Yuta Saito
Faculty of Economics and Business, Hokkaido University
Kita 9, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0809, Hokkaido, Japan
Email: yutasaito@econ.hokudai.ac.jp
Academic Positions
Nov. 2024–Present. Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Hokkaido University
Apr. 2022–Oct. 2024. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Hokkaido University
Apr. 2019–Mar. 2022. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kobe International University
Education
PhD in Economics. Sophia University. 2020.
MSc in Economics. University of Mannheim. 2018.
MA in Economics. Sophia University. 2014.
BA in Economics. Sophia University. 2012.
Publications
Taxing Platforms with Multi-Homing (joint with Yeming Zhang), Mathematical Social Sciences (2025).
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]
Other Papers
Historical Relationships and International Market Return Predictability: The Role of the UK in the Former British Colonies, Protectorates and Mandates (joint with Takuro Hidaka & Jun Sakamoto), 2023.
A Model of Intergenerational Legislative Bargaining over Redistribution, Kobe International University Review (2021).
A Note on Policy (In)Variance of Risk Aversion, Kobe International University Review (2021).
Essays on Political Economy of Monetary Policy and Capital Taxation, PhD Thesis (2020).