Sagiri Kitao

Sagiri Kitao (北尾 早霧, Kitao Sagiri, born 1972) is a Japanese economist and professor at University of Tokyo.

Sagiri Kitao
北尾 早霧
Born1972 (age 47–48)
Saitama, Japan
NationalityJapanese
InstitutionKeio University
City University of New York
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
University of Southern California
FieldMacroeconomics
Public policy
Social security
Alma materNew York University (Ph.D. 2007)
Harvard University (M.P.A./I.D. 2001)
Waseda University (B.A. 1996)
Doctoral
advisor		Thomas J. Sargent
Gianluca Violante
AwardsNakahara Prize (2016)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Career

Kitao was born on 1972 , in Saitama, Japan. She graduated from Waseda University in 1996. She worked for Goldman Sachs, originally in the Investment Banking Division, then moved to the Fixed Income Division, before leaving the company in 1999. After working for Goldman Sachs, she returned to school to further her education.

She received M.P.A./I.D. in 2001 (Master in Public Administration/International Development) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Then she went to New York University and graduated with her Ph.D. in 2007 under supervision of Thomas J. Sargent and Gianluca Violante.

After graduating from NYU, Kitao served as an assistant professor at University of Southern California (2007-2009). Then, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an economist, and later as a senior economist until 2011. Kitao then returned to the realm of academia. At the City University of New York, she worked as an associate professor in the Department of Economics (2011-2015). She returned to Japan to become a professor at Keio University (2015-2018). Currently, she works as a professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo. [1]

She was awarded the Nakahara Prize in 2016, became the first woman awarded the prize.[2]

Teaching

Kitao has taught many classes related to Macroeconomics at many renowned University's, including NYU, USC, and the University of Tokyo. At NYU, she taught Macroeconomics and Advanced Macroeconomics in the doctoral program for Economics. At Keio University, in Japan, she instructed courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. The courses were focused around Macroeconomic topics including money, banking, and international economies. At the University of Tokyo, she instructed a course on International finance, at the undergraduate level, and Macroeconomic Models of Heterogenous Agents, at the graduate level. Her instruction has allowed her to teach at many high tier institutions. [3]

Research

Sagiri Kitao has studied many macroeconomic topics. Her research history includes many research topics about Japan. Since 2015, she has published seven papers about different policies that affect Japan. Her most recent research is titled "Policy Uncertainty and Cost of Delaying Reform: The Case of Aging Japan" and was published in the Review of Economic Dynamics in January, 2018. She has published two papers recently with Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Tomoaki Yamada. And in March of 2017, she published "When Do We Start? Pension Reform in Aging Japan" in the Japanese Economic Review, which was based on her Nakahara Prize lecture. This paper discusses how specific reforms could raise the retirement age by three years could help reduce the replacement rate by 20%. She then discusses how delaying from 2020 to 2030 to 2040 can raise tax burden by 8% and lowers the welfare by 3% for future Japanese citizens. [4] [5]


Selected publications
  • Attanasio, Orazio; Kitao, Sagiri; Violante, Giovanni L. (2007). "Global demographic trends and social security reform". Journal of Monetary Economics. 54 (1): 144–198. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.618.8892. doi:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.12.010.
  • Conesa, Juan Carlos; Kitao, Sagiri; Krueger, Dirk (2009). "Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea after All!". American Economic Review. 99 (1): 25–48. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.459.7700. doi:10.1257/aer.99.1.25.
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References
  1. "SAGIRI KITAO : RESUME - sagirikitao".
  2. "The Nakahara Prize Winners". The Japanese Economic Association. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  3. "SAGIRI KITAO : RESUME - sagirikitao".
  4. "SAGIRI KITAO: RESEARCH - sagirikitao".
  5. Kitao, Sagiri (2017). "When do we Start? Pension reform in ageing Japan". The Japanese Economic Review. 68: 26–47. doi:10.1111/jere.12135.
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