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HAYAKAWA Kazunobu

Bangkok Research Center

Research Field:
International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, Spatial Economics

Education:
B.A. in Economics, Keio University, Japan, March 2003
M.A. in Economics, Keio University, Japan, March 2005
Ph.D. in Economics, Keio University, Japan, March 2008

Professional Career:
Current Positions: Bangkok Research Center, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, April 2011 -
Career in the Past: Researcher, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, April 2009 - March 2011 Research Collaborator, Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan, July 2008 - March 2011. Editor, The Developing Economies, April 2010 - March 2011 Research Associate, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan, April 2005 - March 2008. Research Assistant, Research Institute for Economy, Industry and Trade, Japan, August 2005 - March 2008. Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Nihon University, Japan, April 2008 - March 2009. Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Business Administration, Yokohama National University, Japan, April 2006 - March 2008.

"Globalization and Productivity: A Survey of Firm-level Analysis" (with Fukunari Kimura and Tomohiro Machikita) forthcoming in Journal of Economic Surveys.
Measuring Fixed Costs for Firms' Use of a Free Trade Agreement : Threshold Regression Approach, Economics Letters, 113(3): 301-303, 2011.
Complex Vertical FDI and Firm Heterogeneity: Evidence from East Asia” (with Toshiyuki Matsuura), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 25: 273-289, 2011.
"The Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on International Trade in East Asia" (with Fukunari Kimura), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 23(4): 395-406, 2009.
"Growth of Intermediate Goods Trade in East Asia", Pacific Economic Review, 12(4): 511-523, 2007.
"Fragmentation and Parts and Components Trade: Comparison between East Asia and Europe" (with Fukunari Kimura and Yuya Takahashi), North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 18(1): 23-40, 2007.