Pseudo Kyotoite, doing likes like I breathe! Tweets (aka posts) & likes are mine. “Pass-through should not be passed-through in a variety of economic analyses!"
Last Friday, Dr. Yu Awaya of U Rochester, a great alumnus of Kyoto U, stopped by our weekly undergrad seminar. The one and only one student of mine, Shota, explained to us the economics of cryptocurrencies. Here at Kyoto U, visiting scholars & undergrad students are super close!
I am humbled to announce that the one and only one senior student of mine, Shota Sasayama, has received the best senior thesis prize (with two other co-winners) awarded by the Econ Dept at Kyoto U. Honestly, I didn’t do anything good to him, but (1/2)
Last Thursday, Dr. Martin Peitz
@peitz_martin
stopped by Kyoto U, and I had the privilege to discuss my current work with him. He was so generous to give me his autograph on two of his books that I’ve learned a lot from. I also enjoyed his talk of ad blocking on the internet!
Yesterday I met Dr. Simon Anderson, who is now visiting Hitotsubashi U, listened to his research talk, and had an individual meeting. He was so kind he gave me a warm message on one of my favorite books. Thanks
@ghngssm
and everyone at Hitotsubashi U for making this possible!
On Tuesday, Dr. Matteo Paradisi
@MatteoParadisi
stopped by Kyoto U and gave a super interesting talk on the causes of the generational wage gap in EU countries (pictured with Takashi Unayama at an izakaya after the seminar). More or less, Japan also has a similar problem...?🤔
Today Dr. David Chan of Stanford U stopped by Kyoto and gave a great talk on productivity and wage differences between nurse practitioners and physicians in the U.S. His research has a lot of implications for Japan as well!
A couple weeks ago I attended Dr David Salant's great talk (here in Kyoto) on the effects of supplier heterogeneity in input auction on the final market. It was also a great opportunity to share some stories on the conjectural variation approach at Rochester back in the 80s!
Last Thursday, I met Prof. Michael Keen
@mick_keen
before his talk at Osaka U, and we discussed one of my current projects. He was so generous that he gave me his autograph on his beautiful book published last year. I also thank Dr. Kazuki Onji
@onjikazuki
for making this happen!
How can differential pricing such as a gender-based discounts be evaluated from society's point of view? In his recently published paper,
@taka_adachi
proposes a “third way” approach based on simple measures called sufficient statistics. Non-tech summary ⬇️
Last week Dr. Elena Capatina of the Australian National University stopped by Kyoto and gave a stimulating talk on dynamic consequences of health shocks on labor income. We also went on an excursion to Fushimi Inari Shrine on the weekend (with Jay Kang
@jaykangecon
)!
Last week, I hosted Dr. Mark Tremblay
@tweetMTrem
at Kyoto U. The one and only student of my undergrad seminar, Shota, joined us for an excursion to Ohara Sanzen-in. Cut and boiled radishes were being offered there. At Kyoto U, overseas scholars & undergrads are super close!
... would like to thank on his behalf the selection committee as well as Drs. Y. Awaya, Y. Iwase, T. Namba, and T. Sogo for listening to his talks occasionally. He starts his new life as a grad student in Tokyo this April. (2/2)
@KatoMasat
As you may know, the punchline of this interesting study states that subsidies to promote entry of self-employment may simply increase the number of shot-lived startups.
@BrianCAlbrecht
Hi Brian, thanks for advertising my work!😀 I especially love this piece of work as (i) I wrote this with a former student of mine, and (ii) this is a piece of work that shows respect to the great tradition of Chicago Price Theory! (1/2)