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Sagiri Kitao
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-6884
skitao@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, New York University; MPA, Harvard University; BA, Waseda Univeristy
Personal Website: 
http://sites.google.com/site/sagirikitao/

Overview

Sagiri Kitao is a macroeconomist who studies taxes, social security, and the effects of demographic trends. Her research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Review of Economic Dynamics. Before beginning her academic career, she worked for Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, and she has held visiting appointments at the University of Tokyo and International Monetary Fund.

Research

Social Security, Benefit Claiming and Labor Force Participation: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Approach • 2012
Labor-dependent Capital Income Taxation That Encourages Work and Saving • 2009
U.S. Tax Policy and Health Insurance Demand: Can a Regressive Policy Improve Welfare? • 2009
Labor Supply Elasticity and Social Security Reform • 2009
Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All! • 2009
Entrepreneurship, Taxation and Capital Investment • 2008
Global Demographic Trends and Social Security Reform • 2007
Quantifying the Effects of the Demographic Transition in Developing Economies • 2006
A Life Cycle Model of Trans-Atlantic Employment Experiences
Financing Medicare: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Short-run Fiscal Policy: Welfare, Redistribution and Aggregate Effects in the Short and Long-run
Tax-Favored Retirement Accounts, Saving and Labor Supply