Overview
The objective of this research project is to investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on economic activities/performance in Japan and to provide the Japanese government with useful information for formulating trade policy. Recently, the importance of evidence-based policy recommendation has been emphasized, but to our surprise, the economic impacts of trade liberalization have not been analyzed by applying scientific approaches in the case of Japan. In light of these observations, we undertake this project in which the impacts of a reduction in tariff rates in the 1990s and those of the introduction of free trade agreements/economic partnership agreements in the 2000s will be analyzed. Specifically, we are interested in discerning the impacts on trade, consumption, production, and employment.
July 10, 2017 - June 30, 2019
Major Research Results
2019
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 19-E-098
"Impacts of Increased Chinese Imports on Japan's Labor Market" (HAYAKAWA Kazunobu, ITO Tadashi and URATA Shujiro) - 19-E-090
"Do Japan's Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) Increase Its International Trade?" (ANDO Mitsuyo, URATA Shujiro and Yamanouchi Kenta) - 19-E-086
"Heterogeneous Impact of Import Competition on Firm organization: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data" (MATSUURA Toshiyuki) - 19-E-074
"Import Competition and Product Churning: Evidence from Japanese Plant-product-level Data" (Flora BELLONE, Cilem Selin HAZIR and MATSUURA Toshiyuki) - 19-E-064
"Tariff Pass-through in Wholesaling: Evidence from Firm-level Data in Japan" (Youngmin BAEK, HAYAKAWA Kazunobu, TSUBOTA Kenmei, URATA Shujiro and YAMANOUCHI Kenta) - 19-E-054
"Costs of Utilizing Regional Trade Agreements" (HAYAKAWA Kazunobu, JINJI Naoto, MATSUURA Toshiyuki and YOSHIMI Taiyo)
