Refereed papers

1. Intergenerational assimilation of minorities: The role of the majority group, forthcoming in European Economic Review (2024). (with R. Itoh and Y. Zenou) [earlier version: download] 

2. Do people accept different cultures?  Journal of Urban Economics 130, 103455 (2022). (with M. Nakagawa, T. Tabuchi, and K. Yamamoto) [earlier version: download]

3. Impacts of high-speed rail construction on land prices in urban agglomerations: Evidence from Kyushu in Japan,  Journal of Asian Economics 76, 101364  (2021). (with C. Okamoto) [earlier version: download]

4. Industrial structure in urban accounting, Regional Science and Urban Economics  91, 103576 (2021). (with J. Oshiro) [earlier version: download] [online appendices] [data for replication]

5. A first aid kit to assess welfare impacts, Economics Letters 205, 109928 (2021). (with K. Kawata) [earlier version: download]

6. The impact of tsunamis on land appraisals: Evidence from western Japan, PLOS ONE 16, e0248860 (2021). (with K. Shiba) [download]

7. Assimilation patterns in cities, European Economic Review 129, 103563 (2020). (with Y. Zenou) [earlier version: download]

8. Demographics and competition for capital in political economy,   International Tax and Public Finance 27, 865-889 (2020). (with T. Morita and K. Yamamoto) [view]

9. Demographics, immigration, and market size, Japanese Economic Review 71, 597–639 (2020) . (with K. Fukumura, K. Nagamachi, and K. Yamamoto) [earlier version: download] [share link]

10. Illegal immigration, unemployment, and multiple destinations, Journal of Regional Science 59, 118-144 (2019). (with K. Miyagiwa) [download]

11. Spatial economic analysis on demographics, In: M. Ii, C. Hara, K. Hosono, and H. Matsushima (eds.) Trends in Modern Economics 2017, Chapter 5 (2017). (in Japanese) (人口動態の空間経済分析, 井伊雅子・原 千秋・細野 薫・松島 斉 編「現代経済学の潮流2017」, 第5章, (2017))

12. Multi-region job search with moving costs, Regional Science and Urban Economics 61, 114–129 (2016). (with K. Kawata and K. Nakajima) [earlier version: download]

13. Who gains from capital market integration: Tax competition between unionized and non-unionized countries, Canadian Journal of Economics  49, 76-110 (2016). (with H. Ogawa and T. Tamai) [earlier version: download]

14. Capital mobility－a resource curse or blessing? How, when, for whom?, Journal of Public Economic Theory 18, 417-450 (2016). (with H. Ogawa and J. Oshiro) [earlier version: download]

15. How urbanization affect employment and social interactions, European Economic Review 75, 131-155 (2015). (with Y. Zenou) [earlier version: download]

16. Land development, search frictions, and city structure, Regional Science and Urban Economics 50,63-76 (2015). (with W. Xiao) [earlier version: download]

17. A model of urban demography, Canadian Journal of Economics 47, 981-1009 (2014). (with H. Aiura) [earlier version: download]

18. Free entry and regulatory competition in a global economy, Journal of Public Economics 118, 1-14 (2014). (with K. Miyagiwa) [earlier version: download]

19. Horizontal mergers, firm heterogeneity, and R&D investments, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 13, 959-990 (2013). (with N. Matsushima and K. Yamamoto)

20. Trade impacts on skill acquisition via variety expansion, Japanese Economic Review 63, 451-466 (2012). (with K. Yamamoto) [earlier version: download]

21. Market size and entrepreneurship, Journal of Economic Geography 12, 1139-1166 (2012). (with T. Tabuchi and K. Yamamoto) [earlier version: download]

22. On-the-job search in urban areas, Regional Science and Urban Economics 42, 715-726 (2012). (with K. Kawata) [earlier version: download]

23. Migration, skill formation, and the wage structure, Journal of Regional Science 51, 5-30 (2011). (with K. Behrens) [earlier version: download]

24. On the impact of trade on the industrial structures of nations, International Journal of Economic Theory 7, 93-109 (2011). (with D. Oyama, T. Tabuchi and J.-F. Thisse) 

