YOSHIMASA SHIRAI

Office Address
Department of Economics, Keio University
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 108 Japan

Office: +81(3)5427-1350
Email: yshirai@econ.keio.ac.jp

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Primary: Macroeconomics
Secondary: Economics of Information, International Trade

DOCTORAL STUDIES

Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Dissertation: "Essays on Economic Dynamnics and Fluctuations"
Committee Chairperson: Asher Wolinsky
Date of Completion: December 1999

PREDOCTORAL STUDIES

B.A.: Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 1988.
M.A.: Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 1990.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant at Northwestern University:
Economics of States and Local Governments (Prof. Thomas Downes, 1992 winter)
Industrial Economics (Prof. Stephanie Rofgren 1993 fall)
International Trade (Prof. Stehanie Rofgren 1993 winter)
Introduction to Microeconomics (Prof. William Rogerson,1993 spring)
Intermediate Microeconomics (Prof. Ronald Braeutigam, 1994 spring)
Monopoly, Competition and Public Policy (Prof. Asher Wolinsky 1994 winter)
Courses taught at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan):
World Economy (1996 spring and fall, 1997 spring and fall, 1998 spring 1999 spring)
Introduction to Macroeconomics (1998 fall, 1999 fall)
Macroeconomics I (undergraduate and graduate 1999 spring and fall)
Seminar in Economics (junior and senior year undergraduate class, 1996-1999)
Reading English Articles in Economics (junior and senior year undergraduate class, 1996-1997)
Microeconomics Workshop (graduate 1999 spring and fall)
Macroeconomics Workshop (graduate 1999 spring and fall)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Fulbright  Scholarship (1991-93)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo (1991-95)
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo (1996-present)

PUBLISHED PAPERS

"Cyclical Shocks in a Model of Equilibrium Unemployment" Hiroaki Miyamoto and Yoshimasa Shirai,  The Japanese Economic Review,  vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 282-288, 2010.

"Job Flows and Unemployment in an Equilibrium Unemployment Model with Firm-Specific Skill Training" Hiroaki Miyamoto and Yoshimasa Shirai,  The Japanese Economic Review,  vol. 57, no. 4, pp547-561, 2006.

"A New Look at Diamond's Search Model: Stochastic Business Cycles and Equilibrium Selection in Search Equilibrium" Masanao Aoki and Yoshimasa Shirai,  Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol.4 no.4, pp487-505. 2000.

"Entry Deterrence in Unionized Oligopoly" Shingo Ishiguro and Yoshimasa Shirai, The Japanese Economic Review, 49, June 1998.

DISCUSSION PAPERS

"Moral Hazard in Credit Market and Economic Growth" Yoshimasa Shirai, KESDP-No.9906, July 1999, Keio University, Tokyo. (presented at Summer Workshop in Macroeconomics at Northwestern University, July 1999)

"Investment Dynamics with Changing Attitudes toward Risk", Yoshimasa Shirai, KESDP-No.9907, July 1999, Keio University, Tokyo.

"Product Development Cycles", Yoshimasa Shirai, KESDP-No.9908, July 1999, Keio University, Tokyo.

PRESENTATIONS

2000 Oct, ISER seminar(Osaka Univ.), RIEB and IEFS seminar(Kobe Univ.), Macroeconomics Workshop at Osaka.
2000 Sept, The Japanese Economic Association Fall meeting at Osaka Prefecture University
2000 July, IEFS Japan Fifth Meeting, Keio University(Search Equilibrium)
2000 May, Microeconomics and Game Theory Seminar, University of Tsukuba(Moral Hazard)
2000 April, Public Economics Seminar, Keio University (Search Equilibrium)
1999 July, Summer Workshop in Macroeconomics at Northwestern University,(Moral Hazard)
1997 Dec. IEFS Japan 2nd Meeting, Kobe University(Product Development Cycles)
1996 September, Fall Meeting of Japanese Economic Association (Product Development Cycles)
1996 May, Microeconomics Seminar, Tokyo University(Product Development Cycles)

REFERENCES

Professor Asher Wolinsky
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-4415
a-wolinsky@northwestern.edu

Professor Kiminori Matsuyama
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-8490
kmatsu@merle.it.northwestern.edu

Professor Juuso Valimaki
Department of Economics
University of Southampton
Highfield,
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
+44-1703-593263
juuso.valimaki@soton.ac.uk