Refereed papers

  1. Labor heterogeneity, agglomeration economies and regional labor markets, Kokumin-keizai 162, 1-20, (1999) (in Japanese) (労働力の多様性、集積の経済と地域労働市場, 「国民経済」第162号, 1-20, (1999))

  2. An analysis of a rental housing search in a city, JCER Economic Journal 41, 132-150, (2000) (in Japanese with English summary) (都市内部における賃貸住宅探し行動の分析, 「日本経済研究」第41号, 132-150, (2000))

  3. Search theory and the wage curve, Economics Letters 66, 93-98, (2000).

  4. Labor heterogeneity in an urban labor market, Journal of Urban Economics 50, 313-337, (2001).

  5. On labor policies affecting investment in general human capital, Labour 17, 599-622, (2003).(with H. Sugiura)

  6. City structure, search and workers' job acceptance behavior, Journal of Urban Economics 55, 350-370, (2004).

  7. Migration, frictional unemployment, and welfare improving labor policies, Journal of Regional Science 44, 773-793, (2004).

  8. Population concentration, urbanization, and demographic transition, Journal of Urban Economics 58, 45-61, (2005).(with K. Yamamoto)

  9. Bargaining power of landlords and underdevelopment in a system of cities, Papers in Regional Science 84, 239-250, (2005).

  10. `Brain drain' without migration: Capital market integration and capital-skill complementarities, Economics Bulletin 18 No.1, 1-9 (2006). (with K. Behrens)

  11. A note on unemployment and capital tax competition, Journal of Urban Economics 60, 350-356 (2006). (with H. Ogawa and T. Tamai)
    [There is an error: in the third paragraph of page 352: ``...F(Li,Ki) is assumed to be homogeneous of degree one and strictly concave.'' &rArr ``...F(Li,Ki) is assumed to be strictly concave.'']
    [longer version: Unemployment and capital tax competition, DEE Discussion paper No.04-2, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, (2004). [download]]

  12. Economic geography, fertility and migration, Journal of Urban Economics 61, 372-387 (2007).

  13. Competing for capital when labor is heterogeneous, European Economic Review 51, 2054-2079 (2007). (with J.-F. Thisse)

  14. Technological progress, income inequality and fertility, Journal of Population Economics 21, 135-157 (2008). (with K. Tabata and K. Yamamoto)

  15. Welfare properties of spatial competition with location dependent costs, Regional Science and Urban Economics 38, 32-48 (2008). (with H. Aiura)

  16. OLS estimation and the t test revisited in rank-size rule regression, Journal of Regional Science 48, 691-716 (2008). (with Y. Nishiyama and S. Osada)

  17. International commodity taxation in the presence of unemployment, Journal of Public Economics 93, 939-949 (2009). (with S. Moriconi)

  18. Capital tax competition and search unemployment, Papers in Regional Science 88, 749-764 (2009).

  19. Migration, skill formation, and the wage structure, Journal of Regional Science 51, 5-30 (2011). (with K. Behrens)

  20. On the impact of trade on the industrial structures of nations, International Journal of Economic Theory 7, 93-109 (2011). (with D. Oyama, T. Tabuchi and J.-F. Thisse)

  21. Trade impacts on skill acquisition via variety expansion, forthcoming in Japanese Economic Review (2011). (with K. Yamamoto)

  22. Market size and entrepreneurship, forthcoming in Journal of Economic Geography (2011). (with T. Tabuchi and K. Yamamoto)


Books

  1. Spatial Economics, Yuhikaku (2011). (with T. Tabuchi and K. Yamamoto, in Japanese) (佐藤泰裕・田渕隆俊・山本和博「空間経済学」有斐閣 (2011).)


Chapters in books and other articles

  1. Urbanization and poverty trap, In: L. M. De Smet (eds.) Focus on Urbanization Trends (NOVA Science publisher) (2009). (with K. Yamamoto)

  2. Book review: Yves Zenou, Urban Labor Economics , Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, Regional Science and Urban Economics 40, 79-80 (2009).


Papers submitted to journals and discussion papers



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