Fellow Researchers Profile

Shuhei TAKAHASHI

Shuhei TAKAHASHI

Research Fellow

Assistant Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
[Research Themes]
Research on economic theory

Expertise

  • Macroeconomics

Profile

Education

2012 Ph.D., Economics, The Ohio State University
2006 M.A., Economics, University of Tokyo
2004 B.A., Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University

Career

June 2017- present Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
July 2012-May 2017 Assistant Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University

Papers

  • “The Effectiveness of Consumption Taxes and Transfers as Insurance against Idiosyncratic Risk,” (with Tomoyuki Nakajima), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, forthcoming.
  • “The Optimum Quantity of Debt for Japan,” (with Tomoyuki Nakajima), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 46, 17-26, 2017.
  • “State Dependency in Price and Wage Setting,” International Journal of Central Banking, 13 (1), 151-189, 2017.
  • “Heterogeneity and Aggregation: Implications for Labor-Market Fluctuations: Comment,” American Economic Review, 104 (4), 1446-1460, 2014.
  • “Is the Distance to Default a Good Measure in Predicting Bank Failures? A Case Study of Japanese Major Banks,” (with Kimie Harada and Takatoshi Ito), Japan and the World Economy, 27, 70-82, 2013.