Published Papers

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Journal Articles

• Global Warming and Border Carbon Adjustments (with Sungwan Hong, Seung-Gyu Sim, and Yoshitaka Tsuruta), Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 13(2), 2022, pp. 195-208. [Abstract at De Gruyter] 

• Technological advancement, import penetration and labour markets: Evidence from Thailand (with Juthathip Jongwanich and Archanun Kohpaiboon), World Development, 151, 2022, 105746. [Abstract at ScienceDirect] [DP version]

• International Production Networks Are Overcoming COVID-19 Shocks: Evidence from Japan's Machinery Trade (with Mitsuyo Ando and Fukunari Kimura), Asian Economic Papers, 20(3), 2021, pp. 40-72. [Abstract at MIT Press Journals]

• Impacts of Additional Compliance Requirements of Regulations on the Margins of Trade (with Kaoru Nabeshima and Kunhyui Kim), Japan and the World Economy, 59, 2021, 101088. [Abstract at ScienceDirect]

• Centrality in Global Value Chains and the Regulatory Distance from Global Standards (with Tomohiko Inui, Kenta Ikeuchi, and Qizhong Yang), International Economics, 166, 2021, pp. 95-115. [Abstract at ScienceDirect]

• New Developments in International Production Networks: Impact of Digital Technologies (with Fukunari Kimura), Asian Economic Journal, 35(2), 2021, pp. 115-141. [Abstract at Wiley] [DP version]

• Robotics Technology and Firm-level Employment Adjustment in Japan (with Bin Ni), Japan and the World Economy, 57, 2021, 101054. [Abstract at ScienceDirect] [DP version]

• Impact of Regulatory Burdens on International Trade (with Kaoru Nabeshima), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 59, 2021, 101120. [Abstract at ScienceDirect] [DP version]

• Is Environmental Tax Harmonization Desirable in Global Value Chains? (with Haitao Cheng and Hayato Kato), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 21(1), 2021, pp. 379-416. [Download] 

• Expansion and Deepening of Production Networks, Public Policy Review, 16(1), 2020, pp. 17-46. [Download]  

• Trade Agreements with Cross-Border Unbundling, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 53, 2019, 101033. [Abstract at ScienceDirect] 

• Are Production Networks Passé in East Asia? Not Yet (with Fukunari Kimura), Asian Economic Papers, 17(3), 2018, pp. 86-107. [Abstract at MIT Press Journals] [DP version]

• Deepening and Widening of Production Networks in ASEAN (with Fukunari Kimura), Asian Economic Papers, 16(1), 2017, pp. 1-27. [Download] [DP version]

• The Role of China, Japan, and Korea in Machinery Production Networks (with Fukunari Kimura), International Economic Journal, 30(2), 2016, pp. 169-190. [Abstract at Taylor & Francis Online] [DP version]

• A Two-dimensional Analysis of the Impact of Outward FDI on Performance at Home: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms (with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Toshiyuki Matsuura, and Kazuyuki Motohashi), Japan and the World Economy, 27, 2013, pp. 25-33. [Abstract at ScienceDirect] [DP version]

• Spatial Distribution of Industrial Production: A Comparison of East Asia and Europe (with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Zheng Ji), The Developing Economies, 49(4), 2011, pp. 363-381. [Abstract at Wiley] [DP version]

• Stability of International Production Networks: Is East Asia Special?, International Journal of Business and Development Studies, 2(1), 2010, pp. 63-94. [Download]

• Stability of Production Networks in East Asia: Duration and Survival of Trade, Japan and the World Economy, 22(1), 2010, pp. 21-30. [Abstract at ScienceDirect] [DP version]

Book Chapters

• Trade in Goods with Internationalised Production Activities (with Toshiyuki Matsuura), in Handbook on East Asian Economic Integration, edited by F. Kimura, M. Pangestu, S. Thangavelu, and C. Findlay, 2021, pp. 66-87, Edward-Elgar, Cheltenham.

• Non-Tariff Measures in Japan (with Kaoru Nabeshima), in  Non-Tariff Measures in Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Findings, edited by D. Penello Rial and M. R. Anandhika, 2020, pp. 45-54, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

• Production Networks in East Asia: What We Know So Far (with Fukunari Kimura), in Production Networks and Enterprises in East Asia: Industry and Firm-level Analysis (ADB Institute Series on Development Economics), edited by G. Wignaraja, 2015, pp. 33-64, Springer Japan. [WP version]

• Resiliency of Production Networks in Asia: Evidence from the Asian Crisis, in Trade-led Growth: A Sound Strategy for Asia, edited by S. J. Evenett, M. Mikic, and R. Ratnayake, 2011, pp. 29-52, United Nations Publication. [Download] [DP version]

• Development and Current Status of Machinery Trade between ASEAN and India, in ASEAN-India Connectivity: The Comprehensive Asia Development Plan, Phase II, ERIA Research Project Report 2010-7, edited by F. Kimura and S. Umezaki, 2011, pp. 57-94, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). [Download]

• The Pervasiveness of Non-tariff Measures in ASEAN – Evidences from the Inventory Approach (with Mitsuyo Ando), in Rising Non-tariff Protectionism and Crisis Recovery, edited by M. Mikic and M. Wermelinger, 2010, pp. 27-55, United Nations Publication. [Download]

Other Papers

• Comment on "Geographic diversification of the supply chains of Japanese firms," Asian Economic Policy Review, 16(2), 2021, pp. 323-324. [Download]

• Regulatory Dissimilarity: A First Look at the Newly Collected Non-Tariff Measures Database (with Kaoru Nabeshima), ERIA Discussion Paper Series ERIA-DP-2018-12, ERIA. [Download]

• Comment on "United Nations Sanctions on North Korea's Luxury Goods Imports: Impact and Implications," Asian Economic Policy Review, 14(2), 2019, pp. 234-235. [Download]

• International Production Networks in Machinery Industries: Structure and Its Evolution (with Fukunari Kimura), ERIA Discussion Paper Series ERIA-DP-2010-09, ERIA. [Download]

• International Production Networks: Comparison between China and ASEAN (with Fukunari Kimura), ERIA Discussion Paper Series ERIA-DP-2009-01, ERIA. [Download]

• East Asian Production Networks and the Rise of China: Regional Diversity in Export Performance (with Fukunari Kimura), Keio/Kyoto Global COE Discussion Paper Series DP2008-004, Keio University. [Download]