Hiroshi MUKUNOKI

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University

Mejiro 1-5-1, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan

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Hiroshi Mukunoki is a Professor of Economics at Gakushuin University, Japan. Before moving to Gakushuin U, he was a JSPS Research Fellow (PD) at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He was a visiting professor at Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, from Sep. 2008 to Aug. 2010, a visiting professional fellow at the School of Economics, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia, from Sep. 2022 to Dec. 2022, and Visiting Professor/Scholar at the Department of Economics, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, from Jan. 2023 to Aug. 2023. Hiroshi obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Tokyo in 1999 and 2006, respectively. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yokohama National University, Japan, in 1997.

His primary research interests are in international trade, regional trade agreements, and foreign direct investment. He has published many papers in refereed journals, including Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, World Bank Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, and Review of International Economics. He won the Kojima Kiyoshi Prize in 2023 and the Oda Prize in 2012 from Japan Society of International Economics. One of his papers won the Kanematsu Fellowship from RIEB of Kobe University in 2001.

Publications Working Papers

Selected Publications
Please see here for the full list of publications in refereed journals.

“FDI in Post-Production Services and Product Market Competition” (with Jota Ishikawa and Hodaka Morita), Journal of International Economics Vol.82(1), pp.73-84, 2010
“Economic Integration and Rules of Origin under International Oligopoly” (with Jota Ishikawa and Yoshihiro Mizoguchi), International Economic Review, Vol.48(1), pp. 185-210, 2007
“Parallel Imports and Repair Services” (with Jota Ishikawa and Hodaka Morita), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.172, pp.137-160, 2020
“Impacts of COVID-19 on International Trade: Evidence from the First Shock” (with Kazunobu Hayakawa), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.60, 101135, 2021
“Impact of Free Trade Agreement Use on Import Prices” (with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul, and Shujiro Urata), World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 33(3), pp.643–660, 2019
“Trade Liberalization and Aftermarket Services for Imports” (with Jota Ishikawa and Hodaka Morita), Economic Theory, Vol.62(4), pp.719–764, 2016
“Multilateralism and Hub-and-Spoke Bilateralism” (with Kentaro Tachi), Review of International Economics, Vol.14(4), pp.658-674, 2006
“Tariff Elimination versus Tax Avoidance: Free Trade Agreements and Transfer Pricing” (with Hirofumi Okoshi), International Tax and Public Finance, Vol.28(5), pp.1188–1210, 2021

Recent Publications

“Optimal Trade Policies on a Monopoly Platform in Two-sided Markets“
(with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Kuo-Feng Kao), Review of International Economics, Vol.33(3), pp.783-795, 2025.
"Wake Not a Sleeping Lion: Free Trade Agreements and Decision Rights in Multinationals“ (with Hirofumi Okoshi), Review of International Economics, Vol.33(3), pp.505-518, 2025.
"Foreseeing Potential Trade Effects of Additive Manufacturing: Evidence from Trade in Sound Recordings" (with Kazunobu Hayakawa), International Economic Journal, Vol.38(4), pp.591-604, 2024.
"The Trade Effect of Regional Trade Agreements in the Presence of Duty Drawbacks" (with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul),
The World Economy, Vol.47(9), pp.3681-3708, 2024.
“Negotiating over the Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements in Asia“ (with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Fukunari Kimura, and Shujiro Urata), The World Economy, Vol.47(7), pp.3097-3119, 2024

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