Selected publications
Anchoring Long-run Inflation Expectations: Experimental Evidence from Japan,
Japanese Economic Review, Accepted
Why Do People Dislike Inflation? The Role of Missing Debt Erosion Channel (DP version)
Applied Economics Letters, 2026, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 1437-1442.
Inflation Expectations and Household Expenditure: Evidence from Japanese Pseudo-panel Data, (DP version) (slides) (with Masahiro Hori)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, Vol. 214, pp. 308-324.
Trust in the Central Bank and Inflation Expectations: Experimental Evidence (Online Appendix)
Economics Letters, 2023, Vol. 231, 111296.
Do the Self-Employed Underreport Their Income? Evidence from Japanese Panel Data, (DP version) (slides) (with Junya Hamaaki)
The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2023, Vol. 67, 101244.
Covered by The Nikkei (Feb 18, 2026)
How Does Household Expenditure Respond to Expected Inflation Rates in Japan? Evidence from Randomized Information Treatments, (Online Appendix)
Applied Economics Letters, 2023, Vol. 30, Issue 15, pp. 2035-2039.
The impact of the rise and collapse of Japan's housing price bubble on households’ lifetime utility, (DP version) (with Fumihiko Suga)
The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2021, Vol. 60, 101136
Housing Wealth Effects in Japan: Evidence Based on Household Microdata (slides, DP version)
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2019, Vol. 19, No. 2. (with Masahiro Hori)
The Effect of Inheritance Receipt on Individual Labor Supply: Evidence from Japanese Microdata (slides, DP version) (with Masahiro Hori)
Japan and the World Economy, 2019, Vol. 49, pp. 176-186.
Do the Rich Save More? -Evidence Based on Two Micro Datasets for the 2000s- (with Masahiro Hori, Koichiro Iwamoto, and Fumihiko Suga)
Japanese Economic Review, 2016, Vol. 67, No.4, pp. 474-494.
Capacity Utilization and the Effects of Energy Price Increases in Japan
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 2014, 14(1), pp.241-266. (slides)
Works in progress
Consumption Insurance in Japan: Evidence from Subjective Expectations (with Junya Hamaaki)
Household Spending Plans under a Permanent VAT Hike and a Temporary VAT Cut (with Kazuki Hiraga)
Monetary Policy Announcements and Household Expectations: Evidence from Two Identification Strategies, (DP version)
People's Understanding of Inflation in Japan
Revise and resubmit, Japanese Economic Review
Opinion Gaps on the Economy: Economists vs. the General Public
Payday Effects and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Japanese Pension Payment
Referee services (in alphabetical order)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economics, Asian Economic Journal, BMC Psychology, Economics Bulletin (4), Finance Research Letters, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Japanese Economic Review, Japan and the World Economy (2), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economy Culture and Society, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of The Japanese and International Economies (3), Nature, Review of Economics of the Household (2), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, PLOS One