Selected Publications

• Measuring political leader's geopolitical risk perceptions, 

International Economics, October 2025, 183: 100631. with Asei Ito (UTokyo) and Jaehwan Lim (AGU) open access

• Remembering Li Keqiang: Policy Divergence in Zhongnanhai and Its Economic Consequences,

The China Quarterly, June 2025, 262: 352-370. with Asei Ito (UTokyo) and Jaehwan Lim (AGU) open access

• The impact of export controls on international trade: Evidence from the Japan-Korea trade dispute in the semiconductor industry, 

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, December 2024, 74: 101336. with Ryo Makioka (Hokkaido) [VoxEU]

• Technical barriers to trade, product quality and trade margins: firm-level evidence, 

Review of World Economics, August 2024, 160(3): 785-811. with Ha Thi Thanh Doan (ERIA) 

• Uncertainty, imperfect information, and expectation formation over the firm’s life cycle,

Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2023, 140: 60-77. with Cheng Chen (Clemson), Tatsuro Senga (Keio), and Chang Sun (HKU) open access

previously circulated as "Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Learning in the International Market"

• Learning and information transmission within multinational corporations,

European Economic Review, April 2022, 143: 104016. with Cheng Chen (Clemson) and Chang Sun (HKU) open access

Other Publications

• Unpacking China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: A Text-as-Data Approach,

Journal of Contemporary China, forthcoming. with Asei Ito (UTokyo) and Jaehwan Lim (AGU)

• Global Sourcing and Firm Inventory during the Pandemic, 

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, August 2025. with Ha Thi Thanh Doan (ERIA) [VoxEU] 

• Uncovering Xi Jinping’s Policy Agenda: Text as Data Approach, 

The Developing Economies, March 2025, 63(1): 9-46. with Asei Ito (UTokyo) and Jaehwan Lim (AGU) open access

Special Issue: Text as Data in the Study of Politics in Developing Countries

• Xi Jinping’s Important Speeches as Data, 

Asia-Pacific Review, October 2024, 31(2): 13-49. with Asei Ito (UTokyo) and Jaehwan Lim (AGU) 

• Catching the political leader's signal: Economic policy uncertainty and firm investment in China,

China Economic Review, October 2023, 81: 102035. with Asei Ito (UTokyo) and Jaehwan Lim (AGU) 

• Moving out of China? Evidence from Japanese multinational firms, 

Economic Modelling, May 2022, 110: 105826. with Changyuan Luo (Fudan) and Chunxiao Si (ShanghaiU)

• The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Production: Evidence from Japanese Multinational Firms,

The International Economy, 2021, 24: 142-165. [VoxEU]

• The value-added tax reform and labor market outcomes: Firm-level evidence from China,

China Economic Review, October 2021, 69: 101678. with Yuxiang Yang (WuhanU) 

• Measuring business-level expectations and uncertainty: survey evidence and the COVID-19 pandemic, 

The Japanese Economic Review, July 2021, 72(3): 509-532. with Cheng Chen (Clemson) and Tatsuro Senga (Keio) open access

Special Issue: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Japanese Economy

• The Margins of Intermediate Goods Trade: Theory and Evidence,

The International Economy, 2020, 23: 105-144. with Tomohiro Ara (Fukushima)

Special Issue in Memory of Michihiro Ohyama and Makoto Ikema 

• Networks of foreign affiliates: Evidence from Japanese micro-data, 

The World Economy, July 2020, 43(7): 1841-1867. with Dorothée Rouzet (French Treasury) and Francesca Spinelli (OECD) [VoxEU] 

• Understanding the international mobility of Chinese temporary workers,

The World Economy, March 2019, 42(3): 738-758. 

• Political connections and antidumping investigations: Evidence from China,

China Economic Review, August 2018, 50: 34-41. 

• Markups and exporting behaviors of foreign affiliates, 

Journal of Comparative Economics, August 2017, 45(3): 445-455. with Lianming Zhu (Osaka) 

• Impacts of the WTO accession on Chinese exports,

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, May 2016, 14(4): 347-364. with Ryuhei Wakasugi (UNII) 

• How does agglomeration promote the product innovation of Chinese firms?

China Economic Review, September 2015, 35: 105-120. [VoxEU]