Research
Research
Published (peer-reviewed)
Tran, T., Morimoto, S., Shibasaki, R. (2025). Modeling global and regional economic impacts of greenhouse gas pricing on international shipping and policy implications. Ocean & Coastal Management 269, 107804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107804
Tran, T. T. T., Murong, L., Liu, L., & Shibasaki, R. (2025). AIS-based geospatial analysis on spot contract of dry bulk carriers. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 59, 101315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2025.101315
Matsuyama, R., Sugimura, Y., Shibasaki, R., & Tran, T. T. T. (2024). Scenario analysis on CO2 emission reductions in hinterland transport of Japan through intermodal logistics network simulation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 458, 142503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142503
Tran, T., Goto, H., & Matsuda, T. (2021). The Impact of China’s Tightening Environmental Regulations on International Waste Trade and Logistics. Sustainability, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020987 (日本海運経済学会 2021 年国際交流賞受賞）
Discussion Paper/Thesis
Tran Thi Thu Trang (March, 2023). “On the Costs of International Trade and Investment” Ph.D Dissertation. Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo. (Full Paper)
Tran Thi Thu Trang, 2014. “Bilateral Investment Treaties Expropriation and Skill Gap” Unpublished master’s thesis. Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo.
三浦, 憲 & 櫻井, 武司 & Tran Thi Thu Trang, 2012. "海外進出の決定要因及び現地法人のパフォーマンスに関する実証分析－－日本の食品関連企業の海外直接投資," ディスカッションペーパー№ 573,一橋大学経済研究.
Working Paper/Conference Paper
Arctic Shipping and Global GHG Pricing (with R. Shibasaki)
2025/5/25: International Maritime Economic Association, 25-27 June 2025, Bergen, Norway.
2025/5/15: The 5th International Symposium on Sustainable Logistics, Green Deal, May 15-16, Toros University, Mersin, Turkiye (Keynote Speaker).
2025/3/13: ArCS II Final Symposium, 13-14 March 2025, Tachikawa, Japan.
2025/2/18: The 39th International Symposium on the Okhotsk Sea & Polar Oceans, 16-19 February 2025, Mombetsu, Japan.
2025/11/29: Economic Impacts of Arctic Shipping with Sustainability Workshop, 29 November 2024, University of Tokyo, Japan.
2024/12/1: The Applied Regional Science Conference 37th Annual Meeting (ARSC 2024), 30 November- 1 December 2024, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan.
2024/8/6: "Global GHG Pricing in Shipping Sector and Arctic Shipping: Carbon Levy vs. Emission Trading System", The 10th International Conference on Transportation & Logistics (T-LOG 2024), 6-7 August 2024, Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka
Computational General Equilibrium Model with Maritime Route Choice (with R. Shibasaki)
2024/12/22: Korea International Economic Association, University of Seoul, 23 December 2024, Seoul, South Korea.
2024/6/27: International Association of Maritime Economists Conference (IAME 2024), 26-28 June 2024, Valencia, Spain.
2024/2/19: The 38th International Symposium on the Okhotsk Sea and Polar Oceans 2024, 18-21 February 2024, Hokkaido, Japan.
2023/12/9: The Applied Regional Science Conference 36th Annual Meeting (ARSC 2023), 8-9 December 2023, Osaka University, Japan.
Trade Costs and Different Margins of Trade (slide)
2023/10/15: Japan Society of International Economics 82nd Annual Meeting, 14-15 October 2023, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.
2023/8/21: Ishikawa sensei’s 60th Anniversary Workshop, 21 August 2023, Shimane University, Japan.
Assessing the Economic Impacts of GHG levy in International Shipping (with S. Morimoto and R. Shibasaki)
2024/6/7: "The economic impacts of GHG pricing in international shipping", The 4th International Symposium on Sustainable Logistics, Belt and Road Initiative, 6−7 June 2024, Mersin, Turkey (online)
2023/9/7: International Association of Maritime Economists Conference (IAME 2023), 5-8 September 2023, Long Beach, USA.
Estimating the value of time in international container trade (slide)
2023/9/2: The 5th Hawai‘i-Hitotsubashi-Keio workshop on International Economics, 1-2 September 2023, University of Manoa, USA.
