Published Papers
1. "Management Practices and Transaction Relationships " (with Yusuke Imani), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.80, 2026(June) Open Access
2. "The International Empirics of Management" (with MOPS project members from thirteen countries), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Vol.121(45), 2024.
3."The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors" (with Byeongwoo Kang, Rudi Bekkers), Research Policy, Vol.53(10), 2024, Open Access.
4. "Product Innovation, Product Diversification and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization" (with Serguey Braguinsky, Tetsuji Okazaki, Chad Syverson), American Economic Review, Vol. 111(12), 2021, pp.3795-3826(lead article) Online Appendix
5. "Trends in Gender Pay Gaps of Scientists and Engineers in Academia and Industry (with Rajshree Agarwal, Waverly Ding), Nature Biotechnology, Vol.39, 2021, pp.1019-1024.
6. "Management Practices and Productivity in Japan: Evidence from Six Industries in JP MOPS" (with Ryo Kambayashi and Nobuko Hori), Journal of Japanese and International Economies, Vol.61(Sep), 2021. Open Access Online Appendix
7 "Centers of Gravity: The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution" (with Rajshree Agarwal, Serguey Braguinsky), Strategic Management Journal, Vol.41(3), 2020, pp.467-pp.498. Online Appendix
8. "Entrepreneurship and Job Relatedness of Human Capital", Economica, Vol. 38(328), 2015, pp.740-768.
9. "Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry" (with Serguey Braguinsky, Tetsuji Okazaki, Chad Syverson), American Economic Review, Vol. 105(7), 2015, pp.2086-2119. Online Appendix.
11. "Industry or Academia, Basic or Applied? Career Choices and Earnings Trajectories of Scientists" (with Rajshree Agarwal), Management Science, Vol. 59(4), 2013, pp.950-970. Online Appendix.
12. "High-Tech Entrepreneurship" (with Serguey Braguinsky, Steven Klepper), Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 55(4), 2012, pp. 869-890.
13. "Noisy Selection Model and the Evolution of Firm Size and Within-Firm Earnings Distributions: A Unified Approach" (with Serguey Braguinsky), Small Business Economics, Vol. 37(1), 2011, pp. 59-72.
14. "A Theory of Industry Dynamics with Innovation and Imitation" (with Serguey Braguinsky, Salavat Gabdrakhmanov), Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 10(4), 2007, pp. 729-760.
15. "Entrepreneurial Ability and Market Selection in an Infant Industry: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry" (with Serguey Braguinsky, Kevin M. Murphy), Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 7(2), 2004, pp. 354-381.
Working Papers
Work in Progress
1. "Business Expectations, and Forecast Errors in the Interconnected Economy"(with Takuya Hiraiwa)
Other Papers
1. “Understanding U.S. Ethanol Consumption and Its Implications for Policy: A Study of the Impact of State-Level Incentives,” (with Jay P. Kesan), University of Illinois Law Review, 2011, pp.435-474
2. "Productivity and management" (in Japanese) (with R. Kambayashi, T. Kameda, T. Kawamoto, S. Sugihara), Tokei, 2018, pp.20-29.