Current Position
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Kansai University
Contact
mizobata [at] kansai-u.ac.jp
(please replace [at] with ＠)
Research Fields
1. The interaction between firm investments and their financing constraints
2. The joint behavior of investment and hiring
3. Bayesian estimation of DSGE models
Education
2014 Ph.D., Economics, Kyoto University, Japan
2009 M.A., Economics, Kyoto University, Japan
2007 B.A., Economics, Kyoto University, Japan
Published Papers
( in English)
Japan's dual labor market and its macroeconomic characteristics, Empirical Economics, 67, 165-196, 2024.
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan, Journal of Corporate Finance, 82, 102472, 2023.
Financial heterogeneity and the dynamics of credit rationing in Japan, Applied Economics, 54(6), 685-701, 2022.
Heterogeneous worker flows and Japan's labor market, Applied Economics Letters, 29(1), 75-79, 2022.
Differing factor adjustment costs across industries: Evidence from Japan, Economic Modelling, 54, 382-391, 2016.
Hiring, investments, and financial distress: Evidence from a PVAR analysis of Japanese firms, Economics Bulletin, 35(4), 2558-2566, 2015.
What determines the Japanese firm investments: real or financial?, Applied Economics, 46(3), 303-311, 2014.
( in Japanese)
Does the government's request change corporate behavior?: An empirical analysis of wage increase in the construction industry using the survey of subcontractors in Japan, with M. Yodo and T. Yukimoto, JCER Economic Journal, 77, 25-44, 2019.
Empirical analysis of VFM and contract structures in PFI projects: An analysis of PFI projects in Japan, with M. Yodo and Y. Hayashida, Economic Analysis, 192, 47-66, 2017.
Corporate investment behavior under incomplete goods and credit markets, Journal of Economic Policy Studies, 11, 1, 3-19, 2014. (Link is DP version)
Working Papers
Credit supply shocks and employment adjustments in Japanese firms, available at SSRN, 2024.
Factor adjustments and liquidity management: Evidence from Japan's two lost decades, with Hiroshi Teruyama, KIER Discussion Paper Series,1043, 2020.
Intensive and extensive margins of capital and labor, with Hiroki Toyoda, available at SSRN, 2020. (Old version: Business cycles, asset prices, and the frictions of capital and labor. KIER Discussion Paper, 953.)
The effects of repatriation taxes on FDI: Evidence from OECD multinationals, with Masaaki Suzuki, KIER Discussion Paper Series, 902, 2014.
Presentations (latest three years)
2025 Japanese Economic Association
2024 Japan Economic Policy Association (International Conference)
2023 Doshisha University
Refereeing Activities
Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Economics Bulletin, Economic Modelling, Economic Review (Keizai Kenkyu), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, International Journal of Economic Policy Studies, Japan and the World Economy, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Kyoto Economic Review