Work in Progress

  • "Industrial Location and City Size : Does space matter?" (with Wen-Tai Hsu and Tony E. Smith).
  • "Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration Patterns: An Application to Manufacturing Industries in Japan" (with Tony E. Smith)

Discussion Papers and Mimeographs

  • "A Probabilistic Modeling Approach to the Detection of Industrial Agglomerations : Methodological Framework," Discussion Paper No.777, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (2011) (with Tony E. Smith) (This DP is a rewriting of the methodological part of DP682 below.)
  • "Increasing Returns in Transportation and the Formation of Hubs," Discussion Paper No.770, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (2011). A version revised on June 25, 2011
  • "A Probabilistic Modeling Approach to the Detection of Industrial Agglomerations," Discussion Paper No.682, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (2009) (with Tony E. Smith). (Figures have been downsized substantially, 2010/03/02)
    (Streamlined version is available here : )
  • "A Flying Geese Model of Economic Development and Integration: Evolution of International Economy a la East Asia," Discussion Papers No.493, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (1999) (with M.Fujita).

Refereed or Invited Papers

  • "An Industrial Agglomeration Approach to Central Place and City Size Regularities," Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming (journal early view). (Dicussion Paper No.687, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, 2009, with Tony E. Smith. )
  • "A Reconsideration of the NAS Rule from an Industrial Agglomeration Perspective," Brookins-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Whasington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 175-214 (2009) (with T.E.Smith).
  • "Monocentric versus Polycentric Models in Urban Economics," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan (2008). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.754-756. http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?id=pde2008_M000368. DOI:10.1057/9780230226203.1132.
  • "The Number-Average Size Rule: A New Empirical Relationship between Industrial Location and City Size," Journal of Regional Science 48, 165-211 (2008) (with Koji Nishikimi and Tony E. Smith).
  • "A Divergence Statistic for Industrial Localization," Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(4), 635-651 (2005) (with Koji Nishikimi and Tony E. Smith).
  • "Frontiers of the New Economic Geography", Papers in Regional Science 84(3), 377-405 (2005) (with Masahisa Fujita).
  • "Transport Development and the Evolution of Economic Geography," Portuguese Economic Journal 4, 129-159 (2005) (with M.Fujita).
  • "Skills, Agglomeration, and Segmentation," European Economic Review 49, 201-225 (2005) (with Alessandro Turrini).
  • "Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Japan and China" in V.Henderson and J.-F.Thisse (eds), Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics, vol.4, North-Holland (2004) (with M.Fujita,V.Henderson, Y.Kanemoto).
  • "Economies of Transport Density and Industrial Agglomeration," Regional Science and Urban Economics 32, 167-200, 2002 (with K. Nishikimi).
  • "Spatial Agglomeration of Skills: skill heterogeneity of workers and regional inequality," K.Ohono (eds.), Economic Development and the Structure of Regional Economies: A Perspective from Economic Geography Approach , Ch.7, Institute of Developing Economies, 2000 (in Japanese).
  • "On the Evolution of Hierarchical Urban Systems," European Economic Review 43, 209-251, 1999 (with M.Fujita and P.Krugman).
  • "Transport Development and the Location of Industrial Activities," in Localisation des activities economiques: efficacite versus equite, Commission 2 of the Treizieme congres des economistes belges de langue francaise, Charleroi, CIFOP, 1998.
  • "On the Dynamics of Frontier Economies: Endogenous Growth or the Self-Organization of a Dissipative System?" The Annals of Regional Science 32, 39-62, 1998 (with M.Fujita).
  • "Bulk Economies in Transportation, Formation of Transport Nodes, and Geographical Concentration of Industrial Activities," in K.Ohno and N.Hamaguchi (eds.), Development Strategy From Regional Perspectives, Institute of Developing Economies, 45-88, 1998 (with K.Nishikimi).
  • "A Mechanism of City Formation by Agglomeration Economies and Hub-Effect: An Application of Transport Project to the Industrial Location Policy," Ajia Keizai 39, 54-65, 1998 (in Japanese).
  • "Structural Stability and the Evolution of Urban Systems," Regional Science and Urban Economics 42, 399-442, 1997 (with M.Fujita).
  • "A Modeling of Megalopolis Formation: the Maturing of City Systems," Journal of Urban Economics 42, 133-157, 1997.
  • "The Role of Ports in the Making of Major Cities: Self-Organization and Hub-Effect," Journal of Development Economics 49, 93-120, 1996 (with M.Fujita).
    (Original more detail paper available: Working papar No.175, Department of Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania (1995) )