Ryo Horii 堀井　亮

Associate Professor

Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University
27-1 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576, Japan

Tel/Fax: +81-(0)22-795-4272
E-mail: horii econ.jpn.org

Lectures

Seminar (full year) Mondays 14:40PM- syllabus, Free trade under fire, Selected Papers from Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Macroeconomic Analysis (fall) Blanchard Macroeconomics 5th ed.

Population economics (Spring) Mondays 1:00PM- syllabus, Lee(2003)JEP; Acemoglu and Johnson (2007)JPE (appendix); Becker, Murphy and Tamura (1990)JPE; Doepke (2005) JPopE.
Applied Macro Workshop (full-year) Fridays 2:40- syllabus. Kremer (1993)QJE; Hu and Shimomura (2011); Acemoglu, Gancia, and Zilibotti (2011JET); Golosov, Hassler, Krusell, and Tsyvinski, "Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium"mimeo; Galor and Weil (2000) AER; Arnold and Bauer (2009) JofEcon

February 11-12, 2012. 成長論ワークショップ (Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University), Timing of Childbirth, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Welfare (joint presentation with Akira Momota).
November 22, 2011. 共同利用・共同研究拠点プロジェクト研究カンファレンス「不確実性とマクロ経済」(Kyoto University), Natural Disasters in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth: An Extension to Non-Insurable Risks.
November 12, 2011. Policy Modelling Workshop (GRIPS), Natural Disasters in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth: An Extension to Non-Insurable Risks.
November 11, 2011. Kansai Macro Workshop, Natural Disasters in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth: An Extension to Non-Insurable Risks.
November 8 (rescheduled), 2011. 明治大学経済学ワークショップ (Meiji university), Natural Disasters in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth: An Extension to Non-Insurable Risks.

"Timing of Childbirth, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Welfare,"Forthcoming in Oxford Economic Papers (with Akira Momota)
" Financial infrastructure, technological shift, and inequality in economic development," Forthcoming in Macroeconomic Dynamics (with Ryoji Ohdoi & Kazuhiro Yamamoto) Proof of Propositions 3 and 4.
"Dual Poverty Trap: Intra- and Intergenerational Linkages in Frictional Labor Markets," Forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic Theory (with Masaru Sasaki).
"Wants and Past Knowledge: Growth Cycles with Emerging Industries," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 36(2), Pages 220-238, February 2012.
"Availability of Higher Education and Long-Term Economic Growth," Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 59(2), pages 156-177, June 2008. (with Akiomi Kitagawa and Koichi Futagami). Additional Appendix (proofs of propositions).
"Wealth Heterogeneity and Escape from the Poverty-Environment Trap," Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 9(6), pages 1041-1068, December 2007. (with Masako Ikefuji)
"Economic Growth with Imperfect Protection of Intellectual Property Rights," Journal of Economics, vol. 90(1), pages 45-85, January 2007 (with Tatsuro Iwaisako) Additional appendix.
"Investment efficiency and intergenerational income distribution: a paradoxical result," Economics Bulletin, vol. 15(2), pages 1-6, 2004 (with Akiomi Kitagawa and Koichi Futagami)

"Natural Disasters in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth," Working Papers 992, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, revised 2010 (with Masako Ikefuji).
"Information Cycles and Depression in a Stochastic Money-in-Utility Model," MPRA Paper 13485, University Library of Munich, Revised February 2009 (with Yoshiyasu Ono)
"Endogenous Growth and Cycles with a Continuum of Technologies," ISER Discussion Paper, Number 560, 2001
"Non-exponential Theory of Sustained Growth." in preparation.
"Fashion Cycles as an Engine of Growth." in preparation.