Research

Refereed Publications

・“Economic analysis of tariff integration in public transport,” Research in Transportation Economics, 66 (2017), 26-35.

・“Determination of neighborhood housing amenities: Asymmetric effects of consumers’ choices and multiple equilibria,” Papers in Regional Science, 96 (2017), 555-570.

・“Location competition in an Alonso-Mills-Muth city,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 46 (2014), 82-93.

・“Agglomeration in a city with choosy consumers under imperfect information,” Journal of Urban Economics, 76 (2013), 28-42.

・“Directional imbalance in transport prices and economic geography,” Journal of Urban Economics, 69 (2011), 92-102.

・"Spatial Competition of Governments in the Investment on Public Facilities," in Public Facilities Planning, L. Kiminami, K. Button and P. Nijkamp (eds.) (2006), 75-108. Edward Elgar, Chelthenham.

・“Economic Geography and Endogenous Determination of Transportation Technology,” Journal of Urban Economics, 60 (2005), 498-518.

・“Spatial Competition of Governments in the Investment of Public Facilities,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 34 (2004), 455-488.

・“International Trade and Inefficiency in the Location of Production,” Journal of Japanese and International Economies, 17 (2003), 134-152.

・“On the Welfare Effect of Import Tariff within the Economic Union,” Japanese Economic Review, 50 (1999), 291-308.

・“On the Optimal Policy of Infrastructure Provision across Regions,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 28 (1998), 213-235.

・“Self-Defeating Regional Concentration,” with Kiminori Matsuyama. Review of Economic Studies, 65 (1998), 211-234.

・“Labor Mobility and Regional Allocation of Infrastructure Investment,” in Development Strategy from Regional Perspectives, K. Ohno and N. Hamaguchi (eds.) (1998), 89-118. Institute of Developing Economies.

・“On the Effect of Trade Liberalization upon Collusion,” Keio Economic Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 (1997), 33-50.

・“Unified Treatment of the Segment and the Circular Market Models,” with Andre de Palma, in Does Economic Space Matter? eds. by Hiroshi Ohta and Jacques F. Thisse, St. Martin's Press (1993).

 

Other Publications

・“Role of Urban System in Industrialization: The Case of Europe,” Shakai-Kagaku-Kiyou, 45 (1996), 77-95, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo.

 

Working Papers

・“Economic analysis of tariff integration in public transport,” CSIS Discussion Paper, No. 135 (2014).

・“Endogenous determination of a residential landscape: Asymmetric effects of consumers' choices and multiple equilibria,” CSIS Discussion Paper, No. 124 (2013).

・"Spatial competition in a city: Hotelling revisited in an Alonso-Mills-Muth city," CSIS Discussion Paper, No. 116 (2012).

・“Agglomeration due to the imperfect information revisited,” CSIS Discussion Paper, No. 108 (2011).

・“Is the Transport Sector Too Large? Welfare Analysis of the Trade Model with a Transport Sector,” CSIS Discussion Paper, No. 92 (2008).

・“Asymmetric Transport Costs and Economic Geography,” CSIS Discussion Paper, No. 87 (2007).

・“Trade and Gains from Trade at the Extensive and at the Intensive Margins,” with Kristian Behrens, CSIS Discussion Paper, No. 85 (2007).

・“Deindustrialization Caused by Dynamic Comparative Advantage,” Working Papers, 65 (1996), College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo.

・“International Trade and "Bad" Regional Concentration,” Working Papers, 54 (1995), College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo.