Yiming Zhou
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
School of Economics, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Email: zhou at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Education
PhD in Information Sciences, Tohoku University, March 2015
Publications
[Urban Economics]
Toward sustainable cities: Where the electric vehicle users reside matters, Economics Letters, vol. 235, 111535, 2024
Financial crisis and within-city heterogeneity in land prices: The role of REIT penetration, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2023
Industrial specialization patterns across cities, agglomeration of skilled labour and technological growth, Spatial Economic Analysis, vol.17(3), pp. 311-331, 2022
Public housing provision and housing vacancies in Japan, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol.53, 101038, 2019
[Economic Agglomeration]
Urban agglomeration and heterogeneous firms: a synthesis of Helpman and Melitz, Journal of Economics, vol.130(3), pp. 275-296, 2020
Spatial inequality and urban costs: Revisiting the home market effect, Journal of Regional Science, vol.59(2), pp. 302-321, 2019
Home market effect, land rent, and welfare, Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2019
Heterogeneous firms, urban costs and agglomeration, International Journal of Economic Theory, vol.16(3), pp. 329-348, 2018
Urban wage inequality and economic agglomeration, Annals of Regional Science, vol.59(2), pp. 475-494, 2017
[International Trade]
Inter-industry trade and heterogeneous firms: country size matters, Japanese Economic Review, vol.74(1), pp. 57-81, 2020
Market size and wages, Economics Letters, vol.174, pp. 153-156, 2019
Incomplete contracts and allocation of residual claim along the global value chains: evidence from Japan, Applied Economics Letters, vol.27(13), pp. 1061-66, 2019
The Heckscher-Ohlin model in theory and practice, in: Xu, T. and Tu, Y. (Eds.), Intermediate International Trade: Theory and Evidence. Fudan University Press, Shanghai, pp. 22-44, 2019 (In Chinese)
Offshoring, globalization, and welfare, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol.31, pp. 75-93, 2015
To future students
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Referee services
Annals of Regional Science, International Journal of Economic Theory, International Regional Science Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Papers in Regional Science, Portuguese Economic Journal, Review of Development Economics, Review of International Economics