Profile

 Name 

• Daichi Shimamoto

Affiliation 

• Kindai University, Faculty of Economics

Address

• 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashiosaka City, Osaka 577-8502, Japan

Position 

• Associate Professor

Contact

• Email: d.shimaomto[at]eco.kindai.ac.jp (replace [at] with @)

Google Scholar: Daichi Shimamoto

Research Interests

• Development Economics 

Education 

• 2009                 Ritsumeikan University

• 2011                 Osaka School of International Public Policy 

• 2014                 Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Ph.D in Economics)

Experience of survey 

•     Firm survey in Indonesia 

•     Firm survey in Northern Vietnam 

•     Survey for farmers in Cambodia 

Academic papers

Publications

• Hiroyuki Yamada, Daichi Shimamoto, and Ayako Wakano, Importance of Informal Training for the Spread of Agricultural Technologies: Farmers as in-Residence Extension Workers and Their Motivation for Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development, Vol. 23(2), Page 124-134, March 2015 (IF:4.082) 

• Daichi Shimamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada, and Martin Gummert, Mobile Phones and Market Information: Evidence from Rural Cambodia, Food Policy,Vol. 57, Page 135-141, Nov 2015(IF:4.189)

• Ayako Wakano, Hiroyuki Yamada, and Daichi Shimamoto, Does the Heterogeneity of Project Implementers Affect the Program Participation of Beneficiaries?: Evidence from Rural Cambodia, Journal of Development Studies, Vol.53, Pages 49-67, 2017 (IF:1.596) 

• Fu Jiangtao, Daichi Shimamoto, and Yasuyuki Todo, Can Firms with Political Connections Borrow Money More Than Those Without? Evidence from firm-level data for Indonesia, Journal of Asian Economics, Vol 52. Page 45-55, 2017 (IF:1.797)

  • Politically connected Leading and Economic Development (with Jiangtao Fu, Yasuyuki Todo), Vox Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists

• Daichi Shimamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada, and Ayako Wakano, The Effects of Risk Preferences on Adoption of Post-Harvest Technology: Evidence from Rural Area in Cambodia, Journal of Development Studies, Vol 54. Page 1819-37, 2018(IF:1.596)

• Kim, Yu Ri, Yasuyuki Todo, Daichi Shimamoto, and Petr Matous, Are seminars on Export Promotion Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial, World Economy, Vol 41, Issue 11, Page 2954-2982, 2018 (IF:0.96) 

• Tadao Hoshino, Daichi Shimamoto and Yasuyuki Todo, Accounting for Heterogeneity in the Network Formation Behavior: With an Application to Vietnamese SMEs. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020 (IF:0.918) 

• Daichi Shimamoto, Yasuyuki Todo, Kim, Yu Ri, and Petr Matous, Identifying and Decomposing Peer Effects on Participation Decisions Using a Randomized Controlled Trials, Empirical Economics (Open access) . 2022 (IF 1.713) 

Book chapter 

• Yasuyuki Todo and Daichi Shimamoto , chapter 5 Economic and Political Networks and Firm Openness: Evidence from Indonesia, pp 97-117, Emerging States at Crossroads edited by Keiichi Tsunekawa, Yasuyuki Todo (Open Access) 

Selected working papers (unpublished) 

• Daichi Shimamoto, Kim, Yu Ri, and Yasuyuki Todo, The Effect of Social Interactions on Exporting Activities: Evidence from Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in rural Vietnam 

• Kei Kawai, Jun Nakabayashi, and Daichi Shimamoto, A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions: Evidence from Indonesia, Mongolia,  Malta and State of California 

Selected works in progress 

• Political Competition and Public Policy: Evidence from Japan (with Shiho Yukawa)

• Tentative title: Natural disaster and migration: evidence from Japan (with Yuzuka Kashiwagi ) 

• Tentative title:  Spillover effect of exporting through network: evidence from Vietnam (with Tadashi Morita, Tien Vu Minh) 

• Tentative title:  Peer effects in side selling; evidence from pepper producers in Cambodia (with Takeshi Aida, Kiyoyasu Tanaka) 

Presentation 

• 2011: Japanese Economic Association Autumn meeting (Tsukuba University) , Applied Econometrics Conference (Hitotsubashi University) 

• 2012:  Trans-Pacific Labor seminar 2012 (Doshisha University), Japanese Economic Association Spring meeting (Hokkaido University), Labor Economic Conference (Osaka University)

• 2014: Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Taiwan), Tokyo Workshop on International Development (University of Tokyo)

• 2015: Japan Association of Political Economy (Waseda University),  Japanese Economic Association Spring meeting (Niigata University), Singapore Economic Association Conference, Seminar at Nagoya City University

• 2016: Southern Political Science Association (Puerto Rico) , International Network for Social Network Analysis, Seminar at Tsukuba University, Econometrics Society Asian Meeting (Doshisha University), Japanese Economic Association Autumn meeting (Waseda University), Applied Econometrics Conference (Osaka University) , 12th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (Delhi） 

• 2017: Seminar at Hitotsubashi University, ASSA Annual Meeting (Poster), Seminar in Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI), Seminar at Musashi University,The 4th Tokyo Network Workshop in Sydney, International Network for Social Network Analysis (Beijing) , Seminar at GRIPS, 2nd Annual Australian Social Network Analysis Conference, Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Inaugural Conference

• 2018: Tokyo Labor Economics workshop, European Trade Study Group (ETSG) 2018 Warsaw 20th Annual Conference, Seminar of Economics of Human Resource Allocation 

• 2019: Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (China)

• 2020: Southern Political Science Association (Puerto Rico), Kansai Labor Economics workshop (Zoom) 

• 2021: Seminar of Economics of Human Resource Allocation (Zoom) 

• 2022: Seminar at Tsukuba University, 17th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (Delhi）

• 2023: Seminar at Waseda University, Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Singapore)

Teaching experience 

For master 

• Development Economics at Tsukuba University/Kindai University 

For undergraduate

• Development Economics at Yokohama City University/Kindai University

• Microeconomics at Kindai University 

• Asian Economy/Eastern South Asian Economy/Japanese Economy at Kindai University 

• Asian Economy at Kobe International University 

Referee

• Asian Economic Journal (2), Agricultural Economics, Food Policy (2), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Review of Development Economics (2), The Developing Economies, Pacific Economic Review, International Journal of Economic Policy Studies