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Current Position
Associate Professor,   Graduate School of Economics, The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan
CESifo Research Network Fellow
hayato.kato[at]econ.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Research Interests                
International Trade;   ​Economic Geography; International Taxation
Publications
  1. Does It Matter Where You Invest? The Impact of FDI on Domestic Job Creation and Destruction, with  Yang Liu and Bin Ni, The World Economy, 46(1), 2023, 135-152, open access. [Accepted manuscript]; [Online appendix]; [Bibtex].
  2. The Resilience of FDI to Natural Disasters through Industrial Linkages, with Toshihiro Okubo,   Environmental and Resource Economics, 82(1),  2022, 177-225,   open access.  [Accepted manuscript]  ; [Online appendix]; [Slides]; [Bibtex]; [Media].   ERRATUM: The 3rd minimization problem  in Appendix A1-1, ``s.t. \tilde{a} q = z Q_u^{\mu} l^{1-\mu} (not P^{\mu} w^{1-\mu})."   This is a substantially revised version of    The Impact of a Natural Disaster on Foreign Direct Investment and Vertical Linkages,  with Toshihiro Okubo, June 2017. [SSRN].
  3. Economic Integration and Agglomeration of Multinational Production with Transfer Pricing, with   Hirofumi   Okoshi,     International  Economic Review, 63, 1325-1355, open access. [Accepted manuscript]; [Online appendix]; [Slides]; [Bibtex].
  4. Is Environmental Tax Harmonization Desirable in Global Value Chains?, with   Haitao    Cheng  and Ayako Obashi ,   The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 21(1),  2021, 379-416, open access. [Accepted manuscript]; [Bibtex]; [Slides].
  5. Do Vertical Spillovers Differ by Investors’ Productivity? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam ,  with Bin Ni,   Review of Development Economics, 24(3), 2020,  1046-1072,  open access. [Accepted manuscript]; [Bibtex].
  6. 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. [Accepted manuscript]; [Slides]; [Bibtex].
  7. Market Size in Globalization, with Toshihiro Okubo,   Journal of International Economics, 111, 2018, 34-60. [Accepted manuscript]; [Slides]; [Bibtex].
  8. Lobbying and Tax competition in an Oligopolistic Industry: A Reverse Home Market Effect,   Spatial Economic Analysis,   13(3),  2018,   276-295. [Accepted manuscript];  [Slides]; [Bibtex].   The publish ed version has many incorrect typsets; please look at the accepted manuscript. 
  9. 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. [Accepted manuscript];    [Slides]; [Bibtex].    ERRATUM: on p.65, in the 6th paragraph, ``k    is small enough for the denominator to always be negative (not positive).'' 
                                                                             
Working Papers
  1. Trade Policy and Structural Change , with   Kensuke Suzuki  and   Motoaki Takahashi, Aug 2025. 
  2. A Global Minimum Tax for Large Firms Only: Implications for Tax Competition  [Non-technical summary in Japanese], with   Andreas Haufler, Dec  2024.
  3. Tax Competition for Automation Capital  [Non-technical summary in Japanese], with Jonas Loebbing, Nov   2023.
  4. Production Dynamics in Multi-Product Firms' Exporting, with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Toshiyuki Matsuura, and Hiroshi Mukunoki, Feb   2020.

Work in Progress
  1. Bilateral Tax Treaties and Profit Shifting: Evidence from Japanese Multinationals (tentative), with  Yuting Chen, Bin Ni and Florian Unger, 2024.

Comments
  1. Comments on "Competition Effects and Industrial Productivity: Lessons from Japanese Industry" by Masahito Ambashi,   Asian Economic Papers, 16(3), 2017, 253-255.  [Accepted manuscript]
                                                                             
Presentations 
  • 2025: 17th FIW-Research Conference@Vienna U of Econ omics& Business;   IEFS Conference@Online; APTS@U Tokyo; ETSG@Politecnico di Milano​
  • 2024: Macro Economics Workshop@Osaka U; Yonsei Trade Workshop@Yonsei U; Korean Economic Review Conference@Pyeongchang;    APTS@Chulalongkorn U; ​ Seminar@Academia Sinica; ETSG@Athens U of Economics and Business; JSIE Fall Meeting@Kobe U;  First Sino-Japanese SAPCE Workshop@Osaka U; KIEA Winter Conference@U of Seoul
  • 2023:  Public Economics Seminar@LMU; Symposium of Public Economics@Virtual; Göttingen International Economics Workshop;   IIPF@Utah State; ETSG@Surrey; Seminar@Ryukoku U; Hitotsubashi-Gakushuin Conference on International Trade& FDI
  • 2022: The 4th "Market Studies and Spatial Economics"@Universite Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES;   Seminar@U of Bayreuth; Seminar@U of Mainz  ; IIPF@JKU Linz; ETSG@U of Groningen​; Seminar@Albany, SUNY; Midwest Trade Conference@U of Notre Dame


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Last updated: 2025/11/26