ProfessorITO, Tadashi

Courses

• Microeconomics
• International Trade
• International Economics
• Current Economic Issues in the Global Economy
• Basic Seminar Ⅰ・Ⅱ
• Advanced Seminar Ⅰ・Ⅱ
• Graduation Thesis

Seminar

Profile

Research content

I am currently working on China-US trade war, Economic impacts of China’s rapidly growing presence in the World Economy, effects of Foreign Direct Investment on host countries, and so on. In the past, I studied price or quality goods competition, servicification of industries, valued-added international trade.

Major Publications

• "The smile curve: Evolving sources of value added in manufacturing" (with Richard E. Baldwin), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, Volume 54, Issue 4, pp. 1842?1880, DOI: 10.1111/caje.12555
• "FDI, ownership structure, and productivity" (with Ayumu Tanaka), Japan and the World Economy, 2022, Issue 64, doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2021.101173
• "Lerner meets Metzler: Tariff pass-through of worldwide trade" (with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Hiroshi Mukunoki), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, March 2022, Volume 63, doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2021.101173
• "Indirect trade and direct trade: Evidence from Japanese firm transaction data" (with Yukiko Umeno Saito), The World Economy, February 2021, Volume 44, Issue 2, pp. 444-461, doi.org/10.1111/twec.12997
• "R&D and patenting activities of foreign firms in China: The case of Japan" (with Chih-Hai Yang and Toshiyuki Matsuura), Japan and the World Economy, Volume 49, March 2019, Pages 151-160, doi.org/10.1016/j.japwor.2018.11.001
• "Did the least developed countries benefit from duty-free quota-free access to the Japanese market?" (with Takahide Aoyagi), Japan and the World Economy, Volume49 March 2019, Pages 32-29, doi.org/10.1016/j.japwor.2018.09.002
• "Heckscher-Ohlin: Evidence from virtual trade in value added" (with Lorenzo Rotunno and Pierre-Louis Vezina), Review of International Economics, Volume 25, Issue 3, August 2017, DOI: 10.1111/roie.12230
• "On the stability of intra-industry trade" (with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Toshihiro Okubo), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 45(2017) 1-12, May 2017
• "Managers’ Nationalities and FDI’s Productivity: Evidence from Korean Firm-Level Data" (with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Chin Hee Hahn), Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 25, Issue 6, 1 December 2016, Pages 941?953, DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtw007
• "Product Quality and Intra-Industry Trade" (with Toshihiro Okubo), Singapore Economic Review, Volume 61, Issue 04, September 2016, DOI: 10.1142/S0217590815501064
• "Production fragmentation, upstreamness, and value added: Evidence from Factory Asia 1990?2005" (with Pierre-Louis Vezina), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 42(2016) 1-9, December 2016
• "The Impact of the Euro on the Quality of Trade: Evidence from the European Union" (with Toshihiro Okubo), The Manchester School, Volume 84, Issue 4, pages 506-527, July 2016, DOI: 10.1111/manc.12112
• "Trade Creation Effects of Regional Trade Agreements: Tariff Reduction versus Non-tariff Barrier Removal" (with Kazunobu Hayakawa and Fukunari Kimura), Review of Development Economics, Volume 20, Issue 1, pages 317?326, February 2016, DOI:10.1111/rode.12208
• "On the Variety of Mexico’s Export Goods", Estudios Economicos, volumen 30, numero 2, julio - diciembre de 2015, pp 184-218
• "Empirical Analysis on the Dynamics of Tourists with Simple Stochastic Model - Case of Okinawa" (with Roki Iwahashi), Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp89-103, July 2015
• "Export Platform Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence", The World Economy, Volume 36, Issue 5, May 2013, Pages 563?581
• "New Aspects of Intra-industry Trade in EU Countries" (with Toshihiro Okubo),　The World Economy, Volume 35, Issue 9, pp1126-1138, September 2012
• "Quality competition versus price competition goods: An empirical classification" (with Richard E. Baldwin), Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 26, No. 1 (March 2011), pp. 110-135
• "NAFTA and productivity convergence between Mexico and the USA", Latin American Journal of Economics (formerly Cuadernos de Economia), Vol. 47 (MAYO), PP. 15-55, 2010

Others

・Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Grant number: 23H00817, Period: 2023-2026, Investigator
・Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) Grant number: 22H00063, Period: 2022-2025, Investigator
・Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Grant number: 20H01501, Period: 2020-2023, Principal Investigator
・Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Grant number: 19H01481, Period: 2019-2021, Investigator
・Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant number: 17K03707, Period: 2018-2020, Principal Investigator
・Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant number: 26380354, Period: 2014-2017, Principal Investigator
・Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Grant number: 22330080, Period: 2013, Investigator

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