Welcome to Kensuke Teshima's website! My research areas are development economics and international trade. I work mainly on the impact of globalization on industrial and social development. I am Professor at the Faculty of Economics at Doshisha University, Japan.
Working Papers:
From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo. (with Junichi Yamasaki and Kentaro Nakajima). Current version: Februrary 2023.
Homer Hoyt Institute Best Paper Award for the 2021 Joint Real Estate Conference.
Identifying Neighborhood Effects among Firms: Evidence from the Location Lotteries of the Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market. (with Kentaro Nakajima). Preliminary.
Presented at NBER Summer Institute 2017 (Urban Economics).
Write up in RIETI Non-Techinical Summary (in Japanese).
Import Competition and Innovation at the Plant Level: Evidence from Mexico. First version 2008. Current version 2014. Currently being revised and new version coming soon.
Published/Forthcoming Papers:
Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers. (with Yoichi Sugita and Enrique Seira). Review of Economics and Statistics. Volume 105, Number 6, Pages 1544-1561, November 2023.
Write up in Foco Economico (in Spanish) and in RIETI Non-Techinical Summary (in Japanese). Awarded 2015 Banamex Prize in Economics.
North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of Battery Recycling. [Appendix] [Slides] (with Shinsuke Tanaka and Eric Verhoogen). American Economic Review: Insights. Volume 4, Number 3, Pages 271-288 (lead article), September. 2022.
The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico. [Supplementary Materials] (with Melissa Dell and Benjamin Feigenberg). American Economic Review: Insights Volume 1, Number 1, Pages 43-58, June. 2019.
AEA Research Highlight. Write up in VoxDev, Finance and Development (IMF) and Foco Economico (in Spanish). Awarded 2018 Citibanamex Prize in Economics.
Mentioned in Gaceta económica, and La Journada.
Abatement Expenditures, Technology Choice, and Environmental Performance: Evidence from Firm Responses to Import Competition in Mexico. (with Emilio Gutierrez). Journal of Development Economics Volume 133, Pages 264-274, July. 2018.
Previously titled: "Import Competition, Technology and Environmental Performance: Evidence from Mexico".
Write up in Foco Economico (in Spanish).
Foreign Employees as Channel for Technology Transfer: Evidence From MNC's Subsidiaries in Mexico. (with Estefania Santacreu-Vasut). Journal of Development Economics Volume 122, Pages 92-112, September. 2016.
Write up in ESSEC Knowledge (in English and in French), and Foco Economico (in Spanish).
Other Writings (Notes, Policy papers):
Does Household Finance Facilitate Law Compliance? Evidence from Mexico. (with Emilio Gutierrez). Economics Letters 2016. Volume 149, Pages 120-124.
Write up in Foco Economico (in Spanish).
Riesgo Sísmico y Precios de la Vivienda. ( with Emilio Gutierrez and María Rodríguez). Vivienda Infonavit 2018. Volume 3, Pages 172-175.
Emilio's write up in Foco Economico (in Spanish).
Exporters During the Trade Collapse: The Resiliency of the Small Exporters. (with Rahul Giri and Enrique Seira)
La Desgravación Arancelaria en México. (with Rahul Giri and Enrique Seira), in La Política del Comercio Exterior: Regulación e Impacto Edited by Lorenza Martinez and Cesar Hernandez. 2012.