Yasutaka Koike-Moriyasutaka06[at].g.ucla.edu
https://yasutakakoike-mori.com

EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. in Economics• Advisers: Ariel Burstein and David Baqaee• Majors: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Network Economics

California, United States
2019-2025 (expected)

M.A. in Economics

Keio University
B.A. in Economics

2021
Tokyo, Japan
2014

PUBLICATIONS
Publication
2023“Measuring Welfare by Matching Households Across Time.” the Quarterly Journal of Economics, with Ariel Bursteinand David Baqaee, 139, 533–73.

Pre-Doctoral Publication
2015

Hierarchical Bayesian ordered probit model for corporate bond rating (in Japanese). Japanese Association of Financial
Econometric and Engineering, (JAFEE) Journal. February 2015; pp. 114-142.

Working Papers
2023
2023
2018

“A Sufficient Statistics Approach to Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare.” with Ariel Burstein and David Baqaee.
“Inventor Mobility, Knowledge Diffusion, and Growth.” with Toshitaka Maruyama and Koki Okumura.
“The Labor Share, Capital-Labor Substitution, and Factor Augmenting Technologies.” Bank of Japan Working PaperSeries 18-E-20, Bank of Japan with Hirakata Naohisa.

Work in Progress•••

Aggregating Distortion in Networks with Multi-Product Firms (with Antonio Martner)
Production Networks and R&D Misallocation (with Koki Okumura)
Growth Accounting in Distorted Open Economies (with Federico Huneeus and Antonio Martner)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS••2024 (*for scheduled): Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference, Pennsylvania State University;
TDB-CAREE, Hitotsubashi University; 58th Annual Canadian Economics Association Meetings; TIGN conference;
30th CEF Conference (canceled); Global Economic Networks (GEN) Workshop*; Federal Reserve Board*: BSE
Summer Forum*; NBER Summer Institute, Macroeconomics Within and Across Borders*; SEA 94th Annual Meeting(Nominated PhD student)*; Keio University*; Washeda University*; Hitotsubashi University*; Osata University*
Before 2023: Young Economist Symposium, Yale University (2022); 16 th Economics Graduate Student Conference,Washington University in St. Louis (2021): Asian Development Bank Institute (2018); Banque de France, Paris (2017);
Summer Workshop on Economic Theory, Hokkaido University (2018, 2019, 2023)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEBank of JapanTokyo, Japan

Economist, Economic Research Division, Research and Statistics Departments• Developed macroeconomic models for monetary policy meetings.
• Head of the consumption sector of the quarterly economic forecast team.

2016–2019

Economist, Policy Planning Division, Monetary Affairs Department and Kanazawa Branch• Examined the effect of monetary easing for monetary policy meetings.
• Contributed to the regional economic report (analogous to the Fed’s Beige Book) .

2014–2016

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
National Bureau of Economic Research

Massachusetts, United States

Research Assistant for David Baqaee and Ariel Burstein
2022–2024• Welfare and Output with Income Effects and Taste Shocks (Quarterly Journal of Economics , 2022)
o Construction of a price index that recovers welfare for different incomes using Nielsen microdata• Network Barriers, and Trade (Econometrica, 2024)
o Computing of world trade model with intersectoral networks

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Los Angeles

California, United States

Teaching Assistant• Macroeconomic Theory (Saki Bigio), Spring 2024
• Exchange Rate Forecast and Currency Portfolio Choice (Aaron Tornell), Fall 2022
• Econometric Theory (Manu Navjeevan), Summer 2022

AWARDS
Dissertation Fellowship, Federal Reserve Board

2024

Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA

2024

Lewis L. Clark Data Collection Award, UCLA

2024

Doctoral Fellowships, Bank of Japan•

2019–2023

Awarded Bank of Japan’s full long-term scholarship for overseas Ph.D. studies in economics to cover both tuition andliving expenses; awarded to only one or two employees per year

Moriguchi Prize, Institute of Social and Economic Research at Osaka University

2023

REFEREE
The Review of Economics and Statistics

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS••Languages:
Japanese (native), English (fluent; TOEFL 107).
Software:
MATLAB, Dynare, Python and Stata.
o Proficient in using these programming languages to build a wide range of dynamic macro models (from DSGE
and heterogeneous agent models to large-scale macro models like FRBUS)