2023/5/20: Workshop on International Trade, FDI, and Innovation, 20 May 2023, Kobe University, Japan.
2023/3/25: International Conference on Trade, Finance Integration and Macroeconomic Dynamics & IEFS Japan 2023 Annual Meeting, 25 March 2023 (online).
2022/9/20: The 9th International Conference on Transportation & Logistics (T-LOG 2022), 15-17 September 2022, Incheon University, Korea.
2021/3/20: "Fuel Price, Slow Steaming and Seaborne Trade", Winter International Trade Seminar at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
The economic impacts of opening the Northern Sea Route under political uncertainty (with R. Shibasaki and W. Ding)
2023/3/8: The Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-7), 6-10 March 2023, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan.
2022/12/18: The Applied Regional Science Conference 36th Annual Meeting (ARSC 2022), 17-18 December 2022, University of Yamanashi, Japan.
Recent Developments in Spot Contracts for Dry Bulk Carriers: A Geospatial Analysis Using AIS Data (with R. Shibasaki)
2024/11/21: Annual Autumn Meeting of The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (JASNAOE), 21-22 November 2024, Yokohama City Port Opening Memorial Hall, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan.
AIS-Based Geographic Analysis and Loading Place Selection Modelling in the Dry Bulk Spot Shipping (with L. Murong and R. Shibasaki)
2022/9/14: International Association of Maritime Economists Conference (IAME 2022), 30 June - 1 July 2022, Busan, South Korea.
Multinational Firms’ Location Decision: Distance vs. Connectivity (full paper)
2019 /11/15 (poster): International Conference on Trade, Finance Integration and Macroeconomic Dynamics & IEFS Japan 2019 Annual Meeting, 15-16 November 2019, Kobe University, Japan.
2019/9/29：Japan Society of International Economics 78th Annual Meeting, 28-29 September 2019, IDE-Jetro, Tokyo, Japan.
2017/7/13: International Trade and FDI Workshop at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. "Multinational firm's locations in an interdependent world."
Contributing/Supervising Project
Thomas Ramminger, Trang Tran, and Ryuichi Shibasaki, Assessing the effects of trade disruptions in the Strait of Malacca on the Japanese economy, International Maritime Economic Association, 25-27 June 2025, Bergen, Norway.
Liluxin Chai, Ryuichi Shibasaki, Trang Thi Thu Tran, Global route and vessel size choice modeling for tankers transiting the Suez Canal based on AIS data
Annual Conference of International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME 2024), 26−28 June 2024, Valencia, Spain
Annual Autumn Meeting of The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (JASNAOE), 37, 335−346 (2023A-OS8-1), 27−28 November 2023 , Dejima Messe Nagasaki, Japan. https://doi.org/10.14856/conf.37.0_335
Young Lee, Ahmad Altaweel, Trang Tran, Kazuhito Mine, Yide Yang, Jang-Sok Yoon, Ryuichi Shibasaki, Hiroaki Wagatsuma, Examining Economic Impacts of Growth Rate and Tariff Reductions in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Effects of Data Aggregation Levels in GTAP Model, 18th International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC2024), 10−13 September 2024, Qinhuangdao, China
Liluxin Chai, Paulin Raison, Trang Thi Thu Tran, Ryuichi Shibasaki, Global route choice modeling for product tankers and LNG carriers using AIS data: Focusing on the Suez Canal, Biannual Conference on Infrastructure Planning and Management, Japan Society of Civil Engineers 68, 7450, 24−26 November 2023, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.
Kazunari Morikami, Ryota Wada, Trang Tran, Ryuichi Shibasaki, Natsuhiko Otsuka, A Model-Based Social Impact Evaluation of R &D topics related to Northern Sea Routes
Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-7), 6−10 March 2023, Tachikawa, Japan
International Workshop: Economic Feasibility and Challenges of Arctic Shipping, Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) II & The University of Tokyo, 10 March 2023, Tokyo, Japan
Work in progress
The geography of bunker price
Alternative fuel demand projection
Coordination Cost and Supply Chain Resilience
Fleet Productivity by Shipyards: The role of relationship specific information