Professor
Tadashi Ito

My research fields are International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, Input-Output analysis. I have published articles on topics such as quality goods exports, changing nature of intra-industry trade, competitiveness of Chinese exports, global value chains servicification, and the impact of China’s rise in the world trade system. I lecture mainly on Microeconomics and International Trade.

Courses

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

Fields of Specialization

  • International trade
  • Foreign direct investment
  • Input-Output analysis

Contact

  • E-mail :
  • Office :South 2－412

Profile

  • 2016
    Professor, the Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University
  • 2012
    Research fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO (-2016)
  • 2009
    Professor, Department of Law and Economics, Okinawa University
  • 2009
    PhD, Graduate Institute, Geneva
  • 2006
    Teaching assistant and Research assistant, Graduate Institute, Geneva (-2009)
  • 2003
    MSc in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • 1997
    Mitsui Argentina, S.A.
  • 1991
    Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Headquarter (-1997)

Major Publications

  • "The smile curve: Evolving sources of value added in manufacturing" (with Richard E. Baldwin), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming
  • "Indirect trade and direct trade: Evidence from Japanese firm transaction data" (with Yukiko Umeno Saito), The World Economy, Online version June 2020, Issue version forthcoming, 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 Vézina), 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 Vézina), 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 Económicos, volumen 30, número 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: 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