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)

The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data (with Yuhei Miyauchi and Stephen Redding), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(4), 2507-2570, November 2025 (lead article)

The Role of Human Interaction in Innovation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Japan (with Hiroyasu Inoue, Tesuji Okazaki, and Yukiko Umeno Saito), Japanese Economic Review 76(3) (Special Issue in honor of Masahisa Fujita), 795-820, October 2025

The Impact of Brokerage in a Communication Network on Productivity: Evidence from Sensor Data (with Tsuyoshi Tsuru and Katsuhito Uehara), Connections, 44(1), 130-149, January 2024.

Estimating the Effect of Land Use Regulation on Land Price: At the Kink Point of Building Height Limits in Fukuoka (with Keisuke Takano), ​​Regional Science and Urban Economics, 103, 103955, November 2023.

Do sourcing networks make firms global? Microlevel evidence from firm-to-firm transaction networks (with Ryo Itoh), Japanese Economic Review, 72(1) (Special Issue on Economics and Complex Networks), 65-96, January 2021.

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