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