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

Publications:
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of the Number of Components in Multivariate Mixtures with Katsumi Shimotsu, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series B, forthcoming.  (Supplemental Appendix)
Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence with Beverly Lapham, Journal of International Economics, 2013, 89(2), 297-316.
"Sequential Estimation of Structural Models with a Fixed Point Constraint," with Katsumi Shimotsu, Econometrica, 80(5), 2012, 2303-2319. (Supplemental Appendix)
"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)
"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)

Working Papers:
Testing the Number of Components in Finite Mixture Models (October 2012), with Katsumi Shimotsu. 
Sequential Estimation of Dynamic Programming Models (October 2011), with Katsumi Shimotsu.  
Does an R&D Tax Credit Affect R&D Expenditure? The Japanese R&D Tax Credit Reform in 2003 (January 2013), with Katsumi Shimotsu and Michio Suzuki.   
Technology Adoption Under Relative Factor Price Uncertainty: The Putty-Clay Investment Model.

Courses:


Department of Economics