FURUSAWA, Taiji

Name / Position
FURUSAWA, Taiji / Professor
Website
furusawa@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1994 | Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
1993 | M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
1989 | M.A., Economics, Hitotsubashi University (Japan) |
1987 | B.A., Economics, Hitotsubashi University |
Professional Experience
2018-Current | Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo |
2005-2018 | Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University |
2003-2005 | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University |
1997-2003 | Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Yokohama National University |
1995-1997 | Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Fukushima University |
1994-1995 | Lecturer, Department of Economics, Brandeis University |
Professional Experience - Visiting
2010-2012 | Research Associate (Abe Fellowship), Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University |
2001-2002 | Visiting Scholar (Fulbright research grant), Boston University |
Research Field
International Trade, Applied Microeconomics
Research Theme
Production networks and global value chain
Financial imperfection and international trade
Publications
Articles - selected
- “Transfer Pricing Regulation and Tax Competition”, (with Jay Pil Choi and Jota Ishikawa), forthcoming in Journal of International Economics, doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2020.103367.
- “The Welfare Effect of Foreign Productivity and Quality Growth: A Quantitative Analysis” (with Yoichi Sugita), The International Economy, 20, 2020.
- “International Trade and Income Inequality” (with Hideo Konishi and Tran Lam Anh Duong), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 122(3), 993-1026, 2020.
- “The Economic Impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: What Have We Learned from CGE Simulation?” (with John Gilbert and Robert Scollay), World Economy, 41, 831-865, 2018.
- “A Race beyond the Bottom: The Nature of Bidding for a Firm,” (with Kazumi Hori and Ian Wooton), International Tax and Public Finance, 22, 452-475, 2015.
- “Globalization, Financial Development, and Income Inequality” (with Hiroshi Daisaka and Noriyuki Yanagawa), Pacific Economic Review, 19(5), 612-633, 2014.
- “Dynamic Free Trade Networks: Some Numerical Results” (with Hiroshi Daisaka), Review of International Economics, 22(3), 469-487, 2014.
- “Threats or Promises? A Built-in Mechanism of Gradual Reciprocal Trade Liberalization,” (with Takashi Kamihigashi), Japanese Economic Review, 63(2), 259-279, 2012.
- “Contributing or Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy,” (with Hideo Konishi), Theoretical Economics, 6(2), 219-256, 2011.
- “Global Dynamics in Repeated Games with Additively Separable Payoffs,” (with Takashi Kamihigashi), Review of Economic Dynamics, 13(4), 899-918, 2010.
- “WTO as Moral Support,” Review of International Economics, 17(2), 327-337, 2009.
- “Gradual Cooperation in the Existence of Outside Options,” (with Toshikazu Kawakami), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 68(2), 378-389, 2008.
- “Free Trade Networks,” (with Hideo Konishi), Journal of International Economics, 72(2), 310-335, 2007.
- “Free Trade Networks with Transfers,” (with Hideo Konishi), Japanese Economic Review, 56(2), 144-164, 2005.
- “A welfare Decomposition in Quasi-Linear Economies,” (with Hideo Konishi), Economics Letters, 85(1), 29-34, 2004.
- “Tariffs versus Quotas in the Presence of Imperfect Competition and Cross-Border Externalities,” (with Keisaku Higashida and Jota Ishikawa), Canadian Journal of Economics, 37(2), 445-458, 2004.
- “Bargaining with Stochastic Disagreement Payoffs,” (with Quan Wen), International Journal of Game Theory, 31(4), 571-591, 2002.
- “Disagreement Points in Trade Negotiations,” (with Quan Wen), Journal of International Economics, 57, 133-150, 2002.
- “Flexibility of disagreement actions in negotiations,” (with Quan Wen), International Journal of Game Theory, 30(1), 19-39, 2001.
- “Strategic Delegation and Delay in Negotiations over the Bargaining Agenda,” (with Michael Conlin) Journal of Labor Economics, 18(1), 55-73, 2000.
- “The Negotiation of Sustainable Tariffs,” Journal of International Economics, 48(2), 321-345, 1999.
- “Adjustment Costs and Gradual Trade Liberalization,” (with Edwin Lai) Journal of International Economics, 49, 333-361, 1999.