Hiroyuki Kasahara

Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia

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I am a Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.

Research Interests

My research focuses on econometrics, empirical IO, and international trade. My methodological work develops tools for estimation and inference in dynamic discrete choice models, finite mixture models, and regime switching models. My applied work examines topics including trade policy, productivity, COVID-19 policy impacts, and the causes of historical famines.

Software

  • ak — R package for event-study designs with discrete outcomes, using transition independence in place of parallel trends.
  • claude-code-skills — Claude Code skills for research workflows: delegate heavy tasks to the Codex and Antigravity CLIs, and convert PDFs to clean Markdown.

Contact

CV

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selected publications

  1. PNAS
    The Association of Opening K-12 Schools with the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States: County-Level Panel Data Analysis
    Victor Chernozhukov, Hiroyuki Kasahara, and Paul Schrimpf
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
    DOI
  2. JASA
    Testing the Number of Components in Normal Mixture Regression Models
    Hiroyuki Kasahara and Katsumi Shimotsu
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2015
    DOI
  3. ECMA
    Sequential Estimation of Structural Models with a Fixed Point Constraint
    Hiroyuki Kasahara and Katsumi Shimotsu
    Econometrica, 2012
    DOI
  4. ECMA
    Nonparametric Identification of Finite Mixture Models of Dynamic Discrete Choices
    Hiroyuki Kasahara and Katsumi Shimotsu
    Econometrica, 2009
    DOI
  5. JDE
    Does the Use of Imported Intermediates Increase Productivity? Plant-Level Evidence
    Hiroyuki Kasahara and Joel Rodrigue
    Journal of Development Economics, 2008
    Awarded DOI