Publications

• "Fairness Concerns and Job Assignment to Positions with Different Surplus" (with Katarína Danková, Hodaka Morita, Maroš Servátka, and Le Zhang). Southern Economic Journal, Vol.88, Issue 4, pp.1490 – 1516. [Downloadable]

• "Welfare improving horizontal mergers in successive oligopoly" (with Arghya Ghosh and Chengsi Wang). Journal of Industrial Economics, 2022, Vol.70, Issue 1, pp. 89 – 118. [Downloadable]

• "FDI and Quality-Enhancing Technology Spillovers” (with Xuan Nguyen). International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021, Vol. 79, Article 102787.  [Downloadable]

• "Parallel Imports and Repair Services” (with Jota Ishikawa and Hiroshi Mukunoki). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, Vol. 172, pp. 137 – 160. [Downloadable]

• "Investment in Outside Options as Opportunistic Behavior: An Experimental Investigation" (with Maroš Servátka). Southern Economic Journal, 2018, Vol. 85 (2), pp. 457 – 484. [Downloadable]

• "Technology Spillovers, Intellectual Property Rights, and Export-Platform FDI" (with Arghya Ghosh and Xuan Nguyen). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, Vol. 151 (July), pp. 171 – 190. [Downloadable]

• "Knowledge Transfer and Partial Equity Ownership" (with Arghya Ghosh). RAND Journal of Economics, 2017, Vol. 48 (4), pp. 1044 - 1067. [Downloadable]. Online Appendix [Downloadable]

• "Training and Intrinsic Motivation in Nonpronfit and For-profit Organizations" (with Jed DeVaro and Nan Maxwell). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, Vol. 139 (July), pp. 196 - 213. [Downloadable]

• "Incremental Innovation and Competitive Pressure in the Presence of Discrete Innovation" (with Arghya Ghosh and Takao Kato). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, Vol. 135 (March), pp. 1 - 14 (lead article). [Downloadable]    

• "Does Group Identity Prevent Inefficient Investment in Outside Options? An Experimental Investigation" (with Maroš Servátka). Researchin Experimental Economics 2016, Vol. 19, pp. 105 - 126. [Downloadable]     

• "Trade Liberalization and Aftermarket Services for Imports" (with Jota Ishikawa and Hiroshi Mukunoki). Economic Theory, 2016, Vol. 62 (October), pp. 719 - 764. [Downloadable]

• "Formal Contracts, Relational Contracts, and the Threat-Point Effect" (with Hideshi Itoh). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, Vol. 7 (3), pp. 318 - 346. [Downloadable]

• "New Implications of Lazear’s Skill-Weights Approach" (with Clare Noone). Economic Modelling, 2014, Vol. 43, pp. 476 – 479. [Downloadable]

• "Internal Promotion and External Recruitment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis" (with Jed DeVaro). Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, Vol. 31 (2), pp. 227 - 269 (lead article). [Downloadable]

• "Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation" (with Maroš Servátka). European Economic Review, 2013, Vol. 58 (February), pp. 95-109. [Downloadable]

• "Firm Dynamics and Labor Market Consequences". Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2012, Vol 28(2), pp.235-264. [Downloadable]

• "Competitor Collaboration and Product Distinctiveness" (with Arghya Ghosh). International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2012, Vol. 30 (2), pp. 137-152. [Downloadable]

• "FDI in Post-Production Services and Product Market Competition" (with Jota Ishikawa and Hiroshi Mukunoki). Journal of International Economics, 2010, Vol. 82 (1), pp. 73-84. [Downloadable]

• "Competition, Monopoly Maintenance, and Consumer Switching Costs" (with Michael Waldman). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, Vol. 2 (1), pp. 230-250. [Downloadable]

• "An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing" (with Arghya Ghosh). Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2008, Vol. 22 (2), pp. 164-186. [Downloadable]    NBER Working Paper No. 13058. [Downloadable]

