"Rising Wealth of Entrepreneurs and Its Implications for Optimal Tax Policies" (with Zhigang Ge)
This paper develops a dynamic contracting model of relationship banking to study how Fintech innovations affect the creation and dissemination of borrower-specic soft information. We treat soft information as a relation-specific intangible asset that enhances firm productivity but is costly for banks to generate. Because information may leak to outside banks, insider banks cannot fully appropriate returns from monitoring, which slows information accumulation and distorts lending relationships. Embedding this mechanism into a macro framework, we show how advances in information processing and sharing reshape bank competition, lending rates, and aggregate outcomes.
"Understanding the Great Recession through the Banking Sector," International Economic Review, 2025.
"Welfare Implications of Bank Capital Requirements under Dynamic Default Decisions," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2022.
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"Room temperature terahertz electro-optic modulation by excitons in carbon nanotubes" T. Ogawa, S. Watanabe, N. Minami, and R. Shimano, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 041111 (2010).
(selected for the August 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Volume 22, Issue 6 (2010), and Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, Volume 9, Issue 8 (2010).)
"Intense terahertz field-Induced electroabsorption in carbon nanotubes" R. Shimano, T. Ogawa, and S. Watanabe, Proceedings of The 35th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and THz Waves (IRMMW-THz 2010).