Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae  April, 2023 

Name

FUKUMURA Koichi

Current Position

Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kagawa University

Date of Birth

July 17, 1988

Contacts

fukumura.koichiあkagawa-u.ac.jp, fukumura1988あgmail.com

Please replace "あ" with  "@."

Research Field

Spatial Economics, Urban Economics, Regional Economics, Public Economics

Interests

Relationship between  Education (or Human Capital) and  Space

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Osaka University, March, 2018

• M.A. in Economics, Osaka University, March, 2015

• B.A. in Economics, Osaka University, March, 2014

Academic Work Experience (Full time)

• Associate Professor (Faculty of Economics, Kagawa University) , June, 2020--present

• Lecturer (Faculty of Economics, Kagawa University) , April, 2019--May, 2020

• JSPS Research Fellow (PD), April, 2018--March, 2019

• JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), April, 2017--March, 2018

  Academic Work Experience (Part time)

• Part time Lecturer (Introductory Economics), Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Science, Spring (2020--2023)

• Part time Lecturer (Advanced Computer/ Word), School of Management, Kindai University, September, 2017--February, 2018

• Part time Lecturer (Introductory Economics 2), School of Economics, Konan University, September, 2017--February, 2018

• Part time Lecturer (Advanced Computer/ Excel), School of Management, Kindai University, April, 2017--July, 2017

• Part time Lecturer (Introductory Economics 1), School of Economics, Konan University, April, 2017--July, 2017

• Econometrics 2(Makoto Takahashi) Teaching Assistant(with Jun Sakamoto), Graduate School of Economoics, Osaka University, October, 2016--February, 2017

• Microeconomics 2 (Junichiro Ishida) Teaching Assistant(with Takao Takasago), Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, October, 2016--February, 2017

• Research Assistant(Junichiro Ishida), Institute of Social and Economic Research, August, 2016--March, 2017

• Research Assistant(Makoto Takahashi), Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, April, 2016--March, 2017

• Microeconomics 2(Noriaki Matsushima) Teaching Assistant(with Shohei Yoshida), Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, October 2015--February, 2016

• Research Assistant(Masaki Aoyagi and Noriaki Matsushima), Institute of Social and  Economic  Research, May, 2015--March, 2016

• Microeconomics 1(Masaki Aoyagi) Teaching Assistant(with Ryota Ohata), Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, April--September, 2015

Scholarship 

• Japan Student Services Organization Student Interest Free Loan Exemption, June, 2017 (about 1.5 million yen)

• Japan Student Services Organization Student Interest Free Loan Exemption, June, 2015 (about 0.5 million yen)

• Scholarship for Japanese Graduate Students, Asahi Glass Scholarship Foundation(AGF site), April,  2015--March, 2017 (1.2 million yen per year, total 2.4 million yen)

Research Funds

• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, April, 2021--March, 2024, (21K13285, FY2021 1.2 million yen, FY2022 1.2 million yen, FY2023 1.2million yen)

• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up, August, 2019--March, 2021, (19K23225, FY2019 1.1 million yen, FY2020 1 million yen)

• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow, April, 2017--March, 2019 , (17J06452, FY2017 1 million yen, FY 2018 0.9 million yen)

Papers

English (Refereed)

1. Minimum Wage Competition (with Atsushi Yamagishi), International Tax and Public Finance, 27(6), (2020), p.p. 1557 - 1581.

2. Demographics, Immigration, and Market Size (with Kohei Nagamachi, Yasuhiro Sato and Kazuhiro Yamamoto), Japanese Economic Review,  71, (2020), p.p. 597--639.

3. Effects of education externalities on schooling,  Economic Modelling, 60, (2017), p.p. 39--50.

English (Non-refereed)

Japanese

1. 犯罪抑止政策が地域経済に与える影響 (Effects of Crime Reduction Policies on Regional Economies, Japanese only), 福村晃一(Koichi Fukumura), 三浦翼(Tsubasa Miura), 古賀遼介(Ryosuke Koga), Osaka Economic Papers, Vol. 64, No.1,(June, 2014), p.p. 84--86.

Discussion Paper

1. Migration under Imperfect Skill Evaluation, Koichi Fukumura, SSRN, March, 2023

2. Skill-biased Technical Change, Demographics, and Market Size, Koichi Fukumura, February 2020, The Institute of Economic Research Working Paper Series No. 228, Kagawa University

Presentations

1. Urban Economics Workshop, The University of Tokyo(Online, January, 2022), "Migration under Imperfect Skill Evaluation" presentation

2. Regional Science Seminar, Kagawa University(February, 2020), "Skill biased technical change, demographics, and market size", presentation

3. 2019 SMU Conference on Urban and Regional Economics, Singapore(December, 2019), "Skill biased technical change, demographics, and market size", presentation

4. Applied Regional Science Conference (ARSC) 33rd  Annual Meeting Saga University(November, 2019), "Skill biased technical change, demographics, and market size",  presentation

5. Western Regional Science Association 58th Annual Meeting, Napa Valley Marriot | Napa, California(February, 2019), "Minimum Wage Competition,"  presentation

6. Public Economics Workshop, The University of Tokyo(December, 2018), "Minimum Wage Competition, " presentation

7. Urban Economics Workshop, The University of Tokyo(October, 2018), "Skill biased technical change, demographics, and market size," presentation

8. Applied Regional Science Conference (ARSC) 31st  Annual Meeting The University of Tokyo(November, 2017), "Quality or Quantity: Problem of Local Governments under Asymmetric Tax Competition",  presentation

9. Western Regional Science Association 56th Annual Meeting, La Fonda on the Plaza | Santa Fe, New Mexico(February, 2017), "Demographics, immigration, and market size", presentation

10. 11th Macroeconomics conference for young economist,  Nakanoshima center, Osaka University(January, 2017), "Demographics, immigration, and market size", presentation

11. Japanese Economic Association  Autumn Meeting, Sophia University, (October, 2015), "The effects of educational externality on schooling", Poster

Discussant

1. Western Regional Science Association 58th Annual Meeting, Napa Valley Marriot | Napa, California(February, 2019), "Do Robots Increase Wages? A Topic Modeling Approach at Individual and Metropolitan Levels," Nancey G. Leigh, Heonyeong Lee, Benjamin Kraft, Presented by Nancey G. Leigh

2. The Osaka Conference on Spatial and Urban Economics(October, 2016), Urban structure under forward and backward linkages, Pierre M Picard, Takatoshi Tabuchi, Pascal Mossay, Presented by Takatoshi Tabuchi

Referee 

• Economic Modelling (4): Outstanding contribution in reviewing awarded April, 2017

Awards

• Kusumoto Prize, Osaka University, March, 2014

• Second Prize in the Students Essay Contest in School of Economics, Osaka University, February, 2014

Affiliation

• Japanese Economic Association

• Applied Regional Science Conference

• Regional Science Association International

Other

• Accounting Officer of Graduate Students Association of Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University April, 2016--March, 2017

Languages

Japanese(native), English(non-native),

Computer Skill

 LaTeX, Matlab, Mathematica, Stata, ArcGIS