• "Free Entry and Social Efficiency under Vertical Oligopoly" (with Arghya Ghosh). RAND Journal of Economics, 2007, Vol. 38 (2), pp. 539-552. [Downloadable]

• "Social Desirability of Free Entry: A Bilateral Oligopoly Analysis" (with Arghya Ghosh). International Journal of industrial Organization, 2007, Vol. 25 (5), pp. 925-934. [Downloadable]

• "International Credit and Welfare: A Paradoxical Theorem and its Policy Implications" (with Kaushik Basu). European Economic Review, 2006, Vol. 50, (August), pp. 1507-1528. [Downloadable]

• "Platform Sharing in a Differentiated Duopoly" (with Arghya Ghosh). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2006, Vol. 15, (Summer), pp. 397-429. [Downloadable]

• "Multi-skilling, Delegation, and Continuous Process Improvement: A Comparative Analysis of US-Japanese Work Organizations." Economica, 2005, Vol. 72, (February), pp. 69-93.[Downloadable]

• "Impacts of the Information-technology Revolution on Japanese Manufacturer-supplier Relationships" (with Hirohiko Nakahara). Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2004, Vol. 18, (September), pp. 390-415. [Downloadable]

• "Durable Goods, Monopoly Maintenance, and Time Inconsistency" (with Michael Waldman). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2004, Vol. 13, (Summer), pp. 273-302. [Downloadable]

• "Partial Ownership Induces Customised Investments under Repeated Interaction: an Explanation of Japanese Manufacturer-Suppliers Relationships." Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001, vol. 48, (August), pp. 345-359. [Downloadable]

• "Choice of Technology and Labour Market Consequences: an Explanation of U.S.-Japanese Differences." Economic Journal, 2001, vol. 111, (January), pp. 29-50. [Downloadable]

Book chapter

• "Employee Involvement Under Rising Competitive Pressure: Evidence from Two Manufacturing Firms in Japan”.In Daphne Berry and Takao Kato, eds., Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies, 2018, pp. 105-119, Emerald Publishing Limited.

• "U.S.-Japanese Differences in Employment Practices: New Explanations and Predictions”. In Ajit Mishra and Tridip Ray, eds., Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development, 2017. Oxford University Press.

• "Multiskilling” (with Jed DeVaro). 2015. Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 3rd edition, vol. 5 (1), Human Resource Management.

Publications in Japanese

• "Bubuntekikabushikishoyu wo tomonau kigyokanteikei no rironbunseki (Inter-Firm Alliances Accompanied by Partial Equity Ownership: Theoretical analyses)" (with Kumpei Akiyama, Tomohiro Ara, Shosuke Noguchi, and Arghya Ghosh) (in Japanese). Keizai Kenkyu (The Economic Review), 2022, Vol.73, No. 2, pp. 97 – 116.

• "Jintekishihon no kigyotokususei: Sono naiseitekiketteipurosesu (Firm-Specificity of Human Capital: Process of its Endogenous Determination)” (with Cheng-Tao Tang, Shosuke Noguchi, and Kumpei Akiyama)(in Japanese). Keizai Kenkyu, 2019, Vol. 70, No. 4, pp. 312 - 330.

• "Naiburodoshijo no keizaigakuteki bunseki: Aratana shiten (Economic Analyses of Internal Labor Market: New Perspectives)” (in Japanese). Nihon Rodo Kenkyu Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Labour Studies), 2012, vol. 54, (October), pp. 4-13 (lead article).

• "Senryakuteki teikei no keizai bunseki: Futatsuno shiten (Economic Analysis of Strategic Alliances: Two Perspectives)” (in Japanese). In Kenzo Abe, Masao Ogaki, Kazuo Ogawa, and Takatoshi Tabuchi, eds., Gendai Keizaigaku no Choryu 2011 (Modern Trends in Economics 2011; published each year by Japan Economic Association), 2011, pp. 125-155. Tokyo: Toyo Keizai Shinposha.