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Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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OFFICE
HOURS
Wednesdays
1:30-2:30pm or by appointment
FIELDS
OF INTEREST
@International
Trade
@Environmental
Economics, Natural Resource Economics
@Industrial
Organization
@Economic
Effects of Regional Trade Agreements
@Intellectual
Property Rights Protection, Technology Spillovers, and Trade
@Trade and the
Environment/Trade and Renewable Resources
CURRICULUM VITAE
TEACHING
IN 2025
Undergraduate
courses
@Readings in Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics,
English) A-E1 (Fall semester)
@International Trade Policy (Fall semester)
@Advanced Seminar for 3rd and 4th Year Students (Both
Spring and Fall semesters)
@International Economics 1 (Spring semester)
RESEARCH
(1) Impact of Technological
Decoupling between the United States and China on Trade and Welfare (with Shunya Ozawa) RIETI Discussion Paper Series No.
24-E-041 (March 2024).
(2) The Impact of Policy
Uncertainty on Foreign Direct Investment in Services: Evidence from firm-level
data and the role of regional trade agreements (with Mitsuo
INADA) RIETI Discussion Paper Series No. 23-E-021 (March 2023).
PUBLICATIONS
(38) Correlation
aversion in foreign direct investment (with Navruz Khotamov) Finance Research
Letters, 74: 106728 (March 2025). (DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106728) New!
(37) Margins, concentration, and the
performance of firms in international trade: Evidence from Japanese customs
data (with Keiko Ito, Masahiro Endoh, Toshiyuki
Matsuura, Toshihiro Okubo, and Akira Sasahara) Journal of the Japanese and International
Economies 75: 101340 (March 2025). Open access (DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2024.101340)
* This is the first study to investigate Japanfs international trade using Japanese customs data.
(36) Do Deep Regional Trade
Agreements Facilitate International Research Collaboration? (with Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna) Economics of Innovation and New Technology, forthcoming.
(35) Gravity for Cross-border
Licensing and the Impact of Deep Trade Agreements: Theory and Evidence (with
Yukiko Sawada, Xingyuan Zhang, and Shoji Haruna) Canadian Journal of Economics 57(3):
836-869 (August 2024). Open access (DOI:
10.1111/caje.12731)
(34) The Impact of Policy
Uncertainty on Foreign Direct Investment: Micro-Evidence from Japan's
International Investment Agreements (with Mitsuo
INADA) Review of International Economics 32(3): 934-957 (August 2024). Open access (DOI:
10.1111/roie.12710)
(33) Quantifying the Costs of Utilising Regional Trade Agreements (with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul, Toshiyuki Matsuura, and Taiyo Yoshimi) The World Economy 46(12): 3542-3570 (December 2023). Open access (DOI: 10.1111/twec.13472)
(32) Individual Preferences Toward
Inward Foreign Direct Investment: A Survey Experiment (with Ayumu TANAKA and Banri ITO) Journal of
Asian Economics 88: 101644 (October
2023). (DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101644)
(A discussion paper version can be downloaded from here.)
(31) Why Do People Oppose Foreign
Acquisitions? Evidence from Japanese Individual-Level Data (with Banri ITO and Ayumu TANAKA) Japan and the World Economy 66: 101187 (June 2023). (DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2023.101187)
(A discussion paper version can be downloaded from here.)
(30) Deep Integration,
Global Firms, and Technology Spillovers (with Xingyuan
Zhang and Shoji Haruna). Springer (2022). An open access e-book.
(29) What does Regional Economic
Integration Deliver?, The International Economy
24: 1-22 (2021). (DOI: 10.5652/internationaleconomy/ie2020.24.03.nj)
(28) How Does UNESCO's Convention
on Cultural Diversity Affect Trade in Cultural Goods? (with Ayumu Tanaka), Journal of Cultural Economics 44(4):
625-660 (2020) (DOI: 10.1007/s10824-020-09380-6) (A discussion paper version
can be downloaded from here.)
(27) Does
a firm with higher Tobinfs q prefer
foreign direct investment to foreign outsourcing? (with Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna), North American Journal of Economics and Finance 50: 101044 (2019)
(DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2019.101044).
(26) Do
Deeper Regional Trade Agreements Enhance International Technology Spillovers? (with
Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna), The World Economy 42(8): 2326-63 (2019)
(DOI: 10.1111/twec.12797).
(25) Rules of Origin and Technology Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment under International Duopoly (with Yoshihiro Mizoguchi), Japan and the World Economy, 40: 47-60 (2016). DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2016.09.002 (A discussion paper version can be downloaded from here.)
