SHUNSUKE HORI

FACULTY OF ECONOMICSHITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY
Updated on December 29, 2023
CONTACT INFORMATION
Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
2-1 Naka, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo, Japan, 186-8601
Email: s.hori@r.hit-u.ac.jp
Website: https://shunsuke-hori.github.io
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Macroeconomics, Macro LaborEDUCATION
University of California, San Diego
California, U.S.A.

Graduate School of University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Keio University
Tokyo, Japan

Ph.D. in Economics
Committee:
David Lagakos (co-chair)
Valerie A. Ramey (co-chair)
Titan Alon
Alexis Akira Toda
Munseob Lee
Ulrike Schaede(only finished course work)

2017–2023

B.A. in Economics(Summa Cum Laude)

2011–2015

2015–2017

CURRENT POSITIONSAssistant Professor Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University 2023–present
Project Researcher University of Tokyo
2023–present
RELEVANT POSITIONS HELD
Research AssistantResearch AssistantInternLead Developer
Research Assistant

University of Tokyo (Prof. Taisuke Nakata)
UCSD (Prof. Mark Jacobsen)
International Monetary Fund (Alexis Meyer Cirkel)
QuantEcon
University of Tokyo (Prof. Tomohiro Hirano)

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2023
2022
2021
2017
2015–2017

FELLOWSHIP, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Walter P. Heller Memorial Prize. 2020. University of California, San Diego.
Summer 2019 GSA Travel Grant. 2019. University of California, San Diego.
Graduate Student research funding. 2019. University of California, San Diego.
Japan-IMF Scholarship. 2017-2019. Japan IMF Scholarship Program for Advanced Studies.
WORKING PAPERS“The Secular Decline in Aggregate Hours Worked in Japan: A Reinterpretation” (Job MarketPaper)
Abstract: Average hours worked per adult in Japan fell by around one third over thelast half-century. The leading explanation focuses on government policies that distortlabor supply decisions. This paper provides a new interpretation that stresses therole of income effects in preferences. Through the lens of a model of the market andhome sectors and using non-homothetic preferences, I show that the main driver ofJapan’s decline in hours worked is income effects, rather than labor-market distortions
or population aging. The model predicts that average hours of leisure will rise and homeproduction hours will remain roughly constant over the period, which is consistent withevidence from time-use surveys. An alternative calibration based on only labor market
distortions counterfactually predicts that home production hours will rise.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS“Generational war on inflation: Optimal inflation rates for the young and the old” Jointwith Ippei Fujiwara and Yuichiro Waki
“Human capital and Technology Diffusion: Expanding the Discussion of Industrial Policy”
Joint with Alexis Meyer Cirkel“Hysteresis in Hours Worked”
OTHER PROJECTS“Quarantine and Its Scar on Labor” Joint with Asako Chiba and Taisuke Nakata
TEACHING EXPERIENCEAt Hitotsubashi University
Basic Macroeconomics

Fall & Winter 2023

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As a teaching assistant at UC San Diego
Data Analytics for the Social Sciences
Data Analytics for the Social Sciences
Short Run Macroeconomics
Long Run Macroeconomics
Long Run Macroeconomics
Long Run Macroeconomics
Graduate Macroeconomics C
Graduate Macroeconomics B

Prof. David Arnold
Prof. David Arnold
Prof. James Hamilton
Prof. Titan Alon
Prof. Giacomo Rondina
Prof. Titan Alon
Prof. Johannes Wieland
Prof. Giacomo Rondina

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIESPresentations
2023 2023 CIGS Year End Macroeconomics Conference (Tokyo)
2023 25th Annual Macro Conference (Osaka)
2019 Summer Workshop on Economic Theory (Otaru)
Conference Participation
2019 Economics of Artificial Intelligence2014 Summer Workshop on Economic Theory
Referee Service
Review of Economic Dynamics
COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS
Language: Julia, Python, Matlab, R, Stata
OTHER INFORMATION
Citizenship: Japan
Date of birth: May 18th, 1992

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