SHINICHI NISHIYAMA, PhD Assistant Professor of Risk Management and Insurance (404) 413-7475 snishiyama@gsu.edu

Shinichi Nishiyama is an assistant professor of risk management and insurance in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. His research focuses primarily on applications of dynamic general equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents to problems in a household’s risk sharing and social insurance. His work has appeared in widely-recognized journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economic Dynamics.

Before joining the Georgia State faculty, he was a principal analyst of fiscal policy studies at the Congressional Budget Office, United States Congress, specializing in the dynamic macroeconomic analyses of president’s budget and Social Security reform. He received a PhD degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. degree in economics from Keio University in Japan.