Working papers 

• 2023,  "Immigration, imports, and (im)mutable Japanese labor markets." (with Yumin Sui and Emily Taguchi) Keio DP

• 2022, "A long-run transition of Japan's inter-regional value chains." (with Toshihiro Okubo) RIETI

• 2022, "The empirics of the China trade shock: a summary of estimation methods and a literature review." Keio DP

• 2021, "The effects of trade on the gender gaps: a model-based quantitative investigation." (with Hiroaki Mori) RIETI

• 2021, "Costs of sovereign debt restructurings: restructuring strategies and the financial intermediation." (with Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, and Aitor Erce) SSRN Previously circulated as "Costs of sovereign debt restructurings: restructuring strategies and the credit-investment channel" and "Costs of sovereign defaults: restructuring strategies, bank distress and the capital inflow-credit channel."

• 2020, "The impact of global warming on rural-urban migrations: evidence from global big data." (with Giovanni Peri) Latest version; NBER

• 2016, "Trade costs of sovereign debt restructurings: does a market friendly approach improve the outcome?" (with Tamon Asonuma and Marcos Chamon) SSRN

• 2016, "Spatial income inequality." (solo-authored, dormant)  

Peer-reviewed publications

• 2022, "Importing inputs for climate change mitigation: the case of agricultural productivity." Review of International Economics, 30(1):34-56. (with Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, and Hans Weisfeld) 

• 2020, "Gains from trade and the sovereign bond market." European Economic Review, 124:103413. (with Ayumu Ken Kikkawa)

• 2019, "Explaining the employment effect of exports: value-added content matters." Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 52:1-21. (solo-authored)

• 2018, "The 'China shock', exports, and U.S. employment: a global input-output analysis." Review of International Economics, 26(5):1053-1083. (with Robert C. Feenstra)

• 2013, "A theory of gains from imported inputs." The International Economy, 16:37-57.  (solo-authored)

Book chapters and other completed work

• 2022, "Sovereign debt restructurings: survey on concepts, trends, empirics, and theory." Public Policy Review, 18(1):1–16. (with Tamon Asonuma and Hyungseok Joo)

• 2019, "The 'China shock' in trade: consequences for ASEAN and East Asia." In: World Trade Evolutions: Growth, Productivity and Employment, edited by Lili Yan Ing and Miaojie Yu, Routledge. (with Robert C. Feenstra) 

• 2018, "Sovereign debt restructurings: an overview of the empirical literature." The Journal of Investing, 27(3):56-64. (with Tamon Asonuma and Aitor Erce) 

Teaching

Keio University 

• Economies and Societies in Globalization, undergraduate (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023)

• International Trade A, undergraduate (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023) 

• International Trade B, undergraduate (Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)

• Undergraduate Seminar, undergraduate (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)

• International Trade, graduate (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023)

Hitotsubashi University 

• Advanced International Economics II, graduate (Summer 2020, Summer 2021) 

Ministry of Finance Japan 

• International Trade (Spring 2021 Syllabus written in Japanese)

Akira Sasahara, Faculty of Econonics, Keio University