Research

Published and Forthcoming Papers:

2024, The Impact of Export Controls on International Trade: Evidence from the Japan–Korea Trade Dispute in Semiconductor Industry (slide) (journal) (with Hongyong Zhang), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 74: 101336.

                  Non-technical summary: in Japanese; VoxEU

2023, Quantile Difference in Differences with Time-varying Qualification in Panel Data (journal) (with Karim Nchare), Journal of Econometric Methods, 12(1): 105-116.

2022, The Heterogeneous Effects of COVID-19 on Labor Markets: People's Movement and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (slide) (journal) (with Kisho Hoshi, Hiroyuki Kasahara, Michio Suzuki, Satoshi Tanaka), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 63: 110-170.

   Non-technical summary: in Japanese

2021, The Impact of Anti-Sweatshop Activisms on Employment, (slide) (journal), Review of Development Economics 25(2): 630-653.

2021, The Impact of Export Promotion with Matchmaking on Export and Service outsourcing  (slide) (journal), Review of International Economics 29(5): 1418-1450. (previously titled "Do Trade Fairs Promote Export?") 

                   Related article: RIETI in Japanese; RIETI in English; VoxEU;

                        RIETI2 in Japanese; RIETI2 in English; JEF 

                   Non-technical summary: in Japanese

2021, Trade-off between job losses and the spread of COVID-19 in Japan (with Kisho Hoshi, Hiroyuki Kasahara, Michio Suzuki, Satoshi Tanaka), Japanese Economic Review 72(4): 683-716.

Working Papers:

2025, Decomposing the Effect of SNAP (slide)

2022, The Values of Export Promotion: The Case of the Canton Fair during the SARS Epidemic (slide) (with Xue Bai and Hong Ma)

                  Non-technical summary: in Japanese

2024, Estimating Firm-level Production Functions with Spatial Dependence in Output, Input, and Productivity (with Pao-Li Chang, Bo Lin Ng, and Zhenlin Yang)

                  Non-technical summary: in Japanese

Work in Progress:

2025, Multinational Firm Innovation and Affiliate Sourcing Decisions (with Eric Bond, Trang Hoang, and Yan Ma)

2023, Impact of Trade and Structural Change in African Lions (with Paul Ko and Karim Nchare)

2020, Trade Agreements and Protectionism's Shadow: Evidence from Japan (with Leo Saenger)

Book Chapter:

2017, Chapter 10-B of Tackling Gender Inequality in the Western Hemisphere (with Anna Ivanova and Joyce Wong), in Women, Work, and Economic Growth: Leveling the Playing Field, edited by Kalpana Kochhar, Sonali Jain-Chandra, and Monique Newiak, International Monetary Fund

  (Original title of the paper: Female Labor Force Participation Puzzle: The Case of Costa Rica)

Others:

2020, Export Trade Fairs and Coronavirus, RIETI Policy Update

Dormant Working Papers: 

2017, The Impact of Rana Plaza Collapse on Global Retailers (with Laura Boudreau and Mari Tanaka)

2011, Trade, Unemployment, and Reallocation with Search Friction