京都大学 大学院経済学研究科・経済学部

Shinichi NISHIYAMA

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Basic Information

• Academic Degrees:

  Ph.D. Economics (University of Pennsylvania)

• Courses in charge:

  
  

  [Undergraduate] Intermediate Macroeconomics (or Macroeconomics 2)

  
  

  [Graduate] Financial Applied Macroeconomic Analysis

• Fields of Research:

  Macroeconomics, Public Finance

• Keywords:

  Tax Policy, Social Insurance, Economic Inequality

Selected Publications

• “The Joint Labor Supply Decision of Married Couples and the U.S. Social Security Pension System,” Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming, 2018.
• “Fiscal Policy Effects in a Heterogeneous-Agent OLG Economy with an Aging Population,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 61, pp. 114-132, December 2015.
• ““Financing Old Age Dependency,” (with Kent Smetters) Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 6, pp. 53-76, 2014.
• “The Budgetary and Welfare Effects of Tax-Deferred Retirement Saving Accounts,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 95, Nos. 11-12, pp. 1561-1578, December 2011.
• “Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?” (with Kent Smetters) Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 122, No. 4, pp. 1677-1719, November 2007.
• “Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency with Idiosyncratic Wage Shocks,” (with Kent Smetters) Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 113, No. 5, pp. 1088-1115, October 2005.
• “Bequests, Inter Vivos Transfers, and Wealth Distribution,” Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 892-931, October 2002.

Membership of Professional Organizations

• American Economic Association
• Econometric Society

Contact Information

Office: Law and Economics East 812
Tel: 075-753-3439
E-mail: nishiyama*econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp (replace * with @)