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Current Position
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
hayato.kato[at]econ.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Research Interests                
International Trade; Economic Geography
                                                                                                     
Publications
  1. Is Environmental Tax Harmonization Desirable in Global Value Chains?, with   Haitao    Cheng and Ayako Obashi , The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020. OPEN ACCESS. [WP]; [SSRN]; [Slides].
  2. Do Vertical Spillovers Differ by Investors’ Productivity? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam ,  with Bin Ni,   Review of Development Economics, 2020. OPEN ACCESS . [WP]; [SSRN].
  3. Production Location of Multinational Firms under Transfer Pricing: The Impact of the Arm's Length Principle ,  with Hirofumi Okoshi,   International Tax and Public Finance, 26(4), 2019, 835-871. [WP]; [SSRN]; [Slides].
  4. Market Size in Globalization, with Toshihiro Okubo,   Journal of International Economics, 111, 2018, 34-60. [WP]; [SSRN]; [Slides].
  5. Lobbying and Tax competition in an Oligopolistic Industry: A Reverse Home Market Effect,   Spatial Economic Analysis,   13(3),  2018,   276-295. [WP]; [SSRN]; [Slides].     ERRATUM: on p.6, the inequality of the second term in Eq. (7) is positive (>0), not negative (<0).
  6. The Importance of Government Commitment in Attracting Firms: A Dynamic Analysis of Tax Competition in an Agglomeration Economy,  European Economic Review, 74(C), 2015, 57-78. [SSRN]; [Slides].    ERRATUM: on p.65, in the 6th paragraph, ``k is small enough for the denominator to always be negative (not positive).'' 
                                                                             
Working Papers
  1. Production Dynamics in Multi-Product Firms' Exporting, with Hayakawa, K., Matsuura, T., and Mukunoki, H., Feb, 2020.
  2. Does It Matter Where You Invest? The Impact of FDI on Domestic Job Creation and Destruction, with  Yang Liu and Bin Ni, Feb, 2020. [Japanese non-technical summary]
  3. Economic Integration and Agglomeration of Multinational Production with Transfer Pricing, with Hirofumi Okoshi, June 2019.  [SSRN]
  4. The Impact of a Natural Disaster on Foreign Direct Investment and Vertical Linkages,  with Toshihiro Okubo, June 2017. [SSRN]

Work in Progress​
  1. Under construction.

Comments
  1. Comments on "Competition Effects and Industrial Productivity: Lessons from Japanese Industry" by Masahito Ambashi,   Asian Economic Papers, 16(3), 2017, 253-255.
                                                                             
Presentations at International Conferences
  • 2020:     Korean Economic Review International Conference@Online
  • 2019:     International Institute of Public Finance@U    of Glasgow;   Asia Pacific Trade Seminars@U. of Tokyo; Australasian Trade Workshop@RMIT U;  ERIA Microdata Project@Westin Hotel, Bali
  • 2018:   International Institute of Public Finance@U. of Tampere; Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics@Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg;    Australasian Trade Workshop@U. of Auckland 
  • 2017:   International Symposium of Urban Economics and Public Economics@Osaka U;    Asia Pacific Trade Seminars@Foreign Trade U, Hanoi;    China Meeting of the Econometric Society@Wuhan U


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Last updated: 2020/08/12​