Vita
Employment
Policy Economist, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), 2023-present
Project Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, 2018-2023
Lecturer, UCLA Department of Economics, 2017-2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, USC Dornsife INET, 2014-2017
Affiliation
Specially appointed fellow, RIETI, 2014-2023
Education
The University of Chicago, PhD in Economics, 2009-2014
Yale University, Visiting Student, 2012-2013
Harvard University, AM in Statistics, 2009
Soka University of America, BA in Liberal Arts, 2007
Research Papers
“Covid-19 and Output in Japan” with Taisuke Nakata, Japanese Economic Review (2021), 72, 609-650
“Indirect Exports and Wholesalers: Evidence from Interfirm Transaction Network Data” with Yukako Ono and Yukiko Saito, Japan and the World Economy (2017) 44, 35-47
“International Trade Dynamics with Sunk Costs and Productivity Shocks” (2022), R&R from the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
“The Impact of Trade on Resource Reallocations with Production Networks” with Kevin Lim (2022)
“Nonlinear Pricing in the Transport Industry and the Gains from Trade” with Han Zheng (2022)
“Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes and Waves of Infection” with Takeshi Ojima and Taisuke Nakata (2022), submitted
“Understanding Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Health and Economic Outcomes uding the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Revealed Preference Approach” with Sohta Kawawaki, Yuta Maeda, Masataka Mori, and Taisuke Nakata (2022), submitted
“Cross-Regional Heterogeneity in Health and Economic Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Japan” with Shotaro Beppu, Hiroyuki Kubota, Kohei Machi, Yuta Maeda, Taisuke Nakata, and Haruki Shibuya (2022), submitted
“The Effects of Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games on COVID-19 in Tokyo: Ex-Ante Analyses” with Asako Chiba, Yuta Maeda, Masataka Mori, Kenichi Nagasawa, Taisuke Nakata, and Wataru Okamoto (2022)
“COVI-19 and Suicide in Japan” with Quentin Batista, Taisuke Nakata, and Takeki Sunakawa (2022), submitted
“Why Do Japanese MNEs Enter and Exit Foreign Markets?” with Ivan Deseatnicov, Konstantin Kucheravyy and Yukiko Saito, RIETI Discussion Paper 20-E-055
“Firm Performance and Asymmetry of Supplier and Customer Relationships” with Yukiko Saito, RIETI Discussion Paper 19-E-032
“International Trade and Domestic Production Network”, RIETI Discussion Paper 17-E-116
“The Dynamics of Interfirm Networks and Firm Growth” with Yukiko Saito and Tatsuro Senga, RIETI Discussion Paper 17-E-110
“Shock Propagations in Business Networks”, RIETI Discussion Paper 16-E-057
“Determinants of Industrial Coagglomeration and Establishment-level Productivity” with Kentaro Nakajima and Yukiko Saito, RIETI Discussion Paper 15-E-077
Reference
Prof. Samuel Kortum (samuel.kortum@yale.edu) at Yale University
Prof. Robert Dekle (dekle@usc.edu) at University of Southern California
Prof. Nancy Stokey (nstokey@uchicago.edu) at University of Chicago
Prof. Robert Lucas (relucas@uchicago.edu) at University of Chicago