Toshiyuki Matsuura

Recent Publications

• ”Foreign Direct Investment and Quality-upgrading Spillovers in Indonesia”, 2025, forthcoming The World Economy (co-authored with Hisamitsu Saito) NEW!

• "Margins, concentration, and the performance of firms in international trade: Evidence from Japanese customs data," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2025, 75, 101340, Article Online (co-authored with Keiko Ito, Masahiro Endho, Naoto  Jinji, Toshihiro Okubo, Akira Sasahara) NEW! OPEN ACCESS

• "Quantifying the Costs of Utilizing Regional Trade Agreements," The World Economy, 2023, 46(12), 3542-3570. Article Online (co-authored with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Taiyo Yoshimi, Naoto Jinji) OPEN ACCESS

• "Foreign Direct Investment and Labor Demand by Skill in Indonesian Manufacturing Firms," Review of World Economics, 2023, 159, 921-941,  Article online (co-authored with Hisamitsu Saito) 

• "Intrafirm trade, input-output linkage, and contractual frictions: evidence from Japanese affiliate-level data" Review of World Economics, 2023, 159, 133-152, Article online (co-authored with Eiichi Tomiura, and Banri Ito)

• "Welfare gains through globalization: Evidence from Japan's manufacturing sector," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2022, 64, 101193. (co-authored with Hidetaka Aoyagi, Tadashi Ito)

• "Heterogeneous impact of import competition on firm organization: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data," The World Economy, 2022, 45(7), 2251-2269, https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13215 

• "Adjusting to China competition: Evidence from Japanese plant-product-level data," Review of International Economics, 2022, 30(3), p.732-763. https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12585 (co-authored with Bellone Flora and Selin Hazir)

• ”The COVID-19 pandemic and domestic travel subsidies," Annals of Tourism Research, 2022, 92, 103326. (co-authored with Hisamitsu Saito) OPEN ACCESS

• "Do regional trade agreements really help global value chains develop? evidence from Thailand", Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020,58, 1-8. (co-authored with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul)

Selected Publications

• "Multinationals, Intrafirm Trade, and Employment Volatility" (co-authored with Kozo Kiyota and Yoshio Higuchi), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53(3), 982-1015.

• "What's behind the Figures? Quantifying the Cross-Country Exporter Productivity Gap" (co-authored with Kozo Kiyota and Lionel Nesta), Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57(3), 1256-1271.

• "Trade Liberalization in Asia and FDI Strategies in Heterogeneous Firms: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data," (co-authored with Kazunobu Hayakawa),  Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67(2), 494-513.

• "International Productivity Gaps and the Export Status of Firms: Evidence from France and Japan", (co-authored with Flora BELLONE, Kozo KIYOTA, Patrick MUSSO, Lionel NESTA), European Economic Review, 2014, 70, pp.56-74.

• "Closure within multi-plant firms: evidence from Japan," Review of World Economics, 2012, 148, 647-668.(co-authored with Richard Kneller, Danny McGowan and Tomohiko Inui)

• “Reconsidering the Backward Vertical Linkage of Foreign Affiliates: Evidence from Japanese Multinationals,” World Development, Vol.36, No.8, pp.1398-1414, 2008 (co-authored with Kozo Kiyota, Shujiro Urata and Yuhong Wei )

Columns

• Vox CEPR's Policy Potal

  • Agglomeration eocnomies, productivity and quality upgrading: Evidence from Japan

  • The effect of openness on domestic employment volatility? Evidence from Japan

• Keio Research Highlights

  • Foreign investment boosts productivity at home