Working papers

• Elasticity of Substitution between Robots and Workers: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Robot Price Data. R&R (2nd round) at Journal of Monetary Economics. Previously circulated as “Robots and Wage Polarization: The Effects of Robot Capital across Occupations.” Best paper award at the 19th GEP/CEPR Annual Postgraduate Conference.

• Multinational Production and Corporate Labor Share. (with Yukiko U. Saito). R&R at the Review of Economics and Statistics. Slides

• Commuting Zones in Japan. (with Taiyo Fukai, Daiji Kawaguchi, Yukiko U. Saito). [VoxEU]

Work in progress

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

Selected Publications

• Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978-2017. (with Daiji Kawaguchi and Yukiko U. Saito). Journal of Labor Economics, 2024 42:2, 591-634. [VoxEU, World Economic Forum]. Final working paper version. Replication files.