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About Me
Tomoaki Yamada is a professor of economics at Meiji University. His research focuses on heterogeneity in macroeconomics, consumption and savings, and social security reforms under population aging.
Interests
- Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics
- Economic Inequality
- Consumption and Savings
- Population Ageing
Education
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PhD in Economics
Hitotsubashi University
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MA in Economics
Hitotsubashi University
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BA in Economics
Rikkyo University
📚 My Research
I explores the long-run trend of economic inequality in earnings, income, consumption, and wealth in Japan using microdata and numerical methods based on economic theory. I also studies the short-run relationship among business cycle fluctuations, inequality, and fiscal/monetary policy with dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2025).
Earnings, Income, and Wealth Inequality in Japan: A Long‑term Perspective, 1984–2019.
Japanese Economic Review.
(2025).
Preface to the JER Spesial Issue on Hetergeneity and Mecroeconomics.
Japanese Economic Review.
(2024).
The Time Trend and Life-cycle Profiles of Consumption.
Review of Economics of the Household.
(2021).
Foreign Workers, Skill Premium and Fiscal Sustainability in Japan.
Economic Analysis.
(2019).
Fiscal Sustainability in Japan: What to Tackle.
Journal of the Economics of Aging.