CV(September 16, 2023)
Name :Tomoya Mori

Date of Birth : October 7, 1967
Sex : Male
Current Position :• Professor, Institute of Economics, Kyoto University (KIER)• Faculty Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)• Visiting Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS), The University ofTokyo• Visiting Professor, Reitaku Institute of Political Economics and Social Studies(RIPESS), Reitaku University• Visiting Professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Of ce Address :Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
Education :Ph.D., Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
B.S., Civil Engineering, Gifu University, 1990
Past Concurrent Positions :4/2023 - present
9/2020 - present
6/2012 - present
9/2011 - present
8/2009 - present
4/1996 - 7/2009
3/20038/2002
1/1999 - 3/1999

Visiting Professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Visiting Professor, RIPESS, Reitaku University
Visiting Professor, CSIS, The University of Tokyo
Faculty Fellow, RIETI
Professor, KIER
Associate Professor, KIER
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Regional Science, Gifu University
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Economics, Kobe University
Visiting Fellow, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain

Fields of Specialization :Spatial Economics
Urban and Regional Economics
Professional Af liations :fifi1

2007 - present
1996 - present
1996 - present
1995 - present

Urban Economics Association
Applied Regional Science Conference
Japanese Economic Association
Regional Science Association International

Teaching (Graduate):
Economics of Agglomeration
Economic geography
Spatial Economics
Editorial Services :2012 - present
2009 - present
2005 - present

Editorial board, Papers in Regional Science
Editorial board, Journal of Urban Economics
Editorial board, Regional Science and Urban Economics

Academic Society Services:
2023 - present

Vice president, Applied Regional Science ConferenceAwards :The rst Sakashita Prize, Applied Regional Science Conference, 2004
Dean’s Scholar, School of Arts and Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
The Best First-Year Graduate Award, Department of Regional Science
University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Refereed and Invited Papers :1. “Common power laws and spatial fractal structures.” Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(12), March 2020; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1913014117 (with W. Hsu and T.E. Smith).
2. Spatial patterns and city size distribution.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economicsand Finance, February 2020; DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.295.
3. “Inter-city trade.” Vox Column, August 16, 2019 (with J. Wrona).
4. “Spatial patterns and city size distribution: Evidence from 450 Japanese cities.”VoxColumn, August 11, 2019
5. “Central place analysis.” In A. M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban
and Regional Studies Vol. I: A-D: 206-208, 2019; DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0039.
6. “Agglomeration.” In A. M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban andRegional Studies Vol. I: A-D: 15-21, 2019; DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0003.
7. “Evolution of sizes and industrial structure of cities in Japan from 1980 to 2010:
Constant churning and persistent regularity,” Asian Development Review 34(2): 86-113,
2018; DOI: 10.1162/adev_a_00096.

