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Toshihiko Mukoyama
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🚨The Department of Economics at Georgetown University is pleased to introduce our 2025–2026 Job Market Candidates.

🔗https://econ.georgetown.edu/academics/phd/phd-students/current-job-market-candidates/#

We’ll be sharing highlights of their work and job market papers in this thread.

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October 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Japanese Economic Review Volume 76, Issue 4
October 2025 is the Special Issue in honor of Masahisa Fujita.

Guest Editors: Gilles Duranton (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) and Tomoya Mori (IER, Kyoto University)

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The Japanese Economic Review
The Japanese Economic Review is a scholarly journal that publishes comprehensive economic analysis from researchers worldwide. Publishes theoretical and ...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
As a newly-appointed placement director, I'm happy to introduce our excellent job market candidates from Georgetown Economics @gcer-gu.bsky.social (in the alphabetical order of last name):

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October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Professor Ivana Komunjer on being elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society
@econometric.bsky.social one of the highest distinctions in the field of economics! Since 1931, only 1,254 scholars have received this honor 🧵 [1/3]
October 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Matlab codes for Chapter 10 is (tentatively) at my lecture notes page. We will work on supplementary materials (data, codes, exercises, slides, etc.) later on - we are focusing on finishing the book for the time being. sites.google.com/view/toshimu...
August 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The new version of our first year PhD Macroeconomics textbook is out. It is not polished yet but now all chapters are included. We hope it would be useful for the new semester. phdmacrobook.org/downloads/
Downloads - Macroeconomics
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August 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The third is "Firm entry and exit dynamics in Japan: institutions, policies, and empirical insights" by Miho Takizawa. link.springer.com/article/10.1... The firm dynamics in Japan are notably different in the margin of entry and exit from the United States.
Firm entry and exit dynamics in Japan: institutions, policies, and empirical insights - The Japanese Economic Review
This study comprehensively reviews the distinctive features of firm entry and exit in Japan. As a unique feature of the survey, we focus on how Japan’s unique institutional, cultural, and policy envir...
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April 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The second is "Survey of the effects of unconventional monetary policy in Japan" by Kosuke Aoki and Kozo Ueda. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Japan is well known as the country that started unconventional monetary policy (QE, QQE, forward guidance, yield control, etc.).
Survey of the effects of unconventional monetary policy in Japan - The Japanese Economic Review
This paper surveys empirical studies on the effects of Bank of Japan (BOJ)’s unconventional monetary policy (UMP), with a particular focus on the Quantitative and Qualitative Easing implemented from 2...
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April 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The first is "Macroeconomic facts in the Japanese labor market: survey" by Hiroaki Miyamoto. link.springer.com/article/10.1... There has been a lot of interest in the macro-labor facts for Japan, particularly due to its difference from the US labor market.
Macroeconomic facts in the Japanese labor market: survey - The Japanese Economic Review
This paper documents key macroeconomic facts of Japan’s labor market, focusing on both stock and flow data while reviewing existing literature. Using the latest data, it highlights major trends in the...
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April 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As the editor of the Japanese Economic Review, I've been following the vision that the JER's role as the English-language journal of the Japanese Economic Association is to introduce high-quality work, especially (although not limited to) related to the Japanese economy, to the world.
April 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Call for Proposals on Japanese Economic Review special issue conference "Macroeconomics and Japan's Reality" August 24-25, 2025

Guest Editors: Etsuro Shioji (Chuo University), Jouchi Nakajima (Hitotsubashi University)

Submission deadline: March 28, 2025

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The Japanese Economic Review
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March 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Fourth DC search and matching workshop: April 25-26, 2025. Submission deadline: March 10
February 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Open call for papers, 2025 NBER Summer Institute. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on July 7-25, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on March 20, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/2025-nber-summer-institute
January 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Very interesting new article in The Economic Journal from @elizaforsythe.bsky.social and Russell Weinstein. doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
January 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Hey #EconSky!

The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute @ the Minneapolis Fed has a VISITING SCHOLARS program.

Visits feature many seminars, opportunities to talk econ, and trails for biking/skiing (depending on the season)!

Learn more + apply here: www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/vi...
Apply for the Visiting Scholar Program | Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute
The Institute is currently seeking Visiting Scholars for the 2025-2026 cohort
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December 2, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Japanese Economic Review Special Issue: Call for Proposals on "Macroeconomics and Japan's Reality"

Special issue conference: August 24 and 25 at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

Deadline for proposal: March 28, 2025
December 4, 2024 at 2:25 PM
The 2024 Japanese Economic Review Best Article Award was announced as "The state of mental health among older Chinese and the role of children" by Yi Chen and Hanming Fang. Congratulations!
The Japanese Economic Review
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December 4, 2024 at 2:18 PM
This year, I have one student on the job market from Georgetown: Yanbin (Tracy) Xu yanbinxu.com. She works on macro/spatial economics, and also have papers in development (one is published in World Development). If you have a junior position, she'd be a great hire!
Yanbin
yanbinxu.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:12 PM
University of Tokyo posted a junior opening on JOE. Field: macroeconomics, international economics, money and banking.

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
December 8, 2023 at 5:43 AM
My student Angelica Sanchez-Diaz sites.google.com/view/angelic... is on the job market from Georgetown. She wrote an important JMP on entrepreneurship. Many have observed the US self-employment rate has been declining. She finds incorporated self-employment rate has been rising instead.
November 13, 2023 at 3:31 PM
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For real, the new book is out. Just in time for the holidays. Make sure your kids don’t miss out.
November 1, 2023 at 7:09 PM
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@aeacswep.bsky.social will host Mentoring Breakfasts for Junior Economists at #ASSA2024 on Fri, Jan 5, from 8-10 am CST. Pre-registration is required. For more information, click the link: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co....
American Economic Association
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October 31, 2023 at 6:27 PM
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Spatial JMCs: Each year, I compile a list of spatial-economics job-market papers. To make sure you're on my list (& save me some work), please reply with your info in the following format:

Firstname Surname (School) - JMP title - homepageURL

[Trade JMCs: reply to other tweet]
October 25, 2023 at 6:03 PM
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This you can speed up by adding your site to:
1. Google Scholar
2. RePEc
October 24, 2023 at 6:54 PM
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PhD students: If you will be on the 2024-2025 job market, build your website now.

#econsky
Also important to realize that it is not enough to prepare website for November. Many people will just google a name and it takes time (some effort helps) for your site to climb the Google results.
October 24, 2023 at 5:01 PM