, April 2023-March 2024