Current Position
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Wakayama University
Contact
niwa[at]wakayama-u.ac.jp
Research Fields
Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Innovation, Intellectual property rights
Publications
Explaining Declining Business Dynamism: A Monetary Growth-Theoretic Approach (with Yuichi Furukawa and Tat-kei Lai), forthcoming in Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2026.
Effects of a blocking patent on R&D with endogenous survival activities, Journal of Economics 125, May 2018, 263–277.
Patent claims and economic growth, Economic Modelling 54, April 2016, 377-381.
Work in Progress