Research Papers:

• Elite Formation and Family Structure in Prewar Japan: Evidence from the Personnel Inquiry Records, with Suguru Otani and Yutaro Takayasu WP (June, 2026)

• Elite Persistence in Family: The Role of Adoption in Prewar Japan, with Yutaro Takayasu (2026) Economic History Review

• Impacts of Inter-firm Transaction Relations on the Adoption of Remote Work: Evidence from a Survey in Japan during the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Eiichi Tomiura (2023) Japan and the World Economy

• Using Managers' Expectations for Ex-ante Policy Evaluation: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis, with Kohei Kawaguchi, Naomi Kodama, and Mari Tanaka (2023) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

• Productivity Premium of Multinationals in Global Ownership Linkages: A Comparison of Second-tier Subsidiaries, with Eiichi Tomiura (2023) Review of International Economics

Contact: 

Room 425, Faculty Research Building (Annex), 1-155 Uegahara Ichiban-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Email: hiroshi.kumanomido@kwansei.ac.jp

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