Publications:

• "An Application of Business Cycle Accounting with Misspecified Wedges" (joint with Masaru Inaba)
  forthcoming in Review of Economic Dynamics
  


• "Nominal Rigidities, News-Driven Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy" (joint with Keiichiro Kobayashi)
  The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Vol.10, Issue 1 (Contributions), Article 24, pp. 1-24, 2010.


• "Internal and External Habits and News-Driven Business Cycles"
  Economics Letters Vol.107, Issue 2, pp. 300-303, 2010.


• "The Role of Investment Wedges in the Carlstrom-Fuerst Economy and Business Cycle Accounting" (joint with Masaru Inaba)
  Economics Letters Vol.105, Issue 3, pp.200-203, 2009.
  


• "Structural Changes and Economic Growth: Evidence from Japan"
  Economics Bulletin Vol.15 No.9, pp.1-11, 2008.
  


• "Collateralized Capital and News-Driven Cycles" (joint with Keiichiro Kobayashi)
  Economics Bulletin Vol.5 No.17, pp.1-9, 2007.
  
  

Working Papers:

• "Do Credit Market Imperfections Justify a Central Bank's Response to Asset Price Fluctuations?"
  Latest version: December 2011
  


• "Type of Assets Matters for Equilibrium Determinacy When a Central Bank Responds to Asset Price Fluctuations"
  Latest version: December 2011
  


• "Asset Prices, Nominal Rigidities, and Monetary Policy: Role of Price Indexation"
  Latest version: February 2011
  [draft]


• "Asset Prices and Monetary Policy in a Sticky-Price Economy with Financial Frictions"
  Latest version: April 2010
  [draft]
  


• "Credit, Externalities, and Non-Optimality of the Friedman Rule" (joint with Keiichiro Kobayashi and Masaru Inaba)
  Latest version: March 2010
  [draft]
  


• "Nominal Rigidities and News-Driven Business Cycles in a Medium-Scale DSGE Economy"
  Latest version: July 2009
  [draft]
  


• "On Equivalence Results in Business Cycle Accounting" (joint with Masaru Inaba)
  Latest version: October 2008
  [draft]
  


• "Asset Pricing Accounting"
  Latest version: April 2007
  


• "The Short-Run Effect of Technology Shocks: A Solow-Hall Approach"
  Latest version: May 2006
  

Program Codes

• "News-Shock Subroutine for Prof. Uhlig's Toolkit"
  Latest version: October 23, 2007
  [manual / subroutine file / zip file of set with examples]

Theses

• News, Productivity, and Business Cycle Fluctuations
  September, 2008
  Ph.D. dissertation. University of Tokyo
  


• The Short-Run Effect of Technology Shocks: A Solow-Hall Approach
  January, 2006
  M.A. thesis. University of Tokyo
  


• Did Low Productivity Growth Cause Japan's Lost Decade?
  January, 2004
  B.A. thesis. University of Tokyo

Referee Service:

Japan and the World Economy; Japanese Economic Review; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Macroeconomic Dynamics;