Kenjiro Hori

Lecturer in Economics
MA, MPhil, PhD ( Cambridge)

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7631 6424
Email: k.hori@bbk.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7631 6416
Room: 728
Office Hours: email for appointment

Ken Hori

Research Interests

• Search Theory, Labour Economics, Theory of Firm, Contract Theory

Publications

• "Directed Search, Rationing and Wage Dispersion", April 2009, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 9: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 11 Download
  (Originally circulated as "Wage-Directed Job match with Multiple Applications and Multiple Vacancies: The Optimal Job Application Strategy and Wage Dispersion", Birkbeck Working Paper 0711)
• "Report on the Cost of Capital", September 2006, Smithers & Co. Ltd. report provided to Ofgem, co-authored with S. Wright, R. Mason, S. Satchell and M. Baskaya

Working Papers

• "Multiple Applications Matching Function: An Alternative", Birkbeck Working Paper 0706, 2007, pdf
• "Profit-Sharing as the Optimal Wage Contract", Birkbeck Working Paper 0601, 2006, pdf
• "Directed-Job Match with Heterogeneity", revised version August 2007, pdf
  (Originally circulated as "Job Matching with Multiple-Hiring Firms and Heterogeneous Workers: A Microfoundation", Birkbeck Working Paper 0514)

Research in Progress

• Optimal Wage Contracts under Multiple Uncertainties, 2005

Teaching

• MSc Economics, Economic Theory and Applications I, (Autumn 2009)
• Graduate Diploma in Finance / Financial Engineering, Financial Markets, (Spring 2010)
• MSc Economics / Finance, September Maths, (Sep 2009)
• BSc(Econ) Financial Economics, Introduction to Economics, (2004-6)

Interests

• Karate (4th Dan JKA), Oasis, CUKC

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