Current Research Interests
Search-theoretic analysis of the labor market
Application of global games to the analysis of currency crisis and other macroeconomic issues
Dynamic contract under limited commitment
Labor market and family in Japan
Other topics
Publications
Search-theoretic Analysis of the Labor Market
“Life-cycle Labor Search with Stochastic Match Quality” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel), International Economic Review (2014), 55(2), 575-599.
“A Note on the Life-Cycle Search and Matching Model with Segmented Labor Markets”, Economics Letters (2013), 121(1), 48-52.
“Life-cycle Search, Match Quality and Japan’s Labor Market” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel), Journal of the Japanese and the International Economies (2012), 26(3), 326-350.
Application of Global Games to the Analysis of Currency Crisis
“Speculative Attacks with Multiple Targets”, Economic Theory (2014), 57(1), 89-132.
Dynamic Contract under Limited Commitment
“Optimal Self-financing Microfinance Contracts when Borrowers Have Risk Aversion and Limited Commitment” (with Junsang Lee), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2020), 91, 60-79.
“The Value of Uncertainty under Limited Commitment”, Macroeconomic Dynamics (2015), 19(8), 1715-1748.
Labor Market and Family in Japan
“How do Marital Formation and Dissolution Differ across Employment Statuses? Analysis of Japanese Non-regular Employees” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel), Pacific Economic Review (2022), 27(5), 425-461.
“Empirical Facts on Worker Flows in Japan: Key Features of Flows by Worker Characteristics and the Recent Situation Regarding Regular and Non-regular Employment” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel), The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies (2022), 64(1), 4-13.
“Non-regular Employment over the Life-cycle: Worker Flow Analysis for Japan” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel), Journal of the Japanese and the International Economies (2020), 57, 101088.
“Curse or Blessing: Investigating the Education and Income of Firstborns and Only Boys” (with Xiangcai Meng), Journal of the Japanese and the International Economies (2019), 53, 101036.
Other Topics
“Time Consistency and Counterproductive Monetary Policy Cooperation in a New Keynesian Two-country Model” (with Ngoc Thang Doan), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2022), 54(5), 1491-1523.
“Optimal Macroprudential Policy for the Korean Economy” (with Ko Munakata and Yuki Teranishi), Seoul Journal of Economics (2015), 28(2), 119-141.
Working Papers
“Aggregate and Distributional Effects of `Free' Secondary Schooling in the Developing World” (with David Lagakos and Mitchell VanVuren), NBER Working Paper 31029.
"Non-standard Employment in Japan from the 1980s: Exploration by Age, Gender, Education, and Marital Status" (with Julen Esteban-Pretel), RIETI Discussion Paper Series 25-E-025.
“Non-regular Employment in Japan from the 1980s” (with Julen Esteban-Pretel), GRIPS Discussion Paper 21-01.
“Optimal Policy Analysis in a New Keynesian Economy with Credit Market Search” (with Ko Munakata, Koji Nakamura, and Yuki Teranishi), GRIPS Discussion Paper 16-30.
“Implications of General and Specific Growth in a Labor Market Matching Model”
“Short-term Capital Flows and Currency Crises”
Work in Progress
“Marriage, Fertility, and Female Labor Force Participation in an Aging Economy” (with Minchung Hsu)