OKUBO Toshihiro

OKUBO Toshihiro

OKUBO Toshihiro

Faculty Fellow

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University

Activities at RIETI

Expertise

International trade, Globalization, Economic geography, Regional economy, Digitalization

Research Projects

Education

Ph.D. (Economics, International Relations), Graduate Institute Geneva, University of Geneva

Selected Publications and Papers

  • “The Bright and Dark Sides of a Central Bank’s Financial Support to Local Banks after a Natural Disaster: Evidence from the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923 Japan”, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2023 (with T. Okazaki, and E. Strobl).
  • “'By a Silken Thread': regional banking integration and credit reallocation during Japan's Lost Decade”, Journal of International Economics, 137, 103579. 2022, (with M. Hoffmann).
  • “Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923”, Journal of Economic History, 79(1) pp.1-31. 2019 (with T. Okazaki and E. Strobl).
  • “Natural Disasters and Spatial Heterogeneity in Damages: The Birth, Life and Death of Manufacturing Plants”, Journal of Economic Geography, 19(2) pp.373-408. 2019 (with M.A. Cole, R.J. Elliott, and E. Strobl).
  • “Why are firms that export cleaner? International trade, abatement and environmental emissions”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 91, pp.166-183.2018 (with R. Forslid and K-H Ulltveit-Moe).
  • “Market Size in Globalization”, Journal of International Economics, 111, 34-60. 2018 (with H. Kato).
  • “Trade Liberalization, Transboundary Pollution, and Market Size” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 4 (3), Part 1, 927-957. 2017, (with R. Forslid, M. Sanctuary).
  • “The Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Firms: A Spatial Analysis”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 65(2), pp.290-309. 2013 (with M.A. Cole, R.J. Elliott and Y. Zhou).
  • “On the Development Strategy of Countries of Intermediate Size-An Analysis of Heterogeneous Firms in a Multi-region Framework”, European Economic Review 56, pp.747-756. 2012 (with R. Forslid).
  • “The Spatial Selection of Heterogeneous Firms”, Journal of International Economics 82(2), pp.230-237. 2010 (with P. Picard and J-F Thisse).
  • “Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography: Spatial Selection and Sorting”. Journal of Economic Geography, 6, pp.323-346. 2006. (with R.E. Baldwin).