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)