Akira Sasahara

ササハラアキラ | Akira Sasahara

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://sites.google.com/view/akirasasahara/home

Research field (1)： Economic policy

Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：

2024 - 2027 Globalization, Climate Change, and Regional Economies: Interactions and Propagation of the Shock
2022 - 2026 Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the International Specialization in Japan and East Asia in the Era of Covid-19 and Beyond
2021 - 2025 The Impact of Global Shocks on Labor Markets: From Micro and Macro Perspectives
2021 - 2024 Research on Globalization, Income, and Global Value Chains

Papers (7)：

Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, Aitor Erce, Akira Sasahara. Costs of Sovereign Debt Crises: Restructuring Strategies and Bank Intermediation. Journal of International Economics. 2024. 152. November. 104002
Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, Akira Sasahara, Hans Weisfeld. Importing Inputs for Climate Change Mitigation: The Case of Agricultural Productivity. Review of International Economics. 2022. 30. 1. 34-56
Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Akira Sasahara. Gains from Trade and the Sovereign Bond Market. European Economic Review. 2020. 124
Akira Sasahara. Explaining the Employment Effect of Exports: Value-Added Content Matters. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies. 2019. 52. 1-12
Robert C. Feenstra, Akira Sasahara. The China Shock in Trade: Consequences for ASEAN and East Asia. World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment. 2019

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MISC (13)：

Akira Sasahara. Book Review on Import Shocks and the Japanese Economy by Masahiro Endoh, Keio University Press. Kokusai Keizai (A Journal of the Japan Society of International Economics). 2024. 76
Keiko Ito, Masahiro Endoh, Naoto Jinji, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Toshihiro Okubo, Akira Sasahara. Margins, Concentration, and the Performance of Firms in International Trade: Evidence from Japanese Customs Data. Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series DP2024-017. 2024
Jaerim Choi, Masahiro Endoh, Akira Sasahara. A Tale of Two Countries: Global Value Chains, the China Trade Shock, and Labor Markets. Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series DP2024-012. 2024
Keiko Ito, Masahiro Endoh, Toshihiro Okubo, Akira Sasahara, Naoto Jinji, Toshiyuki Matsuura. An Empirical Investigation on International Trade Using Japan’s Customs Data. PRI Discussion Paper Series No.23A-02. 2023
Akira Sasahara, Yumin Sui, Emily Taguchi. Immigration, Imports, and (Im)mutable Japanese Labor Markets. Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series DP2023-002. 2023

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Lectures and oral presentations (37)：

The Impact of a Natural Disaster on International Trade: A Natural Experiment from Typhoon Jebi Hitting an Airport
(The 83th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of International Economics 2024)
Immigration, Trade with China, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Japan
(Ajiken Power Lunch Seminar 2024)
Immigration, Trade with China, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Japan
(International Economics Workshop 2024)
Global Value Chains, Domestic Value Chains, and Comparative Advantage
(International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Workshop 2024)
Global Value Chains, Domestic Value Chains, and Comparative Advantage
(SIPEC IE SEMINAR 2024)

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Works (1)：

Keio University Correspondence Courses Thesis Guideline (in Japanese)
Akira Sasahara 2022 - 現在

Education (3)：

2012 - 2017 University of California, Davis Economics Department
2009 - 2011 Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics
2005 - 2009 Keio University Business and Commerce

Work history (2)：

2020/06 - 現在 Keio University Faculty of Economics Associate Professor of Economics
2017/08 - 2020/05 University of Idaho College of Business and Economics Assistant Professor of Economics

Committee career (10)：

2023/01 - 現在 The Japanese Economic Association The Childcare Service Organizing Committee, Japanese Economic Association
2025/01 - 2025/10 The Japanese Economic Association The Program Committee, The 2025 Fall Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association
2023/10 - 2024/10 The Japan Society of International Economics The Program Committee, The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of International Economics
2022/11 - 2024/10 The Kanto Division of the Japan Society of International Economics Committee Member
2023/07 - 2024/01 The Kanto Division of the Japan Society of International Economics The Student Event Organizing Committee

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Awards (2)：

2019/04 - College of Business and Economics, University of Idaho Thornton Faculty Excellence Award
2013 - The Japan Society of International Economics The Kojima Kiyoshi Prize for Excellent Papers

Association Membership(s) (8)：

International Economics and Finance Society (IEFS) Japan , TCER Fellow (Tokyo Center for Economic Research) , Applied Regional Science Conference , Urban Economics Association , Western Economic Association International , American Economic Association , Japanese Economic Association , Japan Society of International Economics

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