Yuta Saito
Associate Professor of Economics at Hokkaido University
Academic Career
Studied Economics at Sophia University and the University of Mannheim. Received a Ph.D. in 2020. Academic positions at Hokkaido University (since 2022) and Kobe International University (2019–2022).
Research Fields
Public Economics; Macroeconomics; Social Choice
Research Projects
[Current] Paternalistic Optimal Taxation; Non-Welfarist Social Evaluation
[Previous] Platform Taxation; Monetary Policy Committee Design; Currency Union Design; Capital Taxation; Bequests; Asset Pricing; Legislative Bargaining
Working Papers & Work in Progress
The Irrelevance of Targeted Paternalism in Pareto Efficient Income Taxation (2025). [PDF]
Non-Paternalistic Replication of Paternalistic Social Welfare Functions (joint with Kenzo Ichikawa)
Publications
Taxing Platforms with Multi-Homing (joint with Yeming Zhang). Mathematical Social Sciences (2026). [WP Version]
Exit Expectations and the Optimal Design of a Currency Union. Economics Letters (2025). [WP Version]
Expectations for the MPC Chair and Interest Rate Persistence. Mathematical Social Sciences (2024). [Open Access]
Capital Taxation with Parental Incentives (joint with Yosuke Takeda). Journal of Public Economic Theory (2022). [WP Version]
A Note on Time Inconsistency and Endogenous Exits From a Currency Union. Games (2022). [Open Access]
The Role of Vaccination in a Model of Asset Pricing During a Pandemic. PLoS ONE (2022). [Open Access]
Parental Transfers Under Ambiguity. Applied Economics Letters (2022). [WP Version]
Asset Pricing During Pandemic Lockdown (joint with Jun Sakamoto). Research in International Business and Finance (2021). [Open Access]
Political Representation and Legislative Bargaining over Redistribution. International Advances in Economic Research (2019). [WP Version]
Bargaining over Monetary Policy and Optimal Committee Composition in a Currency Union. Economics Bulletin (2018). [Open Access]
Contact
Yuta Saito
Faculty of Economics and Business
Hokkaido University
Kita 9, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0809
Hokkaido, Japan