Research

Fields:

International Trade, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics, Japanese Economy

Books Published:

• International Trade and Wage Inequality (in Japanese), Tokyo: Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute, 2011.

Publications in Refereed Journals:

• "Job Rotation or Specialization? A Dynamic Matching Model Analysis," forthcoming in Review of Economic Design, with Morimitsu Kurino.  [Download at Springer]

• "Intermediate Goods-Skill Complementarity," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 24 (2024), 149-186, with Kozo Kiyota.  [Download at DE GRUYTER]

• "Factor Intensity Reversals Redux: Feenstra Is Right!" Review of International Economics, 30 (2022), 885-914, with Kozo Kiyota.  [Download at Wiley (Open Access)]  WILEY Top Downloaded Article 2021. 

• "Do Exporters Respond to Both Tariffs and Nominal Exchange Rates? Evidence from Chinese Firm-Product Data," Review of International Economics, 30 (2022), 514-548, with Zhe Chen.  [Download at Wiley]

• "The Extensive Margin of International Trade in a Transition Economy: The Case of Mongolia," Comparative Economic Studies, 63 (2021), 648-673, with Chingunjav Amarsanaa.  [Download at Springer] 

• "Entry Costs, Task Variety, and Skill Flexibility: A Simple Theory of (Top) Income Skewness," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 21 (2021), 97-124, with Manoj Atolia.  [Download at DE GRUYTER]

• "A Simple Model of Competition Policies, Trade, and the Skill Premium," The International Economy, 23 (2020), 145-162.  [Download at J-STAGE]

• "Exchange Rate Regimes and Wage Comovements in a Ricardian Model with Money," Journal of International Economics, 102 (2016), 96-109, with Jiaren Pang and Yao Tang.  [Download at ScienceDirect]  (Supplementary Appendix)

• "The Impact of Trade Margins on the Skill Premium: Evidence from Mexico," Journal of Policy Modeling, 38 (2016), 895-915, with Manoj Atolia.  [Download at ScienceDirect]  (Supplementary Appendix)

• "A Survey of Trade and Wage Inequality: Anomalies, Resolutions, and New Trends," Journal of Economic Surveys, 28 (2014), 169-193.  [Download at Wiley]

• "Is a Skill Intensity Reversal a Mere Theoretical Curiosum? Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico," Economics Letters, 112 (2011), 151-154.  [Download at ScienceDirect]

• "Variety-Skill Complementarity: A Simple Resolution of the Trade-Wage Inequality Anomaly," Economic Theory, 46 (2011), 297-325.  [Download at Springer]  2006 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, MVEA 43rd Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• "Fixed Cost, Number of Firms, and Skill Premium: An Alternative Source for Rising Wage Inequality," Economics Letters, 108 (2010), 141-144.  [Download at ScienceDirect]

Working Papers:

• "The Value Added-Exports Puzzle and Global Value Chains," with Zhe Chen.  (02/15/2023 version)

• "Impact of Trade on Industry-Level Output," revise and resubmit, with Arjad Abbas Khosa and Zhengfei Yu.  (03/25/2024 version)

Work in Progress:

• "Technology, Trade, and the Skill Premium in a Model with Skill Flexibility," with Manoj Atolia.

• "Competition Policy and Brain Drain: An Alternative Rationale for Regulation," with Dongsoo Shin.

Last Updated: May 2, 2024