fi2

8. “Beyond urban form: How Masahisa Fujita shapes us,” International Journal of Economic
Theory 13: 5-28, 2018; DOI: 10.1111/ijet.12115 (with M.Berliant).
9. “On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations,” Journal of Urban Economics 89: 1-20,
2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2015.01.006 (with T.E.Smith).
10.“A probabilistic modeling approach to the detection of industrial agglomerations,”
Journal of Economic Geography 14(3): 547-588, 2014; DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbs062 (with T.E.
Smith).
11.“Increasing returns in transportation and the formation of hubs,” Journal of EconomicGeography 12(4): 877-897, 2012; DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbr028.
12.“An industrial agglomeration approach to central place and city size regularities,”
Journal of Regional Science 51(4): 694-731, 2011; DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2011.00715.x(with T.E. Smith).
13.“A reconsideration of the NAS Rule from an industrial agglomeration perspective,”
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2009: 175-217, 2009; Project MUSE https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/271144 (with T.E. Smith).
14.“The Number-Average Size Rule: a new empirical relationship between industrial
location and city size,” Journal of Regional Science 48: 165-211, 2008; DOI: 10.1111/
j.1467-9787.2008.00550.x (with K. Nishikimi and T.E. Smith).
15.“Monocentric versus polycentric models in urban economics.” In The New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., S. N. Durlauf and L. E. Blume (Eds.), Palgrave
Macmillan: 754-217, 2008; DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_2454-1.
16.“A divergence statistic for industrial localization,” Review of Economics and Statistics
87(4): 635-651, 2005; DOI: 10.1162/003465305775098170 (with K.Nishikimi and T.E.
Smith).
17.“Frontiers of the new economic geography,” Papers in Regional Science 84(3): 377-405,
2005; DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2005.00021.x (with M.Fujita).
18.“Transport development and the evolution of economic geography,” Portuguese
Economic Journal 4: 129-159, 2005; DOI: 10.1007/s10258-005-0042-6 (with M.Fujita).
19.“Skills, agglomeration, and segmentation,” European Economic Review 49: 201-225, 2005;
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0080(04)80022-1(with A.Turrini).
20.“Spatial distribution of economic activities in Japan and China,” in J.V. Henderson andJ.-F. Thisse (Eds.), Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics Vol.4, North-Holland, 2004;
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0080(04)80022-1 (with M.Fujita, J.V.Henderson, Y.Kanemoto).
21.“Economies of transport density and industrial agglomeration,” Regional Science andUrban Economics 32: 167-200, 2002; DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0462(01)00078-3 (withK.Nishikimi).
22.“On the evolution of hierarchical urban systems,” European Economic Review 43: 209-251,
1999; DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(98)00066-X (with M.Fujita and P.Krugman).

3

23.“Transport development and the location of industrial activities,” in Localization desactivities economiques: ef cactie versus equite, Commission 2 of the Treizieme congres deseconomites belges de langue francase, Charleroi, CIFOP, 1998.
24.“On the dynamics of frontier economies: endogenous growth or the self-organization ofa dissipative system?” The Annals of Regional Science 32: 39-62, 1999; DOI: 10.1007/
s001680050062 (with M.Fujita).
25.“A mechanism of city formation by agglomeration economies and hub-effect: anapplication of transport project to the industrial location policy,” Ajia Keizai 39: 54-65,
1998.
26.“Structural stability and the evolution of urban systems,” Regional Science and Urban
Economics 27: 399-442, 1997; DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0462(97)80004-X (with M.Fujita).
27. “A modeling of megalopolis formation: the maturing of city systems,” Journal of Urban
Economics 42: 133-157, 1997; DOI: 10.1006/juec.1996.2018.
28.“The role of ports in the making of major cities: self-organization and hub-effect,”Journal of Development Economics 49: 93-120, 1996; DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(95)00054-2(with M.Fujita).
Invited lectures :1. “The future of cities under diminishing spatial frictions and decreasing
population.” Keynote lecture, The Asian Development Bank Conference on“Infrastructure and Urban Development in the Developing World,” The
University of Tokyo (2023).
2. “Endogenous multimodal agglomeration.” Summer School Lecture, Urban
Economics Association, McGill University and Université du Québec à Montréal(UQAM) (2023).
3. “Regularities in urban economy and the future of cities.” CSIS DAYS 2022, The
University of Tokyo (2022).
4. “Evolution of sizes and industrial structure of cities in Japan from 1980 to
2010: Constant churning and persistent regularity.” Conference on Urban andRegional Development in Asia for the Asian Development Review. Millennium
Seoul Hilton, Seoul, Korea (2016).
5. “On the New Empirical Regularities Among Industrial Location Behavior,
Industrial Diversities and Population Sizes of Cities in Japan.” WhartonBrookings Conference on Urban Affairs, Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C.
(2008).
6. “Increasing returns in transportation and the emergence of regularity in thespatial structure of an economy.” Special presentation. Spring meetings,Japanese Economics Association. Kagawa University (1999).
Referee Experience :fi4

Annals of Regional Science, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Environmental Planning B:
Urban Analytics and City Science, European Economic Review, International Economic
Review, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Public
Economic Theory, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series A,Journal of Transport Economics, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Journal ofUrban Economics, Nature Cities, Networks and Spatial Economics, Oxford Research
Encyclopedia of Economics, Papers in Regional Science, PLOS ONE, Portuguese Economic
Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics,
Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies

5