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Yoichi Sugita
Professor
Faculty of Business and Commerce
Keio University
Position
2023/04-present Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University
2020/06-2023/03 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
2015/07-2020/05 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
2014/07-2015/06 Research Fellow, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)
2010/08-2014/06 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
Education
2011/02 Ph.D. Economics (with Distinction), Columbia University
2003/03 M.A. Economics, Hitotsubashi University
2001/03 B. A. Economics, Keio University
Research and Teaching Fields
International trade, industrial organization
Honors
The Oda prize 2022, the Japan Society of International Economics.
Premio Banco Nacional de México de Economía 2015 (Banamex Prize 2015 for the best economics research on the Mexican economy) for “Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers” (with Kensuke Teshima and Enrique Seira)
Publication
Taiji Furusawa, Shoki Kusaka, and Yoichi Sugita. “The Impacts of AI, Robots, and Globalization on Labor Markets: Analysis of a Quantitative General Equilibrium Trade Model.” in Lili Yan Ing and Gene Grossman (eds.), Robots and AI: a New Economic Era, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2022
Yoichi Sugita, Kensuke Teshima, and Enrique Seira. “Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers.” Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics.
Taiji Furusawa and Yoichi Sugita. “The Welfare Effect of Foreign Productivity and Quality Growth: A Quantitative Analysis” the International Economy, (23), 235–261, 2020. (A tribute issue to Professor Makoto Ikema and Professor Michihiro Ohyama).
Jota Ishikawa, Yoshimasa Komoriya and Yoichi Sugita. “Cross-border Technology Licensing and Trade Policy.” the International Economy, (23), 28–50, 2020 (A tribute issue to Professor Makoto Ikema and Professor Michihiro Ohyama).
Paul. S. Segerstrom and Yoichi Sugita. “The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Industrial Productivity” Journal of the European Economic Association, 13 (6): 1167-79, 2015.
Jota Ishikawa, Yoichi Sugita, and Laixun Zhao. “Commercial Policy and Foreign Ownership,” Review of International Economics, 19(2): 300-312, 2011.
Jota Ishikawa, Yoichi Sugita, and Laixun Zhao. “Corporate Control, Foreign Ownership Regulations and Technology Transfer,” Economic Record, 85 (269): 197-209, 2009.
Working Papers
Hiroyuki Kasahara and Yoichi Sugita. “Nonparametric Identification of Production Function, Total Factor Productivity, and Markup from Revenue Data.”
Yi Lu, Yoichi Sugita and Lianming Zhu. “FDI Liberalization and Wage Markdowns.”
Paul S. Segerstrom and Yoichi Sugita. “A Solution to the Melitz-Trefler Puzzle.”HIAS Discussion Papers, HIAS-E-63, 2018, Hitotsubashi University.
Yoichi Sugita, Taiji Furusawa, Amanda Jakobsson and Yohei Yamamoto. “Global Value Chains and Aggregate Income Volatility.” Presented at seminars and conferences.
Grants
2021-2024 (Co-investigator; PI: Hidenori Takahashi: JPSP Kakenhi KIBAN B for “Analysis of the Demand for Tourism with Externality using GPS data”
2020-2024 (Co-investigator; PI: Yan Ma): JPSP Kakenhi KIBAN B for “Globalization and Research and Development”
2019-2023 (Principal Investigator): JPSP Kakenhi KIBAN B for “Growth of Exporting Firms through Trading with Good Buyers.” (17,420,000 Yen)
2017-2021 (Co-investigator; PI: Taiji Furusawa): JPSP Kakenhi KIBAN A for “Global Production Network and Industrial Agglomeration.”
2015-2018 (Principal Investigator, no coinvestigator): JPSP Kakenhi Young A for “Growth of Exporting Firms through Trading with Good Buyers.” (11,800,000 Yen)
2013-2016 (Co-investigator; PI: Kensuke Teshima): Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Major Grant for “Matching and Relationships in Export markets: Empirical Investigations Using the Mexico-US Matched Exporter-Importer Dataset”, UK AID and CEPR.
