Property tax competition: A quantitative assessment, forthcoming: Journal of Urban Economics (2026). (with R. Borck and J. Oshiro) [download]
Persistent stigma in space: 100 years of Japan's invisible race and their neighborhoods, forthcoming: Review of Economics and Statistics (2025) [earlier version: download, this paper was previously circulated under the title "Measuring Discrimination in Spatial Equilibrium: 100 Years of Japan’s Invisible Race"] (with A. Yamagishi) [VoxDev]
Social integration of immigrants in cities: Theory and evidence from the European Social Survey, accepted: Japanese Economic Review (2025). (with H. Matsuyama and C. Okamoto) [download]
Intergenerational assimilation of minorities: The role of the majority group, European Economic Review 164, 104722 (2024). (with R. Itoh and Y. Zenou) [earlier version: download]
Do people accept different cultures? Journal of Urban Economics 130, 103455 (2022). (with M. Nakagawa, T. Tabuchi, and K. Yamamoto) [earlier version: download]
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]
Industrial structure in urban accounting, Regional Science and Urban Economics 91, 103576 (2021). (with J. Oshiro) [earlier version: download] [online appendices] [data for replication]
A first aid kit to assess welfare impacts, Economics Letters 205, 109928 (2021). (with K. Kawata) [earlier version: download]
The impact of tsunamis on land appraisals: Evidence from western Japan, PLOS ONE 16, e0248860 (2021). (with K. Shiba) [download]
Assimilation patterns in cities, European Economic Review 129, 103563 (2020). (with Y. Zenou) [earlier version: download]
Demographics and competition for capital in political economy, International Tax and Public Finance 27, 865-889 (2020). (with T. Morita and K. Yamamoto) [view]
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]
Illegal immigration, unemployment, and multiple destinations, Journal of Regional Science 59, 118-144 (2019). (with K. Miyagiwa) [download]
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))
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]
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]
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]
How urbanization affect employment and social interactions, European Economic Review 75, 131-155 (2015). (with Y. Zenou) [earlier version: download]
Land development, search frictions, and city structure, Regional Science and Urban Economics 50,63-76 (2015). (with W. Xiao) [earlier version: download]
A model of urban demography, Canadian Journal of Economics 47, 981-1009 (2014). (with H. Aiura) [earlier version: download]
Free entry and regulatory competition in a global economy, Journal of Public Economics 118, 1-14 (2014). (with K. Miyagiwa) [earlier version: download]
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)
Trade impacts on skill acquisition via variety expansion, Japanese Economic Review 63, 451-466 (2012). (with K. Yamamoto) [earlier version: download]
Market size and entrepreneurship, Journal of Economic Geography 12, 1139-1166 (2012). (with T. Tabuchi and K. Yamamoto) [earlier version: download]
On-the-job search in urban areas, Regional Science and Urban Economics 42, 715-726 (2012). (with K. Kawata) [earlier version: download]
Migration, skill formation, and the wage structure, Journal of Regional Science 51, 5-30 (2011). (with K. Behrens) [earlier version: download]
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)
Capital tax competition and search unemployment, Papers in Regional Science 88, 749-764 (2009).
International commodity taxation in the presence of unemployment, Journal of Public Economics 93, 939-949 (2009). (with S. Moriconi)
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)
Welfare properties of spatial competition with location dependent costs, Regional Science and Urban Economics 38, 32-48 (2008). (with H. Aiura)
Technological progress, income inequality and fertility, Journal of Population Economics 21, 135-157 (2008). (with K. Tabata and K. Yamamoto)
Competing for capital when labor is heterogeneous, European Economic Review 51, 2054-2079 (2007). (with J.-F. Thisse)
Economic geography, fertility and migration, Journal of Urban Economics 61, 372-387 (2007).
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]
`Brain drain' without migration: Capital market integration and capital-skill complementarities, Economics Bulletin 18 No.1, 1-9 (2006). (with K. Behrens)
Bargaining power of landlords and underdevelopment in a system of cities, Papers in Regional Science 84, 239-250, (2005).
Population concentration, urbanization, and demographic transition, Journal of Urban Economics 58, 45-61, (2005).(with K. Yamamoto)
Migration, frictional unemployment, and welfare improving labor policies, Journal of Regional Science 44, 773-793, (2004).
City structure, search and workers' job acceptance behavior, Journal of Urban Economics 55, 350-370, (2004).
On labor policies affecting investment in general human capital, Labour 17, 599-622, (2003).(with H. Sugiura)
Labor heterogeneity in an urban labor market, Journal of Urban Economics 50, 313-337, (2001).
Search theory and the wage curve, Economics Letters 66, 93-98, (2000).
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).)
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).)
Let’s Talk about Issues in Urban and Rural Areas by Using Economics as a Clue, Yuhikaku (2025). (in Japanese) (「経済学を手がかりに、都市と地方を論じてみよう」有斐閣(2025).)
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).)
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).)
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).)
Optimal city size with endogenous fertility, CESifo Working Paper No. 12595 (2026). (with R. Borck and T. Morita) [download]