Working Papers:

• The Economic Dynamics of City Structure: Evidence from Hiroshima's Recovery.  2024 (with Kohei Takeda).

  • Last update: April 2024. First draft posted in January 2023 (formerly titled as "History versus Expectations in the Spatial Economy: Lessons from Hiroshima").
     

• Persistent Stigma in Space: 100 Years of Japan's Invisible Race and Their Neighborhoods.  2023 (with Yasuhiro Sato, Yamagishi is the first author).

  • Last update: April 2024. First draft posted in February 2022 (formerly titled as "Measuring Discrimination in Spatial Equilibrium: 100 Years of Japan's Invisible Race").
  • Revision requested at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
    
    

• Off-the-Job Learning in Cities.  2023.

  • Last update: November 2023. First draft posted in October 2022.
        

• Public Goods Provision, Preferences over Public Finance, and Distributional Effects. 2024 (with Daiki Kishishita and Tomoko Matsumoto).

  • Last update: January 2024. First draft posted in August 2021 (formerly titled as "More Public Goods, Larger Government, and More Redistribution.").   

Journal Publications:

• Overconfidence, Income-Ability Gap, and Preferences for Income Equality  2023 (with Daiki Kishishita and Tomoko Matsumoto).
  European Journal of Political Economy, 77, Article 102279.

  • Media coverage: PHYS, The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (日刊工業新聞) (In Japanese)
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• Do Supermajority Rules Really Deter Extremism? The Role of Electoral Competition. 2022 (with Daiki Kishishita).
  Journal of Theoretical Politics, 34(1), 127-144.

  • [Working paper version]  (with an alternative model and additional results)
     

• Minimum Wages and Housing Rents: Theory and Evidence. 2021.
  Regional Science and Urban Economics, 87, Article 103649.

  • Media coverage: Marginal Revolution, Next City,  PROMARKET,  Toyo Keizai (東洋経済) (In Japanese).
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  • Typo. In the second-to-last paragraph of Section 2.2, "... and the welfare loss is overestimated when the welfare effect is negative."
      

• Contagion of Populist Extremism. 2021  (with Daiki Kishishita).
  Journal of Public Economics, 193, Article 104324. 

  • Awarded the 22nd Moriguchi Prize (Best Paper Award among Japanese economics graduate students, ISER Osaka University). 
  • Media coverage: Toyo Keizai (東洋経済) (In Japanese). 
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• School Bullying is Positively Associated with Support for Redistribution in Adulthood. 2020.
  Economics of Education Review, 79, Article 102045. 

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• Minimum Wage Competition. 2020  (with Koichi Fukumura) .
  International Tax and Public Finance, 27, 1557-1581.  

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• Transboundary Pollution, Tax Competition, and the Efficiency of Uncoordinated Environmental Regulation. 2019. 
  Canadian Journal of Economics, 52(3), 1165-1194.  

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• A Negative Effect of Cost-Reducing Public Investment : The Role of Firms' Entry. 2019  (with Toshihiro Matsumura).
  Economic Record, 95, 81-89.

• Lobbying for Regulation Reform by Industry Leaders. 2017  (with Toshihiro Matsumura). 
  Journal of Regulatory Economics, 52(1), 63-76. 

• Long-Run Welfare Effect of Energy Conservation Regulation. 2017  (with Toshihiro Matsumura).
  Economics Letters, 154, 64-68.  

• Consumers' Misevaluation and Public Promotion. 2016.
  The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis&Policy, 16(4).

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Works in Progress: 

• Wage Spillovers across Sectors: Evidence from a Localized Public-Sector Wage Cut.  (with Tsuyoshi Goto).

  • A preliminary draft and slides are available upon request.
     

• Urbanization without Industrialization: Evidence from the US Bases in Okinawa.  (with Ikuto Aiba).

  • Received a project research grant from IER, Hitotsubashi University

Non-technical Writings in Japanese: 

I have written several non-technical Japanese articles based on my works and other academic papers. Please visit here for the list.