Shoki Kusaka

Shoki Kusaka

PhD candidate, Economics — Yale University (expected May 2027)
New Haven, CT

shoki.kusaka@yale.edu · CV (PDF) · Google Scholar

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Yale University. My research areas are international trade, industrial organization, and macroeconomics, with a focus on trade and labor markets in developing countries, spatial economics, market power, and technological change and innovation. I am on the 2026–27 job market.

Research

Research interests: international trade, industrial organization, and macroeconomics

Job Market Paper

Minimum Wage, Trade Policy, and Informality: Evidence from Colombia
(2026)

Working papers

Welfare Gains from Product and Process Innovations: The Case of LCD Panels, 2001–2011
with Mitsuru Igami, Jeff Qiu, and Tuyetanh L. Tran (2025) — Revise & Resubmit, Econometrica
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New Technology Diffusion: Implications for Monopsony Power, Markups, and Labor Share
with Tetsuji Okazaki, Ken Onishi, and Naoki Wakamori (2022) — Revise & Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
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Markdowns and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia, 1977–2020
(2024)
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Work in Progress

Patents as Indicators of Innovation: Large Language Models Meet Ground Truth in the LCD Industry
with Mitsuru Igami, Simon Scheidegger, and Anna Smirnova (2026)

Publications

The Impacts of AI, Robots, and Globalization on Labor Markets: Analysis of a Quantitative General Equilibrium Trade Model
with Taiji Furusawa and Yoichi Sugita (2022) — in Robots and AI: A New Economic Era (Routledge)
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Projecting Prevalence of Frailty and Dementia and the Economic Cost of Care in Japan from 2016 to 2043: a Microsimulation Modelling Study
with Megumi Kasajima et al. (2022) — The Lancet Public Health, 7(5), 458–468
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