(24) Optimal Rules of Origin with
Asymmetric Compliance Costs under International Duopoly (with Yoshihiro
Mizoguchi), Journal of Industry,
Competition and Trade 16(1): 1-24 (2016) (DOI: 10.1007/s10842-015-0202-z)
(A discussion paper version can be downloaded from here.)
(23) Trade Patterns and International
Technology Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Citations (with Xingyuan
Zhang and Shoji Haruna), Review of World
Economics 151(4): 635-658 (2015) (DOI: 10.1007/s10290-015-0223-z).
(22) International Knowledge Flows and Productivity: Intra- vs. Inter-Industry Spillovers (with Xingyuan Zhang), International Economic Journal, 29(3): 451-474 (2015) (DOI: 10.1080/10168737.2015.1041543).
(21) Comparative Statics for Oligopoly: A Generalized Result, Economics Letters 124: 79-82 (2014) (DOI 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.04.026). (A discussion paper version can be downloaded from here.)
(20) Strategic Investment Subsidies under Asymmetric Oligopoly (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu), Review of Development Economics 18(3): 490-501 (2014).
(19) An Economic Theory of the SPS Agreement. In Mercurio, B. and K.-J. Ni, eds. Science and Technology in International Economics Law: Balancing Competing Interests. Taylor & Francis, pp. 53-72 (2014). (A discussion paper version can be downloaded from here.)
(18) Strategic R&D Policy in a Quality-differentiated Industry with Three Exporting Countries (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu), Japan and the World Economy 28: 132-142 (2013). (A discussion paper version can be downloaded from here.)
(17) Social Dumping and Trade Policy, The International Economy 16: 59-77 (2013).
(16) Is Corporate Environmentalism Good for Domestic Welfare?, Review of International Economics 21(5): 901-911 (2013).
(15) The Effect of Regional Trade Agreements on Technology Spillovers through International Trade. (with Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna) In S. Egashira, ed. Globalism and Regional Economy. Routledge, pp. 49-66 (2013). (A discussion paper version can be downloaded from here.)
(14) Fisheries Subsidies and Management in Open Economies, Marine Resource Economics 27(1): 25-41 (2012).
(13) Factor Market Monopsony and International Duopoly, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 21(2): 271-286 (2012). (DOI: 10.1080/09638191003731278)
(12) Patent Citations, Technology Diffusion, and International Trade: Evidence from Asian Countries (with Shoji Haruna and Xingyuan Zhang), Journal of Economics and Finance 34(4): 365-390 (2010). (DOI 10.1007/s12197-009-9078-2)
(11) Is the Development of Agro-Processing Industry Pro-Poor?: The Case of Thailand
(with Michio Watanabe and Mitsuyo Kurihara), Journal
of Asian Economics 20: 443-455 (2009).
(10) A Note on Strategic Trade
Policy and Endogenous Quality Choice (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu),
Review of International Economics 16(1): 173-185 (2008).
(9) Quality Differentiation,
Welfare, and the Mode of Competition in a Vertically Differentiated Product
Market: A Note (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu), Japanese
Economic Review 58(3): 407-416 (2007).
(8) International Trade and
Renewable Resources under Asymmetries of Resource Abundance and Resource
Management, Environmental and Resource Economics 37(4): 621-642 (2007).
(7)
Tariff Revenue Competition in a Free Trade Area: The Case
of Asymmetric Large Countries (with Taiji Furusawa), Review
of Development Economics 11(2): 300-312 (2007).
(6)
International Trade and Terrestrial Open-access Renewable Resources in a Small Open Economy, Canadian
Journal of Economics 39(3): 790-808 (2006).
(5)
Optimal Policy for Product R&D with Endogenous
Quality Ordering: Asymmetric Duopoly (with Tsuyoshi
Toshimitsu), Australian Economic Papers 45(2): 127-140 (2006).
(4)
Strategic Use of Recycled Content Standards under
International Duopoly (with Keisaku Higashida), Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management 51(2): 242-257 (2006).
(3)
Endogenous Timing in a Vertically Differentiated Duopoly
with Quantity Competition, Hitotsubashi Journal of
Economics 45: 119-127 (2004).
(2)
Minimum Quality Standards under Asymmetric Duopoly with
Endogenous Quality Ordering: A Note (with Tsuyoshi
Toshimitsu), Journal of Regulatory Economics 26(2): 189-199 (2004).
(1)
Strategic Policy for Product R&D with Symmetric Costs,
Canadian Journal of Economics 36(4): 993-1006 (2003).
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Last Updated: April
1, 2025