25. Capital tax competition and search unemployment, Papers in Regional Science 88, 749-764 (2009).

26. International commodity taxation in the presence of unemployment, Journal of Public Economics 93, 939-949 (2009). (with S. Moriconi)

27. OLS estimation and the t test revisited in rank-size rule regression, Journal of Regional Science 48, 691-716 (2008). (with Y. Nishiyama and S. Osada)

28. Welfare properties of spatial competition with location dependent costs, Regional Science and Urban Economics 38, 32-48 (2008). (with H. Aiura)

29. Technological progress, income inequality and fertility, Journal of Population Economics 21, 135-157 (2008). (with K. Tabata and K. Yamamoto)

30. Competing for capital when labor is heterogeneous, European Economic Review 51, 2054-2079 (2007). (with J.-F. Thisse)

31. Economic geography, fertility and migration, Journal of Urban Economics 61, 372-387 (2007).

32. A note on unemployment and capital tax competition, Journal of Urban Economics 60, 350-356 (2006). (with H. Ogawa and T. Tamai)   [Erratum] [longer version: Unemployment and capital tax competition, DEE Discussion paper No.04-2, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, (2004). [download]

33. `Brain drain' without migration: Capital market integration and capital-skill complementarities, Economics Bulletin 18 No.1, 1-9 (2006). (with K. Behrens)

34. Bargaining power of landlords and underdevelopment in a system of cities, Papers in Regional Science 84, 239-250, (2005).

35. Population concentration, urbanization, and demographic transition, Journal of Urban Economics 58, 45-61, (2005).(with K. Yamamoto)

36. Migration, frictional unemployment, and welfare improving labor policies, Journal of Regional Science 44, 773-793, (2004).

37. City structure, search and workers' job acceptance behavior, Journal of Urban Economics 55, 350-370, (2004).

38. On labor policies affecting investment in general human capital, Labour 17, 599-622, (2003).(with H. Sugiura)

39. Labor heterogeneity in an urban labor market, Journal of Urban Economics 50, 313-337, (2001).

40. Search theory and the wage curve, Economics Letters 66, 93-98, (2000).

41. An analysis of a rental housing search in a city, JCER Economic Journal 41, 132-150, (2000). (in Japanese with English summary) (都市内部における賃貸住宅探し行動の分析, 「日本経済研究」第41号, 132-150, (2000).)

42. Labor heterogeneity, agglomeration economies and regional labor markets, Kokumin-keizai 162, 1-20, (1999). (in Japanese) (労働力の多様性、集積の経済と地域労働市場, 「国民経済」第162号, 1-20, (1999).)

Books

1. Cities as a place of diversity (2024). (in Japanese)(「多様性の受け皿としての都市機能の分析」三菱経済研究所(2024).)

2. Introduction to Urban and Regional Economics, Yuhikaku (2014) (second edition: 2023). (in Japanese) (「都市・地域経済学への招待状」有斐閣ストゥディア(2014) (新版: 2023).)

3. Spatial Economics, Yuhikaku (2011). (with T. Tabuchi and K. Yamamoto, in Japanese) (佐藤泰裕・田渕隆俊・山本和博「空間経済学」有斐閣 (2011).)

Papers submitted to journals and recent discussion papers

• Property tax competition: A quantitative assessment, CIRJE Discussion Papers F-1199, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo (2022). (with R. Borck and J. Oshiro) [download] R&R Journal of Urban Economics

• Measuring discrimination in spatial equilibrium: 100 years of Japan’s invisible race, CIRJE Discussion Papers F-1188 / CREPE Discussion Papers 116, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo (2022). (with A. Yamagishi) [download(CIRJE)][download(CREPE)][new version 2022/9/10] R&R Review of Economics and Statistics

• A Theory of public goods under complementarity between safety and consumptions, CIRJE Discussion Papers F-1150 , Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo (2020). (with I. Aiba) [download] 

• Segregation and public spending under social identification, CIRJE Discussion Papers F-1132, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo (2019). (with M. Nakagawa and K. Yamamoto) [download]