OKUBO Toshihiro

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

• Revitalization of the Japanese Non-metropolitan Economies (February 12, 2024 - July 31, 2026)

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

• “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).