Fellow Researchers Profile
R. Anton Braun
International Senior Fellow
Professor of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Expertise
- Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy, Aging, Monetary Policy
Columns
Working papers, Papers and Reports
Event Reports
May 27, 9:00-16:50 & May 28, 9:30-13:00, 2019
CIGS Conference on Macroeconomic Theory and Policy 2019
June 4, 9:30-17:50 & June 5, 9:30-13:00, 2018
CIGS Conference on Macroeconomic Theory and Policy 2018
May 29, 9:30-17:50 & May 30, 9:15-13:20, 2017
CIGS Conference on Macroeconomic Theory and Policy 2017
June 1, 2016, 15:00 - 16:30
Dr. R. Anton Braun Seminar "Uninsured Risk, Stagnation and Fiscal Policy"
August 19, 2011, 10:00 - 11:30
CIGS Seminar："The implications of a Greying Japan for government policy"
Profile
Education
| 1989 | Carnegie‑Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Ph.D., Economics |
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| 1987 | Carnegie‑Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, M.S., Economics |
| 1983 | Indiana University at South Bend, B.S., Economics |
Career
| 2010 - 2024 | Research Economist and Senior Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia |
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| 2017 - 2019 | Visiting Professor, Keio University |
| 2006 - 2010 | Professor, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan |
| 2008 - 2009 | Visiting Professor, CREA Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Spain |
| 2001 - 2006 | Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan |
| 1998 - 2000 | Associate Professor, International University of Japan, Niigata Japan |
| 1996 - 1997 | Visiting Professor, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid Spain |
| 1996 - 1997 | Visiting Professor, Banco España, C.E.M.F.I, Madrid Spain |
| 1992 - 1997 | Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1989 - 1994 | Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia |
Publications
- “Why Prices Don’t Respond Sooner to a Prospective Sovereign Debt Crisis?”with Tomoyuki Nakajima. Review of Economic Dynamics 29 July 2018.
- “Old, Sick, Alone and Poor: A Welfare Analysis of Old-Age Social Insurance Programs,”with Karen Kopecky and Tatyana Koreshkova, Review of Economic Studies 84 April 2017.
- “Some Unpleasant Properties of Log-Linearized Solutions When the Nominal Interest Rate is Zero,” with Lena Boneva and Yuichiro Waki, Journal of Monetary Economics 84 December 2016.
- “Implications of a Graying Japan for Government Policy,” with Douglas Joines, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 57 August 2015.
- “Generalized Look-Ahead Methods for Computing Stationary Densities” With Huiyu Li and John Stachurski, Forthcoming Mathematics of Operations Research 37(3) August, 2012.
- “Uninsured Countercyclical Risk: An Aggregation Result and Application to Optimal Monetary Policy,” with Tomoyuki Nakajima, Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 10, Issue 6, 1 December 2012, Pages 1450–1474.
- “New Keynesian Dynamics in a Low Interest Rate Environment,” with Lena Körber, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 35 (12) December 2011.
- “The Saving Rate in Japan: Why it Has Fallen and Why it Will Remain Low” with Douglas H. Joines and Daisuke Ikeda, International Economic Review 50 (1) February 2009."
- “Investment Specific Technological Changes in Japan.” With Etsuro Shioji, Seoul Journal of Economics, 20(1) Spring 2007.