Hiroyuki Kasahara
Assistant Professor

Mailing Address:
   UBC Department of Economics
   997-1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC
   V6T 1Z1, Canada 
Office Address:  Buchanan Tower 1016
Phone/Fax: 604-822-4814 / 604-822-5915
E-mail: hkasahar@mail.ubc.ca

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Econometrics, International Trade, Macroeconomics

Representative Publications:
"Temporary Increases in Tariffs and Investment: The Chilean Case," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 27(1), 2009, 113-127.
"Nonparametric Identification of Finite Mixture Models of Dynamic Discrete Choices," with Katsumi Shimotsu, Econometrica, 77(1), 2009, 135-175.
"Does the Use of Imported Intermediates Increase Productivity? Plant-level Evidence," with Joel Rodrigue, Journal of Development Economics 87(1), 2008, 106-118.
Supplemental Appendix for Does the Use of Imported Intermediates Increase Productivity?, with Joel Rodrigue.
"Pseudo-likelihood Estimation and Bootstrap Inference for Structural Discrete Markov Decision Models," with Katsumi Shimotsu, Journal of Econometrics, 146(1), 2008, 92-106. (The 2010 Arnold Zellner Award)
Supplemental Appendix for Pseudo-likelihood Estimation and Bootstrap Inference for Structural Discrete Markov Decision Models, with Katsumi Shimotsu.

Working Papers:
Sequential Estimation of Structural Models with a Fixed Point Constraint (November 2009), with Katsumi Shimotsu.
Nonparametric Identification of Multivariate Mixtures (August 2010), with Katsumi Shimotsu.
Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence (March 2007), with Beverly Lapham. 
Technology Adoption Under Relative Factor Price Uncertainty: The Putty-Clay Investment Model.

Courses:


Department of Economics