NAKAJIMA Kentaro　

Ph.D. in Economics, the University of Tokyo, March 2008
M.A. in Economics, the University of Tokyo, March 2005
B.A. in Economics, the University of Tokyo, March 2003

Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (October 2023 -)
Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (March 2017 - September 2023)
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (April 2011 - March 2017)
Associate Professor, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (April 2010 - March 2011)
Associate Professor, Endowed Chair in Regional Economy and Banking (The 77 Bank), Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University (April 2008 - March 2010)

Do sourcing networks make firms global? Microlevel evidence from firm-to-firm transaction networks (with Ryo Itoh), Japanese Economic Review, 72(1), 65-96, January 2021

Agglomeration Economies in Vietnam: A Firm-Level Analysis (with Toshitaka Gokan, Ikuo Kuroiwa), Journal of Asian Economics 62, pp. 52-64, June 2019

The Expanding Empire and Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities: The Case of Japan’s Colonization of Korea during the Pre-war Period (with Tetsuji Okazaki), Economic History Review 71(2), 593-616, May 2018.

Highways and Industrial Development in the Peripheral Regions of China (with Hangtian Xu), Papers in Regional Science 96(2), 325-356, June 2017

Did China’s Coal Mine Regulation Positively Affect Economic Growth? (with Hangtian Xu), Resources Policy 50, 160-168, December 2016.　

Applied Regional Science Conference, Japanese Economic Association, Socio-Economic History Society