Recent Publications
"Quantifying the Costs of Utilizing Regional Trade Agreements," The World Economy,2023, in preses, Article Online (co-authored with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Taiyo Yoshimi, Naoto Jinji) NEW! OPEN ACCESS
"Foreign Direct Investment and Labor Demand by Skill in Indonesian Manufacturing Firms," Review of World Economics, 2022, in press, Article online (co-authored with Hisamitsu Saito) NEW!
"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 )
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