International Trade, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics, Japanese Economy

• International Trade and Wage Inequality (in Japanese), Tokyo: Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute, 2011.

• "Exchange Rate Regimes and Wage Comovements in a Ricardian Model with Money," with Jiaren Pang and Yao Tang, Journal of International Economics, 102 (2016), 96-109.  [Download at ScienceDirect]  (Supplementary Appendix)
  
  
• "The Impact of Trade Margins on the Skill Premium: Evidence from Mexico," with Manoj Atolia, Journal of Policy Modeling, 38 (2016), 895-915.  [Download at ScienceDirect]  (Supplementary Appendix)
  
  
• "A Survey of Trade and Wage Inequality: Anomalies, Resolutions, and New Trends," Journal of Economic Surveys, 28 (2014), 169-193.  [Download at Wiley]
  
  
• "Is a Skill Intensity Reversal a Mere Theoretical Curiosum? Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico," Economics Letters, 112 (2011), 151-154.  [Download at ScienceDirect]
  
  
• "Variety-Skill Complementarity: A Simple Resolution of the Trade-Wage Inequality Anomaly," Economic Theory, 46 (2011), 297-325.  [Download at SpringerLink]
  
  
• "Fixed Cost, Number of Firms, and Skill Premium: An Alternative Source for Rising Wage Inequality," Economics Letters, 108 (2010), 141-144.  [Download at ScienceDirect]

• "Factor Intensity Reversals Redux," with Kozo Kiyota.  (08/07/2017 version)
  
  
• "A Simple Model of Competition Policies, Trade, and the Skill Premium."  (04/04/2017 version)
  
  
• "Entry Costs, Task Variety, and Skill Flexibility: A Simple Theory of (Top) Income Skewness," with Manoj Atolia.  (04/21/2015 version)
• [Earlier titles: "Task Variety and Skill Flexibility: A Simple Unified Theory of Between- and Within-group Inequality," "Fixed Costs, Task Variety, and Skill Flexibility: A Simple Unified Theory of Below- and Within-top Inequality."]
  
  
• "The Extensive Margin of International Trade in a Transition Economy: The Case of Mongolia," with Chingunjav Amarsanaa.  (07/30/2012 version)
• [Earlier title: "The Extensive Margin of International Trade: The Case of Mongolia."]

• "Does Yuan Appreciation Weaken the Increase in Exporters due to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from Chinese Firm-Product Data," with Zhe Chen.
  
  
• "Job Rotation or Specialization? A Dynamic Matching Model Analysis," with Morimitsu Kurino.
  
  
• "Competition Policy and Brain Drain: An Alternative Rationale for Regulation," with Dongsoo Shin.