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Kenjiro Hori

Lecturer in Economics /
Programme Director BSc Financial Economics with Accounting
MA, MPhil, PhD (Cambridge)
Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan (CMA)

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

  • Two-Rounded Job Matching, 2010
  • Heterogeneity in Matching with Correlated Preferences, 2010
  • Optimal Wage Contracts under Multiple Uncertainties, 2005

Teaching

  • MSc Economics / Financial Economics, Microeconomics, (Autumn 2010)
  • Graduate Diploma in Finance / Financial Engineering, Financial Markets, (Spring 2011)
  • MSc Economics / Financial Economics, September Maths, (Sep 2010)
  • BSc(Econ) Financial Economics, Introduction to Economics, (2004-6)

Interests

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Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX.