Degrees

• Ph.D. (State University of New York, Buffalo, NY)
• Dissertation Title: Essays on Monetary Trade, Inernational Trade, and Slave Trade (Accepted in September 1, 2011)
• Advisors: Professors Winston Chang (Buffalo), Isaac Ehrlich (Buffalo), Robert Margo (Boston), and Peter Morgan (Buffalo)
• M. Econ. (Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan)
• B.B.A. (Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan)

Position(s) held

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Lehigh University (August 2011-present)

Areas of expertise

• Macro/monetary economics
• International economics
• Economics of slavery (cliometrics)

Courses taught

• Money, banking & financial markets (Lehigh, Fall 2011 & Spring 2012)
• The Japanese economy (Lehigh, Fall 2011)
• Intermediate macroeconomics (Lehigh, Spring 2012)

Personal information

• Gender: Male
• Citizenship: Japan
• Visa status: F1 (OPT)
• Language: Japanese and English

Contact information

Departmemt of Economics
Lehigh University
612 Taylor Street
Rauch Business Center (Room 306)
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA
Phone: +1 (610) 758 4010
E-mail: tsaito [at] lehigh [dot] edu (∗ please ask me for the detailed latest CV)

Publications

1. Saito, Tetsuya (2011) How Do We Get Cobb-Douglas and Leontief Functions from CES Function: A Lecture Note on Discrete and Continuum Differentiated Object Models. Journal of Industrial Organization Education, forthcoming.
2. Ehrlich, Isaac and Tetsuya Saito (2010) Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime: An Application of the “Market for Offenses Model”. Journal of Policy Modeling, 5(3), 670-89. [NBER Working Papper No.16009]
3. Saito, Tetsuya (2008) An Expository Note on Alchian-Allen Theorem When Sub-Utility Functions are Homogeneous of Degree n > 0 with Two-Stage Budgeting. Economics Bulletin, 6(30), 1-12.

Paper(s) under revision

1. Saito, Tetsuya (2010) Evolutions of Traveling Time and Tonnage in Antebellum Sailing Vessels: Evidence from Slave Transportation from Baltimore to New Orleans, 1818-1856. (Revision requested from the Social Science Quarterly, and currently jointly revising with Professor Margo.)

Unpublished papers (selected)

1. Saito, Tetsuya (2011). Toward a Search-Theoretic Approach of Modern Economic Development, Financial Deepening, and Urbanization: A Cross-Country Perspective. (Presenting at FRB-Atlanta and Penn)
2. Chang, Winston W. and Tetsuya Saito (2011). A Symmetric Model of Formations of Free Trade Zones: Revisiting the Bond-Syropoulos-Krugman Model. (Preparing for submission to the Economic Theory)
3. Saito, Tetsuya (2010). Economics of Crime for Economics of Trade Dispute and of the World Trade Organization.
4. Saito, Tetsuya (2010). Explaining the Existence and Evolution of Slave Price Differentials in New Orleans, 1804-1860. (Rewriting with Professor Margo)

Other works

• Wolfram Demonstrations Project (published Mathematica scripts)
1. Farkas's Lemma in Two Dimensions
2. Theoretical Model: Condorcet's Jury Theorem, Part 1
3. Vote for Justice: Condorcet's Jury Theorem, Part 2
4. Convergence of Probability I: Condorcet's Jury Theorem, Part 3
5. Convergence of Probability II: Condorcet's Jury Theorem, Part 4

Current research interests

1. Financial deepening and modern economic growth, especially focusing on urbanization
2. Multi-currency system in a third-generation money-search framework
3. Divisible money in a la second-generation money-search framework
4. US economic history (slavery, banking, transportation, regional trade, etc.)
5. Trade liberalization
6. Crime, especially counterfeiting money