I am an assistant professor at Aarhus University, Department of Economics and Business Economics (BSS). My research areas are international trade and labor economics, specifically automation, globalization, and employment.

Contact: daisuke.adachi.econ@gmail.com

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Research

Publications

• Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978-2017 (with Daiji Kawaguchi and Yukiko U. Saito). Forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics. [VoxEU, World Economic Forum]. Final working paper version. Replication files.

• Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Corporate Insurance Markets: Evidence from the 2011 Thailand Floods (with Hiroyuki Nakata, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Kunio Sekiguchi). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 376-386. Final working paper version.

Working papers

• Robots and Wage Polarization: The Effects of Robot Capital across Occupations. Job Market Paper. [Best paper award at the 19th GEP/CEPR Annual Postgraduate Conference]

• [updated on 23-03-23] Multinational Production and Corporate Labor Share (with Yukiko U. Saito). Slides.

• Commuting Zones in Japan (with Taiyo Fukai, Daiji Kawaguchi, Yukiko U. Saito). Concordance between municipality code and CZ.

Work in progress

• Robots on Sale: The Effect of Investment Promotion on Robot Adoption and Employment (with Daiji Kawaguchi and Yukiko U. Saito).

Teaching

• 5522: International Economics at Aarhus BSS