Hayato Kato
Curriculum Vitae

Last Updated: July 14, 2024
Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
Machikaneyama 1-7, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
Email: hayato.kato@econ.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Research Interests
International Trade, Economic Geography, International Taxation

Current Position
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Apr. 2019 –present
Visiting Researcher sponsored by the JSPS Overseas Fellowship, Seminar for Economic Policy, LMU Munich, Mar. 2022 – Mar. 2023
CESifo Research Network Fellow, Dec. 2022 – presentPublications
1. “Does It Matter Where You Invest? The Impact of FDI on Domestic Job Creation andDestruction,” with Yang Liu and Bin Ni, The World Economy, 2023, 46: 135-152.
2. “The Resilience of FDI to Natural Disasters through Industrial Linkages,” with Toshihiro Okubo, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2022, 82(1): 379-416.
Previous version: “The Impact of a Natural Disaster on Foreign Direct Investmentand Vertical Linkages,” with Toshihiro Okubo, June 2017.
3. “Economic Integration and Agglomeration of Multinational Production with TransferPricing,” with Hirofumi Okoshi, International Economic Review, 2022, 63: 13251355.
4. “Is Environmental Tax Harmonization Desirable in Global Value Chains?” withHaitao Cheng and Ayako Obashi, The B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Policy, 2021, 21(1): 379-416.
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5. "Do Vertical Spillovers Differ by Investors’ Productivity? Theory and Evidence fromVietnam" with Bin Ni, Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24(3): 10461072.
6. "Production Location of Multinationals under Transfer Pricing: The Impact of Arm’s
Length Principle" with Hirofumi Okoshi, International Tax and Public Finance,
2019, 26(4): 835-871.
7. "Market Size in Globalization" with Toshihiro Okubo, Journal of International
Economics, 2018, 111: 34-60.
8. "Lobbying and Tax Competition in an Oligopolistic Industry: A Reverse Home Market
Effect," Spatial Economics Analysis, 2018, 13(3): 276-295.
9. "The Importance of Government Commitment in Attracting Firms: A Dynamic Analysis of Tax Competition in an Agglomeration Economy," European Economic Review, 2015, 74(C): 57-78.
 Comments
1. Comments on "Competition Effects and Industrial Productivity: Lessons from JapaneseIndustry," by Masahito Ambashi, Asian Economic Papers, 2017, 16(3): 253-55.

Working Papers
1. “A Global Minimum Tax for Large Firms Only: Implications for Tax Competition,”with Andreas Haufler, Apr. 2024.
2. “Tax Competition for Automation Capital,” with Jonas Löbbing, Nov. 2023.
3. “Production Dynamics in Multi-Product Firms’ Exporting,” with Kazunobu Hayakawa,Toshiyuki Matsuura, and Hiroshi Mukunoki, Feb. 2020.

Work in Progress
1. “Structural Change in the Global Economy,” with Kensuke Suzuki and Motoaki Takahashi.
2. “Bilateral Tax Treaties and Profit Shifting: Evidence from Japanese Multinationals,”with Yuting Chen and Bin Ni.

Previous Position
Research Fellow (PD) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Keio
University, Apr. 2016 – Mar. 2019

Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, 2016
M.A. in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, 2013
B.A. in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, 20112

Presentations
2024

Macroeconomics Workshop (Osaka U), Yonsei Trade Workshop, KER Conference(Pyeongchang), APTS (Chulalongkorn U), Academia Sinica

2023 LMU Munich, Symposium of Public Economics, U of Goettingen, Kyoto U, Shimane
U, IIPF (Utah State U), ETSG (U of Surrey), Ryukoku U, Hitotsubashi-Gakushuin Conferenceon International Trade and FDI

2022 Market Studies and Spatial Economics (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES,online), LMU Munich (Andreas Haufler’s Birthday Conference, PhD Workshop in Public Econand Trade Retreat), U of Bayreuth, JGU Mainz, IIPF (JKU Linz), ETSG (U of Groningen),
Midwest Trade Conference (U of Notre Dome)
2021 Hanyang U (online), Hosei U (online), NASMES (online), AMES (online), CMES(online), Kobe U (online), EWMES (online)
2020 Korean Economic Review International Conference (online)
2019 Kobe U, Chulalongkorn U, Osaka U (ISER), IIPF (U of Glasgow), APTS (U of Tokyo),
U of Tokyo, ATW (RMITU), ERIA Microdata Project, Kyoto U

2018

JSIE (Kwansei Gakuin U), IIPF (U of Tampere), IOSE (HSE), ATW (U of Auckland),IDE School on Urban and Regional Economics in Developing Countries for Young Economists(IDE-JETRO), Kochi U, WITS (Otaru U of Commerce)

Refereeing ServiceCanadian Journal of Economics, Economics Bulletin, Economic Modelling, Economic Record,
Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, International Economic Journal, International Economic
Review, International Economics, International Journal of Economic Theory, International
Review of Economics and Finance, International Tax and Public Finance, Japanese Economic
Review, Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International
Trade & Economic Development, Journal of the Japanese and International Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Regional Science,Managerial and Decision Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Natural Hazards, Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics, Scottish Journal of Political
Economy, Spatial Economic Analysis

Fellowships
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr. 2013–
Mar. 2016Awards
Osaka University Prize for Young Faculty and Staff, 2021
Languages
3

English, Japanese
References
Prof. Jota Ishikawa, Graduate School of Economics, Gakushuin University
Prof. Toshihiro Okubo, Department of Economics, Keio University4