Contemporary Issues in Development Economics
This course covers recent development economics topics, including measuring poverty, health, education, religion and culture, democracy and growth, ethnic and social divisions, general equilibrium effects, and globalization on productivity and labor markets. In each topic, I highlight empirical strategies and causal interpretations.
Foundations of Development Financial Economics
This course aims at equipping the students with the knowledge of modern financial economics that is essential to study the financial aspects of economic development, ranging from individual decision problems to market equilibrium and social welfare.
Topics in Development Finance
This course aims at introducing research topics in financial economics that have relevance to economic development, including issues concerning both the corporate and the household sectors as well as international aspects.
Rural Development Economics / IPADS Economics
In this course students will learn the concepts and methods of impact evaluation based on topics in economic development particularly agricultural technology adoption, rural finance, and market development. Students will also practice quantitative analysis using Stata.
International Rural Development Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ, Ⅴ, Ⅵ, Ⅶ, Ⅷ
These seminar courses aim to make students familiar with up-to-date research topics in agricultural economics and development economics through reading newly published articles in journals such as Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Economics, and so on.
Interdisciplinary Issues in Development Economics
This course covers interdisciplinary research topics in economic development, such as health, gender, non-cognitive skills, community, crime, and natural disasters. In each topic, I will introduce the literature in economics as well as relevant research fields, such as sociology and psychology. This course is for a broad range of students who are interested in international development, including those with no background of economics or quantitative analysis.
Development Economics
This course explores factors necessary for economic development using microeconomics theories and quantitative empirical analyses. We investigate how people make choices based on economic models and examine contemporary topics analyzed in development literature, including agricultural technology, market competition, industrial development and clusters, human capital, impact evaluation, credit access, and externality.
Foundations of Development Economics
This course will cover the micro-foundations of macro- and micro-development economics. Through lectures and homework assignments, students will learn how we can apply modern microeconomic theories and empirical models to analyze a wide range of development issues.
Advanced Development Microeconomics
This lecture course covers the research frontier of development microeconomics by discussing recent papers on selected topics. It is for students who seek research career and are designing their own research.
Development Economics: Microeconomic Approach
This lecture course covers the basic concepts and methods of development microeconomics. It is for a wide range of students who are interested in international development.
Environmental Economics
This lecture course covers the basic concepts and methods of environmental and natural resource economics. Topics include the environment and development. It is for a broad range of students who are interested in the environment and natural resources, including those who have no economics background.
Case study (Development Economics and Policy I)
This seminar course discusses what major insights have recently emerged from experimental approach in development economics and how they matter for development policy. It is for a broad range of students who are interested in international development, including those with no background of economics or quantitative analysis.
Case study (Development Economics and Policy II)
This seminar course discusses what major insights have recently emerged from development economics and how they matter for development policy. It is for a wide range of students who are interested in international development. Case Study II covers both experimental and non-experimental approach in a more advanced way than Case Study I.
Topics in Labor Economics Regarding Firms and Productivity
In this course, we review several important topics in labor economics, mainly focusing on factors affecting labor demand (i.e., firms’ decisions). These topics include the effects of technology changes on labor markets, labor monopsony, the impacts of regulations on wages and working hours, and employment protection. We will also review topics on firm productivity and human resource management.
Development Economics: Macroeconomic Approach
This lecture course covers key policy issues in macro development. First, students are expected to build theoretical foundations through neo-classical growth theory and the new growth theory. Second, students are expected to build empirical foundations through key data analyses for the catch-up process of developing countries. Third, students are expected to recognize various barriers for economic development and effects of removing those barriers, which often lie in the financial system and the labor markets as well as in the social institutions (e.g., family and gender issues).
International Finance I: International Financial Policy
This lecture course covers key policy issues related to international financial system’s roles in two important macroeconomic phenomena, i.e., business cycle and economic growth. This course also covers frequently discussed issues such as monetary union, international reserve, and spillovers of macroeconomic policies to other countries.
International Finance II: Economic Crisis
This lecture course covers key policy issues related to economic crises from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Economic crises can be classified into (1) currency crisis or BOP crisis, (2) sovereign debt crisis, and (3) financial crisis. Students are expected to become familiar with issues that are common, as well as specific to, each type of economic crises.
Case study (Macro-Financial Linkages)
Through this seminar course, students are expected to become capable of reading and writing theoretical and empirical analyses on macro-financial linkages at the level often discussed among international policy experts. This course is in particular suited for those who are writing thesis or research papers. Please also take Case study (Current Global Economic Issues) in S semester before this course, if you are graduating in March after this course.
Case study (Current Global Economic Issues)
Through this seminar course, students are expected to become capable of reading and writing theoretical and empirical analyses on current global economic issues at the level often discussed among international policy experts. This course is in particular suited for those who are writing thesis or research papers. Please also take Case study (Macro-Financial Linkages) in A semester before this course, if you are graduating in summer after this course.