Yukako Ono
Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345, Japanyono@fbc.keio.ac.jp, Tel: +81-3-5427-1368
Education:

Ph.D. in Economics, 2001, Brown University, Providence, RI, US
A.M. in Economics, 1996, Brown University, Providence, RI, US
B.A. in Business and Commerce, 1994, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Position:Professor, Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University, April 2019~ PresentAssociate Professor, Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University, April 2011~ March 2019
Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, September 2001 ~ October 2010Visiting Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2008 Fall
Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, 2010 Spring
Visiting Scholar, Keio Economic Observatory, 2010~2011
Sworn Status U.S. Census Employee, 1997 ~ 2010
Areas of Research Interest:

Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Urban Economics

Publication
Articles“Incomplete Information and the Lag between Temporary and Permanent Employment Adjustment: A cross-city
Analysis” (with Qinghua Zhang), Keio Business Review, 2018 No.53-1“Indirect Exports and Wholesalers: Evidence from interfirm transaction network data” (with Daisuke Fujii andYukiko Umeno Saito,” Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 44, pp 35-47, 2017
“Manufacturing Plants’ Use of Temporary Workers: An Analysis Using Census Microdata” (with Daniel G.
Sullivan), Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 52, Issue 2, pp. 419-443, 2013
“Local Monopsony and Female Part-timer Wage” (in Japanese, with Isamu Yamamoto), Dynamism of Household
Behavior in Japan , Chapter 8, pp. 167~186 , ISBN978-4-7664-1849-1, Seko et al. ed, Keio University Press, 2011
“Where Do Manufacturing Firms Locate Their Headquarters?” (with J. Vernon Henderson), Journal of UrbanEconomics, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 431- 450, March 2008
“Professional Employer Organizations: What Are They, Who Uses Them, and Why Should We Care?” (withBritton Lombardi), Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2008
“Spatial Organization of Firms: The Decision to Split Production and Administration” (with Kristin Aarland, Jim
Davis, and J. Vernon Henderson), Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 481- 492, Summer 2007
“Market Thickness and Outsourcing Services,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 220238, March, 2007
“Who Are Temporary Nurses?” (with Andrew Goodman-Bacon), Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank ofChicago, Vol. 31, First Quarter 2007
“What Do Census Data Tell Us About Headquarters Locations?,” Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 20, Issue2, pp. 129-141, 2006

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“Outsourcing, Firm Size and Product Complexity: Evidence from Credit Unions” (with Victor Stango), Economic
Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Vol. 29, First Quarter 2005
“Outsourcing Business Services and the Role of Central Administrative Offices”, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol.
53, No. 3, pp. 377-395, May, 2003
“Temporary Help Services and the Volatility of Industry Output” (with Alexei Zelenev), Economic Perspectives,
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Vol. 27, Second Quarter 2003
Book：editorial work
Dynamics of Work Styles and Happiness: Family and Lifecycle, (in Japanese)（edited by Yoshio Higuchi, Hideo
Akabayashi, Yukako Ono）ISBN978-4-7664-2047-0, Keio University Press, 2013
Other publication“Why Do Firms Use Temporary Workers?,” 2009 Chicago Fed Letter, No. 260“The Changing Relationship between Headquarters and Cities” (with Thomas Klier and William Testa), 2005
Chicago Fed Letter, No. 212a
Working papers“Roles of In-house Production in Firms' Supplier Management,” RIETI Discussion Paper Series 18-E-047, 2018
“Roles of Wholesalers in Transaction Networks,” (with Toshihiro Okubo, Yukiko Umeno Saito), RIETI Discussion
Paper Series 14-3-059, 2015
“Firm Boundaries and Buyer-supplier Match in Market Transaction: IT System Procurement of U.S. Credit
Unions” (with Junichi Suzuki, University of Toronto, Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,
2009-22“Supplier Switching and Outsourcing” (with Victor Stango), Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank ofChicago, 2005-22
Presentations at Conferences/ Seminar2019: Western Economic Association International, Tokyo; Tokyo University; IDE-Jetro
2018: Keio University (Applied microeconomics seminar); Applied Regional Science Conference, Nagoya
2017: IDE-Jetro (International Workshop on Urban and International Trade)
Co-organized by IDE-JETRO, Hitotsubashi University, and Keio University)
2016: Kwansei Gakuin University RIETI Workshop (Geography, Inter-firm Networks, and International Trade)
2013: Western Economic Association, Tokyo
2012: RIETI Workshop (International Economic), Japan
2011: Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Seoul; RIETI
2010: Japan Economic Association; Keio University, Japan; Tokyo University; Hitotsubashi University; RIETI
2009: International Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data Conference, Tokyo; FRB Chicago
2008: Federal Reserve Board of Governor, Washington, D.C.; Keio University, Japan; Regional ScienceAssociation International, NY; FRB Chicago
2007: NBER Labor Market Intermediaries Conference (Discussant), Boston; Center for Economic Studies at theU.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C.; International Industrial Organization Conference, Savannah, GA; Regional
Science Association International, Savannah, GA; FRB Chicago
2006: International Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data Conference, Chicago; FRB Chicago
2005: Federal Reserve Bank System Committee Meeting, San Francisco; Western Michigan University,Kalamazoo; FRB Chicago

22004: Regional Science Association International, Seattle; Corporate Headquarter conference, Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago; Federal Reserve Bank System Committee Meeting, New York; Mid-Atlantic Economic
Conference, Chicago; International Industrial Organization Conference, Chicago; FRB Chicago
2003: Regional Science Association International, Philadelphia; ASSA meeting, Washington DC; FRB Chicago
2002: Regional Science Association International, San Juan; Federal Reserve Bank System Committee Meeting,San Antonio; Summer Meeting of Econometric Society, Los Angeles; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
FRB Chicago
2001: The 2001 Far Eastern meeting of the Econometric Society, Kobe, Japan; Regional Science Association
International, Charleston; Asian Real Estate Society Sixth Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan; Western Economic
Association International, San Francisco; FRB Chicago; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2000: 27th European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Lausanne, Switzerland; Young Economists’Conference 2000, Oxford University, U.K.; Citibank Applied Micro Seminar, Brown University
1999: Citibank Applied Micro Seminar, Brown University
Referee Activities
Economic Letters, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of the European Economic
Association, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Urban Economics,Labour Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Research Proposal submitted to the Center forEconomic Studies, Review of Industrial Organization
Association
Econometric Society, Urban Economics Association, Japan Economic Society, Applied Regional
Science Association
Media Citation
BusinessWeek, The Downside of Outsourcing by James Mehring, 2005
Honors and Awards
Eccleston Fellowship, Brown University, Fall 2000
Brown University Research Fellowship, Summer 1997 and 1998
Koizumi Foundation Scholarship, Keio University, 1995 and 1996
Last updated: May 20193