Yasuyuki Todo

•  Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, September 2000
•  M. A., Food Research, Stanford University, June 1995
•  B. A., Asian Studies, the University of Tokyo, March 1991

Development Economics, International Economics, Applied Econometrics, Growth Theory

•  Impact evaluation of foreign aid projects
•  Internationalization of Japanese firms
•  Diffusion of sustainable agricultural technologies in less developed countries

Complete CV

The following papers are available via EconPapers' site.

•  Intra-industry Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from a Chinese Science Park, forthcoming in Review of Development Economics, 2010 (with Weiying Zhang and Li-An Zhou). (an earlier version in SSRN)
•  Is Foreign Aid a Vanguard of FDI? A Gravity-Equation Approach, forthcoming in World Development, 2010 (with Hidemi Kimura).
•  Does Offshoring Pay? Firm-Level Evidence from Japan, forthcoming in Economic Inquiry, 2010 (with Alexander Hijzen and Tomohiko Inui). (an earlier version published as a RIETI discussion paper)
•  Knowledge Spillovers from FDI in China: The Role of Educated Labor in Multinational Enterprises, Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 20, No. 6, 2009 (with Weiying Zhang and Li-An Zhou).
•  Are Immigrants More Likely to Commit Crimes? Evidence from France, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 16: No. 15, 2009 (with Yu Aoki).
•  R&D Intensity for Innovative and Adaptive Purposes in Overseas Subsidiaries: Evidence from Japanese Multinational Enterprises, Research in International Business and Finance, Vol. 23: No. 1, 2009 (with Satoshi Shimizutani).
•  Overseas R&D Activities and Home Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 56: No. 4, 2008 (with Satoshi Shimizutani).
•  FDI and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries: A Theoretical and Empirical Survey, OECD Journal General Papers, Vol. 2008/1, 2008 (with Yu Aoki).
•  What Determines Overseas R&D Activities? The Case of Japanese Multinational Firms, Research Policy, Vol. 37: No. 3, 2008 (with Satoshi Shimizutani).
•  Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment in R&D: Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data, Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 17: No. 6, 2006.
•  Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment and the Role of R&D Activities: Evidence from Indonesia, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 55: No. 1, 2006 (with Koji Miyamoto).
•  Technology Adoption in Follower Countries: With or Without Local R&D Activities?, Topics in Macroeconomics, Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 2, 2005.
•  Empirically Consistent Scale Effects: An Endogenous Growth Model with Technology Transfer to Developing Countries, the Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 25: No. 1, 2003.
•  The Revival of Scale Effects, Topics in Macroeconomics, Vol. 2: No. 1, Article 4, 2002 (with Koji Miyamoto).
•  Growth, Population, and Knowledge Diffusion, Knowledge, Technology, & Policy, 13(4), pp.94-113, 2001.

•  Inward and Outward FDI of Japan, prepared for the International Conference on gForeign Direct Investment in East Asia: Issues, Strategies, and Prospectsh (organized by Korea University and East Asia Development Network) in Seoul, September 25, 2009.
•  Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation: The Role of the Missing Middle, presented at the gPoverty, Equity and Growthh Inaugural Conference, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, July 1-3, 2009. (with Luc Christiaensen).
•  Quantitative Evaluation of Determinants of Export and FDI: Firm-Level Evidence from Japan, RIETI Discussion Paper, No. 09-E-19, 2009 (with ). (Full Text)
•  The Internationalization of Japanese Firms: New Findings Based on Firm-Level Data, RIETI Discussion Paper, No. 08-E-036, 2008 (with Ryuhei Wakasugi, Hitoshi Sato, Shuichiro Nishioka, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Banri Ito, and Ayumu Tanaka). (Full Text)
•  Impacts of Aid-Funded Technical Assistance Programs: Firm-Level Evidence from the Indonesian Foundry Industry, RIETI Discussion Paper, No. 08-E-024, 2008. (Full Text)
•  Is Foreign Aid a Vanguard of FDI? A Gravity-Equation Approach, RIETI Discussion Paper, No. 07-E-007, 2007 (with Hidemi Kimura). (Full Text)
•  The Effects of Multinational Production on Domestic Performance: Evidence from Japanese Firms, RIETI Discussion Paper, No. 07-E-006, 2007 (with Alexander Hijzen and Tomohiko Inui). (Full Text)
•  Do Multinationalfs R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Chinafs gSilicon Valley, NBER Working Paper, No. 13618, 2007 (with Hongbin Cai and Li-An Zhou). (Full Text)
•  Intra-industry Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from a Chinese Science Park, 2006 (with Weiying Zhang and Li-An Zhou). (Full Text)
•  Geographic Distance on Knowledge Diffusion from Multinational Enterprises: Evidence from Indonesia, 2003.
•  Enterprise Training in Indonesia: The Interaction between Workerfs Training and Schooling, 2002 (with Koji Miyamoto). (Full Text)

•  Team Todo
•  Economic Development I

•  University of Tokyo: international development and environment, macroeconomics, graduate economic growth.
•  Aoyama Gakuin University: international macroeconomics, international development, macroeconomics.
•  Tokyo Metropolitan University: economic growth, advanced macroeconomics, international finance.
•  Southern Illinois University: macroeconomics, advanced international trade.

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