research

PUBLICATIONS

• "Growth of Knowledge-Intensive Sectors and Secular "Stagnation" in the Global Economy", The International Economy, 26, 1-19, 2023.
• "The Impacts of AI, Robots, and Globalization on Labor Markets: Analysis of a Quantitative General Equilibrium Trade Model", (with Shoki Kusaka and Yoichi Sugita), in Lili Yan Ing and Gene Grossman (eds.), Robots and AI: a New Economic Era, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2022.
• "The Impacts of AI, Robots, and Globalization on Labor Markets: Analysis of a Quantitative General Equilibrium Trade Model: Online Appendix", (with Shoki Kusaka and Yoichi Sugita).
• "Transfer pricing Regulation and Tax Competition", (with Jay Pil Choi and Jota Ishikawa), Journal of International Economics, 127, 103367, doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2020.103367.
• "The Welfare Effect of Foreign Productivity and Quality Growth: A Quantitative Analysis", (with Yoichi Sugita, The International Economy, 20, 2020.
• "International Trade and Income Inequality", (with Hideo Konishi and Tran Lam Anh Duong), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 122(3), 993-1026.
• "The Economic Impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: What have We Learned from CGE Simulation?", (with John Gilbert and Robert Scollay), The World Economy, 41, 831-865, 2018.
• "A Race beyond the Bottom: The Nature of Bidding for a Firm", (with Kazumi Hori and Ian Wooton), International Tax and Public Finance, 22, 452-475, 2015.
• "Globalization, Financial Development, and Income Inequality", (with Hiroshi Daisaka and Noriyuki Yanagawa), Pacific Economic Review, 19(5), 612-633, 2014.
• "Dynamic Free Trade Networks: Some Numerical Results", (with Hiroshi Daisaka), Review of International Economics, 22(3), 469-487, 2014.
• "Threats or Promises? A Built-in Mechanism of Gradual Reciprocal Trade Liberalization", (with Takashi Kamihigashi), Japanese Economic Review, 63, 259-279, 2012.
• "Contributing or Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy", (with Hideo Konishi), Theoretical Economics, 6, 219-256, 2011.
• "Global Dynamics in Repeated Games with Additively Separable Payoffs", (with Takashi Kamihigashi) Review of Economic Dynamics, 13, 899-918, 2010.
• "WTO as Moral Support", Review of International Economics, 17, 327-337, 2009.
• "Gradual Cooperation in the Existence of Outside Options", (with Toshikazu Kawakami), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 68, 378-389, 2008.
• "Tariff Revenue Competition in a Free Trade Area: The Case of Asymmetric Large Countries", (with Naoto Jinji), Review of Economic Development, 11, 300-312, 2007.
• "Free Trade Networks", (with Hideo Konishi), Journal of International Economics, 72, 310-335, 2007.
• "Free Trade Networks with Transfers", (with Hideo Konishi), Japanese Economic Review, 56, 144-164, 2005.
• "A Welfare Decomposition in Quasi-Linear Economies", (with Hideo Konishi), Economics Letters, 85 29-34, 2004.
• "Tariffs versus Quotas in the Presence of Imperfect Competition and Cross-Border Externalities", (with Keisaku Higashida and Jota Ishikawa), Canadian Journal of Economics, 37, 445-458, 2004.
• "What Information is Needed for Welfare-Enhancing Policies under International Oligoply?", (with Keisaku Higashida and Jota Ishikawa), Japan and the World Economy, 15, 2003, 31-46.
• "Bargaining with Stochastic Disagreement Payoffs", (with Quan Wen), International Journal of Game Theory, 31, 571-591, 2002.
• "Disagreement Points in Trade Negotiations", (with Quan Wen), Journal of International Economics, 57, 2002, 133-150.
• "Preferential Trade Arrangements vs. Open Regionalism: A Theoretical Analysis of APEC", in Robert Stern, ed., Issues and Options for U.S.-Japan Trade Policies, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2002, 253-267.
• "Flexibility of disagreement actions in negotiations", (with Quan Wen), International Journal of Game Theory, 30, 2001, 19-39.
• "Strategic Delegation and Delay in Negotiations over the Bargaining Agenda", (with Michael Conlin), Journal of Labor Economics, 18, 2000, 55-73.
• "The Negotiation of Sustainable Tariffs", Journal of International Economics, 48, 1999, 321-346.
• "Adjustment Costs and Gradual Trade Liberalization", (with Edwin Lai), Journal of International Economics, 49, 1999, 333-361.
• "The Optimal Penal Code vs. Infinite Nash Reversion in Trade Liberalization", Review of International Economics, 7, 1999, 673-681.

BOOK REVIEW

• Houba, Harold and Wilko Bolt, Credible Threats in Netotiations: A Game-theoretic Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002, forthcoming in Zeitschrift Fur Nationalokonomie (Journal of Economics).

WORKING PAPERS

• "Trade Liberalization, Educational Choice, and Income Distribution", (with Tetsuya Asami and Yunfang Hu), 2024.
• "Offshoring, Relationship-Specificity, and Domestic Production Networks", (with Keiko Ito, Tomohiki Inui, and Heiwai Tang), 2017.
• "International Trade and Capital Movement under Financial Imperfection," (with Noriyuki Yanagawa), 2013.
• "A Theory of Government Procrastination", (with Edwin Lai), 2013.
• "Globalization under Financial Imperfection", (with Noriyuki Yanagawa), 2012.
• "A Factor-Proportions Theory of Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity", (with Hitoshi Sato), 2008.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• "Relationship Specificity, Market Thickness and International Trade", (with Tomohiro Ara)