2010-2013, 2013-14: Browaldhstipendier. Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius foundation and Tore Browaldhs foundation
Conference Presentations
Kobe Workshop on International Trade and FDI, 2021
China meeting of the Econometric Society, 2021
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2021
Third International Workshop 'Market Studies and Spatial Economics, 2021
U. Tokyo Workshop for Global Value Chains, 2019
Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference, 2019
International Workshop on Applied Economics, 2019
Japan Society of International Economic Annual Meeting, 2017, 2019
SAET, 2018
Asia Forum of International Economics, 2018
Hitotsubashi-PKU Economics Workshop, 2016, 2018
Conference on Institutions, Markets, and Market Quality, 2018
Summer Workshop on Economic Theory, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022
Workshop on Trade and FDI at Kobe University, 2017
Sogang University- Hitotsubashi Workshop, 2017
Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and FDI, 2016
APTS, 2016, 2017
Workshop on International Trade in Shanghai, 2016
Japan Society of International Economics Spring Meeting, Gakushuin U, 2016
One day trade workshop, Hitotsubashi, 2016
LSE-Hitotsubashi Trade workshop, London School of Economics, 2015
European Economic Association annual meeting in Mannheim, 2015
Hitotsubashi Summer Institute in Tokyo, 2015, 2018
Third Conference on Institutions, Markets, and Market Quality: IEFS Japan Annual Meeting 2015 in Kyoto
Australian Trade Workshop in Sydney, 2015
AEA meeting in Boston, 2015
Second Conference on Institutions, Markets, and Market Quality: IEFS Japan Annual Meeting 2014 in Kobe
Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS) in Seoul, 2014
Nordic International Trade Seminars in Stockholm, 2014
Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and FDI, 2013
CESifo-Delphi conference, 2013
Royal Economic Society Annual Meeting, 2013
Hitotsubashi GCOE Conference on International Trade and FDI, 2012
Midwest International Trade Conference at Washington University in St Louis, 2012
European Economic Association Annual Meeting at University of Oslo, 2011
Midwest International Trade Conference at University of Wisconsin Madison, 2010
Hitotsubashi COE Conference on International Trade and FDI, 2008
Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting at Tohoku University, 2008
Seminars
Tokyo Keizai University, 2022
Doshisha University, 2019
Chukyo University, 2018
Daitobunka University, 2018
GRIPS, 2018
Osaka University, 2018, 2020
Tokyo University of Science, 2017
Nihon University (NUPRI), 2016
University of Tokyo, 2016, 2017
Tokyo University of Sceince, 2017
Waseda University, 2008 , 2019
Tohoku University, 2013
Kyoto University (KIER), 2013, 2014, 2017
Keio University, 2014, 2017, 2021, 2022
Stockholm University, 2014
Université catholique de Louvain, 2014
Yokohama National University, 2013
Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), 2013
Uppsala University, 2013
Kobe University, 2013
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), 2010, 2013
Bank of Japan, 2010
Boston College, 2010
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2010, 2016
Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2010, 2012
Stockholm School of Economics, 2010
Hitotsubashi University, 2010, 2014, 2015
Professional Services
(1) PhD These Committees
Advisors, Hitotsubashi University
2023, Trang Tran (Placement: University of Tokyo)
Internal examiners, Hitotsubashi University
2015 Hayato Kato (Placement: JSPS post-doctoral fellow)
2015 Tran Lam Anh Doung (Placement: Tsukuba University)
2021 Haitao Cheng (Placement: Hitotsubashi University)
Internal examiners, Stockholm School of Economics
2011 Ignat Stepanok (Placement: Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
2012 Sara Formai (Placement: Bank of Italy)
2013 Amanda Jakobsson (Placement: Singapore Management University)
(2) Refereeing
Canadian Journal of Economics; Development Economies; Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics; International Economic Journal; International Journal of Economics Theory; International Economic Review; Japanese Economic Review; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of International Trade & Economic Development; Journal of Japan and International Economies; Journal of Regional Science; Journal of Mathematical Economics; International Journal of Economic Theory; Review of International Economics; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; World Economy; 経済研究
(3) Conference/workshop organization
Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and FDI: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
SWET (summer workshop of economic theory) trade section 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
WITS (winter international trade seminar) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Hitotsubashi trade and urban workshop: 2023
Teaching
Hitotsubashi University
Basic Seminar (in English)
Basic Seminar (in Japanese)
Advanced International Economics I (PhD level) (in English)
International Economics (Bachelor) (in English)
Basic Microeconomics (Bachelor)
Stockholm School of Economics
International Trade (Master-level)
Median student evaluation in 2012: 7 (in a 1-7 scale)
Thesis in Economics (Bachelor and Master)
Personal
Citizenship Japan
Languages Japanese (native), English (fluent)
Married, Two children