Published Papers:
- “Universal Gravity” — Journal of Political Economy (2020), with Treb Allen and Costas Arkolakis
- “An Experiment on a Multi-Period Beauty Contest Game” — Experimental Economics (2025), with Nobuyuki Hanaki
- “Robustly Optimal Voting Rule” — Journal of Economic Theory (2026), with Noriaki Kiguchi and Shinpei Noguchi
Working Papers:
- “The Race between Political Power and Economic Growth: A Political Theory of Capital Taxation” (2026), with Ryo Arawatari and Naoki Takayama
- “Accounting for Japan’s Fertility Decline: Education, Marriage, and Childbearing” (2026), with Naoki Takayama and Takashi Unayama
- “Does Expected Inflation Matter? Evidence from Japanese Value-Added Tax Hikes” (2024), with Naoki Takayama
- “Global Technology Stagnation” (2024), with Naoki Takayama
- “Hidden Stagflation” (2024), with Naoki Takayama
- “Anchoring Inflation Expectation” (2020), with Lawrence Christiano
Papers in Japanese:
- “Trends in Completed Fertility by Educational Attainment in Japan: A New Method for Measuring Demographic Outcomes Using Population Census Microdata” (2026), with Takashi Unayama and Naoki Takayama
“日本の学歴別完結出生率の動向:国勢調査の個票データを用いた人口指標の新たな計測方法” RIETI Discussion Paper 26-J-032. See our paper listed under Working Papers for the expanded analysis written in English. - “Has Intensive Parenting Spread in Japan? A Cohort Analysis of Parental Time and Expenditure on Children” (2026), with Takashi Unayama and Naoki Takayama
“日本で徹底的な子育ては広がったのか:育児時間と育児費用のコーホート分析” RIETI Discussion Paper 26-J-040.
The empirical results of this paper will be subsumed into our paper on a structural analysis of fertility decline.
Works in Progress
- “A Limit on Monetary Policy: Theory and Experimental Evidence”, with Nobuyuki Hanaki and Naoki Takayama
- “Excess Returns of Integrated Government Balance Sheet”
- “The Corporate Saving Glut in Japan”
- “The Real Macroeconomics of Japanese Stagnation”
- “Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry During WW1”
- “The Rise in Markup or the Slowdown of Technology Progress? Evidence from PC Market”
Other Publication
- “A Parsimonious Model for Zero Inflation at the Zero Lower Bound.” Economics Letters 02/2025, Volume 247, with Naoki Takayama
The order of Figures 1 and 2 should be reversed. Refer to this working paper version for clarification.