MORI Tomoya

Spatial Economics, Urban and Regional Economics

• Development of Quantitative Framework for Regional Economy Based on the Theory of Economic Agglomeration (June 7, 2022 - May 31, 2025)
• Agglomeration-based Framework for Empirical and Policy Analyses of Regional Economies (January 7, 2019 - June 30, 2021)
• An Empirical Framework for Studying Spatial Patterns and Causal Relationships of Economic Agglomeration (June 27, 2016 - May 31, 2018)
• Formation of Economic Regions and its Mechanism: Theory and evidence (April 8, 2014 - March 31, 2016)
• Formation of Economic Agglomerations and the Emergence of Order in their Spatial Patterns: Theory, evidence, and policy implications (September 13, 2011 - August 31, 2013)

1996 Ph.D., Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania
1990 B.S., Civil Engineering, Gifu University

2012 - present Visiting Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo
2009 - present Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER), Kyoto University
1999 Visiting Fellow, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université catholique de Louvain
1996 Associate Professor, KIER, Kyoto University

• "On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations," Journal of Urban Economics 89: 1-20 (2015) (with T. E. Smith)
• "A probabilistic modeling approach to the detection of industrial agglomerations," Journal of Economic Geography 14(3): 547-588 (2014) (with T. E. Smith)
• "Increasing returns in transportation and the formation of hubs," Journal of Economic Geography 12(4): 877-897 (2012)
• "An industrial agglomeration approach to central place and city size regularities," Journal of Regional Science 51(4), 694-731 (2011) (with T.E. Smith).
• "The Number-Average Size Rule: a new empirical relationship between industrial location and city size," Journal of Regional Science 48, 165-211 (2008) (with K. Nishikimi and T.E. Smith).
• "Monocentric versus polycentric models in urban economics," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 754-217 (2008).
• "A divergence statistic for industrial localization," Review of Economics and Statistics 87(4), 635-651 (2005) (with K.Nishikimi and T.E.Smith).
• "Skills, agglomeration, and segmentation," European Economic Review 49, 201-225 (2005) (with A.Turrini).
• "Spatial distribution of economic activities in Japan and China," in J.V.Henderson and J.-F. Thisse (eds.), Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics Vol.4, North-Holland (2004) (with M.Fujita, J.V.Henderson, Y.Kanemoto).
• "Economies of transport density and industrial agglomeration," Regional Science and Urban Economics 32, 167-200 (2002) (with K.Nishikimi).
• "On the evolution of hierarchical urban systems," European Economic Review 43, 209-251 (1999) (with M.Fujita and P.Krugman).
• Structural stability and the evolution of urban systems, Regional Science and Urban Economics 27, 399-442 (1997) (with M.Fujita).
• "A modeling of megalopolis formation: the maturing of city systems," Journal of Urban Economics 42, 133-157 (1997).
• "The role of ports in the making of major cities: self-organization and hub-effect," Journal of Development Economics 49, 93-120 (1996) (with M.Fujita).