Hayato Kato

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Current Position
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Visiting Researcher, Seminar for Economic Policy, LMU, Munich, Germany, 2022/03-2023/03
hayato.kato[at]econ.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Research Interests
International Trade; Economic Geography; International Taxation

Publications

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, in press, open access. [Online appendix].
The Resilience of FDI to Natural Disasters through Industrial Linkages, with Toshihiro Okubo, Environmental and Resource Economics, in press, open access. [Accepted manuscript] ; [Online appendix]; [Slides]; [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].
Economic Integration and Agglomeration of Multinational Production with Transfer Pricing, with Hirofumi Okoshi, International Economic Review, in press, open access. [Accepted manuscript]; [Online appendix]; [Slides].
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]; [Slides].
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].
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].
Market Size in Globalization, with Toshihiro Okubo, Journal of International Economics, 111, 2018, 34-60. [Accepted manuscript]; [Slides].
Lobbying and Tax competition in an Oligopolistic Industry: A Reverse Home Market Effect, Spatial Economic Analysis, 13(3), 2018, 276-295. [Accepted manuscript]; [Slides]. The publish ed version has many incorrect typsets; please look at the accepted manuscript.
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]. ERRATUM: on p.65, in the 6th paragraph, ``k is small enough for the denominator to always be negative (not positive).''

Working Papers

Production Dynamics in Multi-Product Firms' Exporting, with Hayakawa, K., Matsuura, T., and Mukunoki, H., Feb, 2020.

Work in Progress

Under construction.

Comments

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

2022: The 4th "Market Studies and Spatial Economics"@Universite Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES; Seminar@U of Bayreuth (scheduled); Seminar@U of Mainz (scheduled)
2021: Seminar@Hanyang U; Seminar@Hosei U; Market Studies and Spatial Economics@HSE; ES North America Summer@UQAM; ES Asia@Curtin U Malaysia; ES China@ Shanghai Tech U; Workshop@Kobe U; ES Europe Winter@ U of Barcelona School of Economics
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

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Last updated: 2022/5/30