IWAMOTO, Yasushi

Articles - 1995-

• “On the Consumption Insurance Effects of Long-term Care Insurance in Japan: Evidence from Micro Household Data,” forthcoming in Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (with Miki Kohara and Makoto Saito)
• “A Reappraisal of the Incidence of Employer Contributions to Social Security in Japan,” forthcoming in Japanese Economic Review (with Junya Hamaaki)
• “Prefunding Health and Long-term Care Insurance,” forthcoming in Public Policy Review (with Tadashi Fukui)
• “International and Intergenerational Aspects of Capital Income Taxation in an Endogenously Growing World Economy,” Review of International Economics, Vol. 16, No. 2, May 2008, pp. 383-399 (with Akihisa Shibata)
• “Policy Options for Financing the Future Health and Long-term Care Costs in Japan,” in Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose eds., Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 415-442 (with Tadashi Fukui)
• “Interactions between Monetary and Fiscal Policy and the Policy Mix,” in The Effectiveness of Stabilization Policies: The Bank of Korea International Conference 2005, Seoul: Bank of Korea, 2005, pp. 149-183
• “Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Escape from a Deflationary Trap,” Bank of Japan Monetary and Economic Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 1-46
• “Issues in Japanese Health Policy and Medical Expenditure,” in Toshiaki Tachibanaki ed., The Economics of Social Security in Japan, Cheltenham: Edward Elger, 2004, pp. 219-232
• “The Fiscal Investment and Loan Program in Transition,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2002, pp. 583-604
• “Do Borders Matter? Evidence from Japanese Regional Net Capital Flows,” International Economic Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, February 2000, pp. 241-269 (with Eric van Wincoop)
• “Foreign Tax Credit and the Current Account,” International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 6, No. 2, May 1999, pp. 131-148 (with Akihisa Shibata)
• “Japan’s Saving Rate is Indeed Lower Than Professor Hayashi Revealed,” Japan and the Word Economy, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 1996, pp. 35-41

Others - 1995-

• “Comment on Razin and Sadka’s ’Privatizing Social Security: A Political-Economy Approach,” Bank of Japan Monetary and Economic Studies, Vol. 22, No. S-1, December 2004, pp. 138-140
• “Shrinking Labor Pool Will Undercut Pensions,” Nikkei Weekly, May 3, 1999
• “Comment on ‘the Yoke of Prior Commitments,’” in C. Eugene Steuerle and Masahiro Kawai eds., The New World Fiscal Order: Implications for Industrialized Nations, The Urban Institute Press, 1996, pp. 164-166

Articles - Selected Publications prior to 1995

• “Endogenous Fertility and Ricardian Hypothesis in a Model with Joy of Giving,” The Development of Science for the Improvement of Human Life: Problems of Industrial Economics Under Environmental and Resource Constraints, Proceedings of the II Kyoto-Siena Symposium, September/October 1993, pp. 23-36 (with Vijit Kunapongkul and Kazuo Nishimura)
• “Public Pensions and an Aging Population,” Review of Social Policy, No. 2, March 1993, pp. 1-10 (with Ryuta Kato and Masahiro Hidaka)
• “Effective Tax Rates and Tobin’s q,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 48, No. 2, July 1992, pp. 225-237
• “Testing for a Unit Root in Japanese GNP,” Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 4, No. 1, May 1992, pp. 17-37 (with Hideyuki Kobayashi)
• “Capital Income Taxation and the Current Account in a Small Open Economy,” Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 1991, pp. 480-496 (with Akihisa Shibata)
• “The Japanese Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital,” Ricerche Economiche, Vol. 45 Nos. 2/3, April/September 1991, pp. 307-327
• “Japanese Corporate Tax Policy and Direct Investment Abroad,” Pacific Economic Papers, No. 196, June 1991
• “Distributional Considerations of Producers’ Profit in a Commodity Tax Design Problem,” Economics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 4, April 1991, pp. 423-428 (with Hideo Konishi)