Yu Sugisaki
PhD Candidate in Economics, Boston College
PhD Candidate in Economics, Boston College
Contact: sugisaki [at] bc [dot] edu
Education
PhD candidate in Economics, Boston College (August 2022 - Present)
MA in Economics, University of Tokyo (March 2017)
BA in Economics, University of Tokyo (March 2015)
Professional Experiences
Bank of Japan, Economist (April 2017 - August 2022)
Research Interests
Macroeconomics; Monetary Economics; Labor Economics
Working Papers
"Population Aging, Retirement, and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy," Available at SSRN. Submitted.
"Automation and Nominal Rigidities," with Takuji Fueki, Shinnosuke Katsuki, and Ichiro Muto. BOJ-IMES Discussion Paper Series, 2023-E-01. Submitted.
"Discrimination and Segregation Based on Heterogeneous Anonymity in the Voluntarily Separable Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma." Available at SSRN.
"Wage Dynamics in Times of Lower Fertility," work in progress.
Journal Publications
"Monetary Policy Shocks and the Employment of Young, Middle-Aged, and Old Workers," with Fumitaka Nakamura and Nao Sudo. International Journal of Central Banking, forthcoming.
"Assessing monetary policy surprises in Japan by high frequency identification," with Fumitaka Nakamura and Nao Sudo. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 71, 2024.
Other Publications
"The Characteristics of Manufacturing Industries in Tohoku Region (in Japanese)," BOJ Sendai Branch Reports and Research Papers.
Seminar Presentations
2025: Macro lunch seminar (Boston College), Economics PhD Conference (Brown University), The CEBRA 2025 Annual Meeting (Harvard Business School)
2024: The Economics Graduate Student Conference (Washington University in St. Louis)
2021: Macro Money workshop (Hitostubashi University), Annual Spring Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association (online)
2020: BOK/ERI-BOJ/IMES workshop (online), Kansai Macro workshop (online)
2017: Microeconomics workshop (University of Tokyo)