Member of Project
Job Experience
June 1991－August
Lecturer, Dept. of Economics, Osaka University
July 1998－June 2001
Assistant Professor, Competition and Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School
July 2001－July 2009
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Northwestern University
Augast 2009－March 2011
Associate Professor, Insitute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
April 2011－present
Professor, Insitute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Education
March 1989 B.A. in Economics, Dept. of Economics, Kyoto University
March 1991 M.A. in Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
June 1998 Ph.D. in Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Stanford University
Selected Publications
Papers Published in non-refereed Journals
"Child Adoption in Japan, 1948-2008: A Comparative Historical Analysis," Economic Review 61 (4): 342-357, October 2010.
"Top Wage Income in Japan, 1951-2005," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 24 (3): 301-333, September 2010.
"The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics," Review of Economics and Statistics 90 (4): 713-734, November 2008. With Emmanuel Saez.
"Japanese Lifetime Employment: A Century's Perspective," in Institutional Change in Japan, edited by Magnus Blomstrom and Sumner La Croix, New York; Routledge, 2006. With Hiroshi Ono.
"Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach their Implicit Contracts during the Great Depression? Preliminary Findings from Company-level Data," Industrial and Labor Relations Review 59 (1): 51-81, October 2005.
"Implicit Contracts, the Great Depression, and Institutional Change: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Japanese Employment Relations, 1920-1940," Journal of Economic History 63 (3): 625-665 (lead article), September 2003.
"The Evolution of Employment Systems in the U.S. and Japan, 1900-1960," Journal of Economic History 60 (2): 515-519, June 2000.
"Two-Part Marginal Cost Pricing in a Pure Fixed Cost Economy," Journal of Mathematical Economics 26: 363-385, 1996.
