Research
Working Papers
The Role of Advance Notice in Shaping Industrial Response to Time Varying Electricity Prices (with Isogawa and Anai), 2024 (previously, Role of Advance Notice on High-priced Hours: Critical peak pricing on industrial demand RIETI 22-E-068)
Strategic Responses Under Increasing Uncertainty: Flight Cancellation Decisions by Domestic Airlines (with Ko), TCER Working Paper E-196, 2024
Long-run Effect of a Horizontal Merger and Its Remedial Standards (with Fukazawa), RIETI 23-E-001, 2023
Empirical Analysis of the Codeshare Effect on Airline Market Competition and Product Quality (with Ko), RIETI 22-E-080, 2022
Japanese Firms' Markups and Firm-to-firm Transactions (with Nakamura), RIETI 22-E-083, 2022
Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Television under an Energy Efficiency Program (with Amano), 2022 RR in Management Science
Imports, Exports, and the Impact of Mergers on Domestic Markets: A Case Study from Japan's Copper Tube Industry(with Nakamura), RIETI 20-E-013, 2020
Linkage of Markups through Transaction (with Nakamura), RIETI 19-E-107, 2019
Selected Publication
Electric Vehicle Charging Management Using Auction Mechanism for Reducing PV Curtailment in Distribution Systems, (with H. Kikusato, Y. Fujimoto, S. Hanada, D. Isogawa, S. Yoshizawa, Y. Hayashi), IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 11(3):1394-1403, 2020
Market Structure and Product Quality: A Case Study of the 2002 Japanese Airlines Merger (with N. Doi), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 62:158-193, 2019
Price Effects of Target Ratcheting: A Progress Report on Medical Devices, (with D. Isogawa), Japanese Economic Review, 70(3):331-340, 2019
Effects of Consumer Subsidies for Renewable Energy on Industry Growth and Welfare: Japanese Solar Photovoltaic System (with S.Myojo), Journal of Japanese and International Economics, 48:55-67, 2018
The Effects of Domestic Mergers on Exports: A Case Study of the 1998 Korean Automobile Industry, (with Y. Toyama), Journal of International Economics 107:147-64, 2017
Empirical Analysis of the National Treatment Obligation Under the WTO: The Case of Japanese Shochu Liquor (with N. Doi), Journal of Japanese and International Economics, 46: 43-52 , 2017
Treatment of Monopolization in Japan and China (with Lin Ping), in R. Blair and D. Sokol (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics Vol. 2, Ch 9: 188-233, Oxford Univ. Press, 2015
Effects of re-invention on industry growth and productivity: evidence from steel refining technology in Japan, 1957–1968 (with T. Nakamura), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 21(4): 411-26, 2012
Intra-plant diffusion of new technology: Role of productivity in the study of steel refining furnaces (with T. Nakamura), Research Policy, 41(4): 188-233 2011
Competition Policy in Japan (with Steve Harris), in R.I.McEwin (Ed), Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Economics in Asia，Ch 9: 197-216, Hart Publishing, 2011
Did U.S. Safeguard Resuscitate Harley-Davidson in the 1980s? (with T. Kitano) Journal of International Economics, 79(2): 186-97, 2009
Effects of Transparency in Procurement Practices on Bidding Behavior: The Experience of Municipal Public Works Review of Industrial Organization, 34(3): 267-85, 2009
Effects of Technology Adoption on Productivity and Industry Growth (with T. Nakamura) Journal of Industrial Economics, 56(3), 470-4992008
International Consumption Patterns among High-income Countries: Evidence from the OECD data (with István Kónya), Review of International Economics, 15(4): 744-757, 2007
Indirect Network Effects and the Product Cycle: U.S. Video Games, 1994 - 2002 (with Matt Clements) Journal of Industrial Economics, 53(4):515-42, 2005
Learning by Doing, Export Subsidies, and Industry Growth: Japanese Steel in the 1950s and 60s Journal of International Economics 66:297-323, 2005
Choice of Air Cargo Transshipment Airport: An Application to Air Cargo Traffic to/from Northeast Asia (with Tae Oum, Tae-Seung Kim, and Chunyan Yu), Journal of Air Transport Management 11:149-59, 2005
The Role of Network Effects in the U.S. VCR Market, 1978-86 Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 12(4): 447-494 2003 (lead article)
Econometric Analysis of Price Index for Home Video Cassette Recorders in the U.S., 1978-1987 Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 12(2): 179-97 2003 Unpublished Appendix
Anticipatory Effects of Voluntary Export Restraints: A Study of Home Video Cassette Recorders Market, Journal of International Economics, 57(1):83-105 2002 Unpublished Appendix
Other Writings
Policy Challenges for Achieving Carbon Neutrality, Hitachi Review, 72(4), 2023
Stagnation of markups and (non-)existence of superstar firms in Japan (with Tsuyoshi Nakamura) , VoxEU CEPR policy portal, Oct 2020
The 2015 White Paper on International Economy & Trade: Export & Investment, Japan Spotlight, 34(5), Sept/Oct 2015
Energy Mix and Electricity System Reform Going Forward, RIETI Column 307, Mar 2015
Innovation Height and Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis from the Community Innovation Survey (with Daiya Isogawa, and Kohei Nishikawa), KDI Journal of Economic Policy, 37(1), Feb 2015 44-72
Quantitative Policy Analysis of Innovation Activities: Application to Dynamic Structural Estimation (with Daiya Isogawa)，Public Policy Review，9(2), Mar 2013 257-286
Think Hard about Renewable Energy, AJISS-Commentary, Association of Japanese Institutes of Strategic Studies, 133，Oct 2011
Ideal Industrial Structure of Japan's Energy Industry，Japan Spotlight，Japan Economic Foundation, Nov/Dec 2011 37-39
"Comments on 'Forecasting Air Travel with Open Skies' by William Swan" Prepared for the KOTI Conference, Aug 2008
Book Review on "Institution, Industrial Upgrading, and Economic Performance in Japan: Terutomo Ozawa (2005)" Journal of the Japanese and International Economic,22(4), Dec 2008 682-684
How to Measure the Outcome of Innovations: Application to Product Innovations
Prepared for the Global Innovation EcoSystem, Oct 2007"Industrial Policy" Economist Debates (guest comment)，The Economist，14 Jul 2010
Erratum (in figures), Journal of International Economics, 58(2), Dec 2002 493-494
Some Hibernating Work
Assessing the Impact of Renewable Energy Sources: Simulation analysis of the Japanese electricity market (with K. Yohihara), RIETI 17-E-063, 2017
Assessing the Consequences of a Horizontal Merger and its Remedies in a Dynamic Environment (with S. Myojo)，CIRJE-F-609, 2009
How does Ownership Structure Affect the Timing of New Product Introductions? Evidence from the U.S. Video Game Market, CARF-F-026, 2005