2023 Professor, GRIPS; Director, Policy Analysis Program, GRIPS
2016 Associate Director of Macroeconomic Policy Program, GRIPS
2013 Associate Professor, GRIPS
2007 Assistant Professor, GRIPS
2017 Visiting Researcher, UCLA
2012 Visiting Scholar, Academia Sinica (summer)
2009 Visiting Scholar, National Taiwan University (summer)
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Economic fluctuations, volatility changes and the role of government spending in China: A structural analysis (with Junsang Lee and Min Zhao), Pacific Economic Review Wiley, 2019
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Population Aging, Health Care and Fiscal Policy Reform: The Challenges for Japan (with Tomoaki Yamada), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley, 2019, 121-2, 547-577
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Demographic Change and Long-term Growth in China: Past Developments and the Future Challenge of Aging (with Pei-Ju Liao and Min Zhao), Review of Development Economics, Wiley, 2018, 22, 928–952
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Tax incentives and foreign direct investment in China (with Junsang Lee, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez & and Yanqing Zhao) Applied Economics Letters, Routledge, 2018, 26:9, 777-780
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The Development of Universal Health Insurance Coverage in Thailand: Challenges of Population Aging and Informal Economy (with Xianguo Huang and Somrasri Yupho), Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, 2015, 145, 227-236 (2014 impact factor: 2.89; 5 year: 3.54)
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Financing National Health Insurance: Challenge of Fast Population Aging (with Pei-Ju Liao), Taiwan Economic Review (Issue of Macroeconomic-Theory and Empirics), 2015 43:2, 145-182
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Health Insurance Reform – The Impact of a Medicare Buy-in (with Gary Hansen and Junsang Lee) , Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, 2014, 45, 315-329
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Optimal Linear and Two-bracket Income Taxes with Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk (with CC Yang), 2013, Journal of Public Economics, 105:6, 58-71.
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Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving – A Structural Analysis, 2013, Review of Economic Dynamics, 16:3, 511-526
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The Provision of Public Universal Health Insurance: Impacts on Private Insurance, Asset Holdings and Welfare (with Junsang Lee), 2013, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 17:6, 1252-1280
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China’s Economic Fluctuations and Consumption Smoothing: Is Consumption More Volatile than Output in China? (with Min Zhao), 2012, China Economic Review, 23:4 ,918–927
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- Other notable activities and achievements
Honors and Awards
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Grant 2017-2020
Nomura Foundation International Exchange Grant 2017-2018
JSPS Research Grant for the Promotion of Joint International Research 2016-2018
GRIPS Policy Research Center Project Grant 2015-2016
JSPS Research Grant 2014-2016
GRIPS Policy Research Center Project Grant 2013-2014
Nomura Foundation International Exchange Grant 2013-2014
JSPS Research Grant 2010-2012
Academic Service
1.Journal Referee:
American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics,
Academia Economic Papers, International Economic Review,
Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
2.Conference organizer:
2008 -- GRIPS International Conference of Macroeconomics and Policy
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