Research

Working Papers

Nonparametric Identification of Production Function, Total Factor Productivity, and Markup from Revenue Data. (with Hiroyuki Kasahara: First version October 2020) An incomplete draft for the JEA meeting 2023 featuring the demand shock and a semiparametric estimator. 

Wage Markdown and FDI Liberalization (with Yi Lu and Lianming Zhu;March 2020 version; First version December 2016) 

A Solution to the Melitz-Trefler Puzzle (with Paul Segerstrom; January 2018)

Global Value Chains and Aggregate Income Inequality (with Taiji Furusawa, Amanda Jakobsson and Yohei Yamamoto; December 2020)

Selected Publications

Yoichi Sugita, Kensuke Teshima, and Enrique Seira. Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers. Review of Economics and Statistics, 105 (6): 1544–1561, 2023.

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.(Appendix; 2014 March version)

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).