Kunio Tsuyuhara

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Contact

Business Address

Home Address

  Department of Economics

  2618-565 Sherbourne Street

  University of Toronto

  Toronto, ON M4X 1W7

  150 St. George Street

  Canada

  Toronto, ON M5S 3G7

  Canada

  Phone: (416) 837-8292

  E-mail: kunio.tsuyuhara@utoronto.ca

 

Fields of Interests

·      Macroeconomics, Microeconomic Theory, Labor Economics

 

Education

·     Ph.D. in Economics, University of Toronto (Expected in 2010)


Thesis:   Essays on Dynamic Contracts


Committee:   Shouyong Shi (Supervisor),   Ettore Damiano,   Gueorgui Kambourov

·     M.A. in Economics, Osaka University, Japan, 2005

·     M.A. in Economics, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2003

·     B.A. in Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 2002

·     Summer Student, University of California, Berkeley, 6/2001 - 8/2001

·     Exchange Scholar, Middlebury College, USA, 9/2000 - 5/2001

 

Research

Research Papers

·     Repeated Moral Hazard with Worker Mobility via Directed On-the-Job Search (Job Market Paper)

·     An Advice Game with Reputational and Career Concerns

·     A Welfare Analysis of Child Labour:  Dynamic Implications

Research in Progress

·     Repeated Adverse Selection and Directed Search on the Contract (with Shouyong Shi)

·     Unemployment Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Aggregate Productivity

·     Optimal Retention Strategies for Wage-Tenure Contracts

 

Conference Presentations

Repeated Moral Hazard with Worker Mobility via Directed On-the-Job Search

·     Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting, Istanbul, July 2009

·     Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, Tokyo, August 2009

·     European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Barcelona, August 2009

·     Midwest Theory Conference, Iowa City, May 2009

·     Midwest Macro Conference, Bloomington, IN, May 2009

·     Search Theory Conference, Osaka, February 2009

·     General Equilibrium Theory Workshop in Asia (GETA2009), Tokyo, July 2009

·     Decentralization Conference, Tokyo, August 2009

·     Canadian Economic Association Annual Conference, Toronto, June 2009

·     CIREQ Ph.D. Students' Conference, Montreal, May 2009

A Welfare Analysis of Child Labour: Dynamic Implications

·     The 5th World Congress of the International Health Economic Association, Barcelona, July 2005

·     The 2005 Spring Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association, Kyoto, June 2005

 

Professional Experience

Teaching Assistant

·     Microeconomic Theory I (PhD) University of Toronto, Fall 2008, Fall 2009

·     Macroeconomic Theory II (PhD) University of Toronto, Spring 2008, Spring 2009

·     Macroeconomic Theory I (PhD) University of Toronto, Fall 2008

·     Economic Theory - Micro (MA) University of Toronto, Fall 2007, Fall 2008

·     Economic Theory - Micro (MFE) University of Toronto, Spring 2008, Fall 2008

·     Financial Economics I (MFE) University of Toronto, Fall 2007

·     Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (Undergraduate) University of Toronto, Fall 2009

·     Macroeconomic Theory (Undergraduate) University of Toronto, Summer 2009, Fall 2009

·     Macroeconomic Theory (Undergraduate) University of Toronto, Spring 2008

·     International Trade (Undergraduate) University of Toronto, Summer 2007

·     Intermediate Macroeconomics (Undergraduate) Osaka University, Spring 2005

Research Assistant

·     Professor Ettore Damiano at University of Toronto, Summer 2006

·     Professor Kazuo Mino at Osaka University, Spring 2005

·     Professor Yasushi Ohkusa at Osaka University, Fall 2001 - Summer 2002

Intern

·     IMF Institute at the International Monetary Fund, Summer 2008

 

Honors and Awards

·     Lawrence and Tracey Smith Bursary in Economics, University of Toronto, 2009

·     Doctoral thesis completion grant, University of Toronto, 2009 - 2010

·     Maurice Cody Research Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2008

·     University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship, 2007 - 2009

·     Distinction in Comprehensive Exam, University of Toronto, 2006

·     Japan-IMF Scholarship for Advanced Studies, 2005-2007

·     College Scholar, Middlebury College

·     Exchange Scholarship from Doshisha University to Middlebury College, 2000-2001

 

Professional Affiliations

·     American Economic Association, Canadian Economic Association, Econometric Society

 

References

    Professor Shouyong Shi

(416) 978-4978

shouyong@chass.utoronto.ca

    Professor Ettore Damiano

(416) 946-5821

ettore.damiano@utoronto.ca

    Professor Gueorgui Kambourov

(416) 978-8695

g.kambourov@utoronto.ca

 
 

Last updated: November 9, 2009

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