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Papers in Refereed Journals

1. “Determinants of Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements in Asia“
   with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Fukunari Kimura, and Shujiro Urata
   The World Economy, forthcoming

2. “The Magnification Effect in Global Value Chains”
   with Kazunobu Hayakawa
   Review of International Economics,  Vol.31(1), pp.141-157, 2023

3. “Can E-commerce Mitigate the Negative Impact of COVID-19 on International Trade?”
   with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Shujiro Urata
   Japanese Economic Review, Vol.74(2), pp.215-232, 2023 [Lead article of this issue] [Open Access]

4. “Lerner Meets Metzler: Tariff Pass-through of the Worldwide Trade”
   with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Tadashi Ito
   Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.63, 101173, 2022  [Open Access]

5. “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 [Open Access]

6. “Individual Characteristics and the Demand for Reciprocity in Trade Liberalization: Evidence from a Survey in Japan”
   with Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito, and  Ryuhei Wakasugi
   Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 58, 101071, 2021

7. “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

8. ”Impacts of COVID-19 on Global Value Chains”
   with Kazunobu Hayakawa
   The Developing Economies, Vol.59(2), pp.154-177, 2021

9. “Rules of Origin and Consumer-hurting Free Trade Agreements”
   with Hirofumi Okoshi
   The World Economy, Vol.44(8), pp.2303-2318, 2021 [Open Access]

10. “Impacts of Lockdown Policies on International Trade”
    with Kazunobu Hayakawa
    Asian Economic Papers, Vol.20(2), pp.123-141, 2021

11. “The Effects of Parallel Trade in Two-sided Markets”
    with Kuo-Feng Kao
    Economics Letters, Vol.199, 109721, 2021 [Open Access]

12. “Trade Liberalization and Incentives to Implement Antidumping Protection”
    International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 72, pp.422-437, 2021 [Open Access]

13. “Parallel Imports and Repair Services”
    with Jota Ishikawa and Hodaka Morita
     Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.172, pp.137-160, 2020

14. “Services Liberalization and Export Quality: Evidence from China”
    with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Chih-hai Yang
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 55, 101060, 2020

15. “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

16. “Individual Characteristics, Behavioral Biases and Attitudes Towards Foreign Workers: Evidence from a Survey in Japan”
    with Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito, and Ryuhei Wakasugi
    Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 50, pp.1-12, 2019 

17. “Trade Policy Preferences and Cross-Regional Differences: Evidence from Individual-Level Data of Japan”
    with Banri Ito, Eiichi Tomiura, and Ryuhei Wakasugi
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.51, pp.99-109, 2019

18. “Market Access and Technology Adoption in the Presence of FDI”
    Journal of Economics, Vol.122(3), pp.199-238, 2017 [Lead article of this issue] 

19. “On the Welfare Effect of a Free Trade Agreement in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment and Rules of Origin”
    Review of International Economics, Vol.25(4), pp.733–759, 2017

20. “Individual Characteristics, Behavioral Biases, and Trade Policy Preferences: Evidence from a Survey in Japan”
    with Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito, and  Ryuhei Wakasugi
    Review of International Economics, Vol.24(5), pp.1081–1095, 2016

21. “Trade Liberalization and Aftermarket Services for Imports”
    with Jota Ishikawa and Hodaka Morita
    Economic Theory, Vol.62(4), pp.719–764, 2016 

22. “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 

23. “Spillover Effects of Economic Integration in a Three-Country Model”
    with Jota Ishikawa
    Japanese Economic Review, Vol.59(2), pp. 211-227, 2008 

24. “Effects of Multilateral Trade Liberalization on Prices”
    with Jota Ishikawa
    Review of International Economics, Vol.16(1), pp.37-44, 2008

25. “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

26. “Multilateralism and Hub-and-Spoke Bilateralism”
    with Kentaro Tachi
    Review of International Economics, Vol.14(4), pp.658-674, 2006

27. “On the Optimal External Tariff of a Free Trade Area with Internal Market Integration”
    Japan and the World Economy,  Vol.16(4), pp.431-448, 2004