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From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo

Yamasaki, Junichi:Kentaro Nakajima:Kensuke Teshima
E-2020-02 TDB-CAREE Discussion Paper Series (2023/02/01)

Whether transaction costs to assemble or split land can persistently hinder urban land use remains unknown. Constructing a 100 m*100 m-cell-level dataset of central Tok…

  • 経済学
  • Satellite-Based Vehicle Flow Data to Assess Local Economic Activities

    Go, Eugenia:Kentaro Nakajima:Yasuyuki Sawada:Kiyoshi Taniguchi
    F-1209 CIRJE Discussion Paper Series (2023/01/01)

    Spatially and seasonally granular measures of local economic activities are increasingly required in a variety of economic analyses. We propose using novel vehicle density data obtained from daytime satellite images to quantify the local economic activity involving human and goods traffic flows. Validation exercises show that vehicle …

    • 経済学
    • Invention by Collage Graduates in Science and Engineering during Japan's Industrialization

      Yamaguchi, Shotaro:Hiroyasu Inoue:Kentaro Nakajima:Tetsuji Okazaki:Yukiko Umeno Saito:Serguey Braguinsky
      22-E-104 RIETI Discussion Paper Series (2022/11/01)

      During Japan's industrialization from the late 19th to the first half of the 20th century, the adoption of foreign technologies was increasingly complemented by domestic…

      • 経済学
      • イノベーションの経済地理分析
      • 知識のスピルオーバー
      • The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data

        Miyauchi, Yuhei: Kentaro Nakajima: Stephen J. Redding
        No. 28497 NBER Working Paper (2022/04/01)

        • 経済学
        • Working Paper(outside IIR)

          URL:
          https://www.nber.org/papers/w28497

          The Role of Face-to-face Contact in Innovation: The Evidence from the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Japan

          Inoue, Hiroyasu: Kentaro Nakajima: Tetsuji Okazaki: Yukiko Umeno Saito
          22-E-026 RIETI Discussion Paper Series (2022/03/01)

          • 経済学
          • イノベーションの経済分析
          • イノベーションの経済地理分析
          • 知識のスピルオーバー
          • イノベーション
          • On the Use of Satellite-Based Vehicle Flows Data to Assess Local Economic Activity: The Case of Philippine Cities

            Go, Eugenia: Kentaro Nakajima: Yasuyuki Sawada: Kiyoshi Taniguchi
            No. 652 ADB Economics Working Paper Series (2022/03/01)

            • 経済学
            • Local Labor Market Effects of Chinese Imports and Offshoring: Evidence from Matched-Foreign Affiliate-Domestic Parent-Domestic Plant Data in Japan

              Kiyota, Kozo: Kentaro Nakajima: Miho Takizawa
              22-E-13 RIETI Discussion Paper Series (2022/03/01)

              • 経済学
              • Estimating the Impact of Land Use Regulation on Land Price: At the Kink Point of Building Height Limits in Fukuoka

                Nakajima, Kentaro: Keisuke Takano
                21-E-88 RIETI Discussion Paper Series 21-E-88 (2021/10/01)

                • 経済学
                • Do sourcing networks make firms global? Microlevel evidence from firm-to-firm transaction networks

                  Itoh, Ryo: Kentaro Nakajima
                  『The Japanese Economic Review』 Vol. 72 Issue 1 pp. 65-96 (2020/11/16)

                  This study investigates how the structure of a domestic firm-to-firm transaction network influences the foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions of embedded firms in th…

                  • 経済学
                  • Measuring the Sorting Effect of Migration on Spatial Wage Disparities in Japan

                    Nakajima, Kentaro: Ryosuke Okamoto
                    『Journal of Applied Regional Science』 Issue 23 pp. 1-23 (2019/06/01)

                    This paper measures the effect of sorting on wage disparity. We extract worker skills by estimating the wage equation using Japanese individual data. We show that the skills of workers in metropolitan areas are 9.68% higher than the skills of workers in nonmetropolitan areas. In the counterfactual situation in which there is no migrati…

                    • 経済学
                    • Agglomeration Economies in Vietnam: A Firm-Level Analysis

                      Gokan, Toshitaka: Ikuo Kuroiwa: Kentaro Nakajima
                      『 Journal of Asian Economics』 Vol. 62 pp. 52-64 (2019/06/01)

                      • 経済学
                      • Article

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                        Localization of knowledge-creating establishments

                        Inoue, Hiroyasu : Kentaro Nakajima : Yukiko Umeno Saito
                        『Japan and the World Economy』 Vol. 43 pp. 23-29 (2017/09/01)

                        This study investigates the localization of establishment-level knowledge creation using data from a Japanese patent database. Using distance-based methods, we obtain the following results. First, Japanese knowledge-creating establishments defined by patenting experience are significantly localized at the 5% level, with a localization …

                        • 経済学
                        • Book Review: Jinzai no kokusai ido to inobeshon (International Migration of Highly Skilled Workers and Innovation, by Yukiko Murakami, Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 2015)

                          Nakajima, Kentaro
                          『Social Science Japan Journal』 Vol. 20 No. 2 pp.323-325 (2017/08/01)

                          • イノベーションの経済地理分析
                          • 人材移動
                          • Article

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                            The expanding Empire and spatial distribution of economic activity: the case of Japan's colonization of Korea during the prewar period

                            Nakajima, Kentaro : Tetsuji Okazaki
                            『The Economic History Review』 Vol.71 No.2 pp. 593-616 (2017/06/09)

                            In 1910, Japan annexed Korea and integrated it into the Empire of Japan. According to its policy of assimilating colonies, the Japanese government intended to remove the tariffs between Japan and Korea, an aim which had almost been realized by 1923. The removal of the tariff barrier was supposed to improve market access between Japan a…

                            • 経済学
                            • Highways and Industrial Development in the Peripheral Regions of China

                              Xu, Hangtian : Kentaro Nakajima
                              『Papers in Regional Science』 Vol.96 No.2 pp. 325-356 (2017/06/01)

                              This study estimates how highways affected industrial development in China's peripheral regions between 1998 and 2007, a period during which China experienced rapid grow…

                              • 経済学
                              • The Impact of the Opening of High-Speed Rail on Innovation

                                Inoue, Hiroyasu : Kentaro Nakajima : Yukiko Saito
                                17-E-034 RIETI Discussion Paper Series (2017/03/31)

                                • 経済学
                                • Did China’s Coal Mine Regulation Positively Affect Economic Growth?

                                  Xu, Hangtian : Kentaro Nakajima
                                  『Resources Policy』 Vol.50 pp. 160-168 (2016/12/01)

                                  In response to high mortality rates and low productivity in coal mining, China began regulating coal mines in the 1990s, reshaping its coal economy. We investigate the relationship between coal mine regulation and economic growth. Using the difference-in-difference approach to compare the pre- and post-regulation periods as well as reg…

                                  • 経済学
                                  • Multi-region Job Search with Moving Costs

                                    Kawata, Keisuke : Kentaro Nakajima : Yasuhiro Sato
                                    『Regional Science and Urban Economics』 Vol.61 pp. 114-129 (2016/11/01)

                                    We develop a competitive search model involving multiple regions, geographically mobile workers, and moving costs. Equilibrium mobility patterns are analyzed and characterized, and the results indicate that shocks to a particular region, such as a productivity shock, can propagate to other regions through workers' mobility. Moreover, e…

                                    • 経済学