Current Research Interests

l Macroeconomics

- Impact of long-run growth on the commitment problem

- Application of global games

l International Economics

- Currency crisis

- Sovereign default

l Japanese Economy

- Modeling of the “Japanese employment system” using dynamic contracts

Working Paper

l The Implications of General and Specific Productivity Growth in a Matching Model (Updated November 12, 2007)

l Short-term Capital Flows and Currency Crisis (Updated Nov 2007)