Journal of International Economics 111 81-98 2018年3月 [査読有り]
Trade barriers due to transport costs are as large as those due to tariffs. This paper incorporates the transport sector into a standard model of international trade with perfectly competitive output sectors and studies the effects of trade and in...
Jota Ishikawa   Toshihiro Okubo   
Environmental and Resource Economics 67(4) 637-660 2017年8月 [査読有り]
This paper studies greenhouse-gas emission (GHG) controls in the presence of international carbon leakage through international firm relocation. In a new economic geography model (NEG model) with two countries (‘North’ and ‘South’), only North set...
For models of international trade to accurately represent the real-world costs, transport costs cannot be ignored. This column argues that, additionally, we cannot assume that transport costs are symmetrical, because of a backhaul capacity problem...