Yukichi MANO

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. I am on the Job Market this year and I will be attending the 2007 ASSA Meeting in Chicago in January. My main fields of research are development economics, growth theory, industrial organization, and applied price theory. My current research is to understand the mechanism of industrial development.

• CV

• Job market paper:
  "Quality Improvement and Marketing in the Cluster-based Industrial Development."
  Abstract: We consider the role of marketing in the growth of new industrial clusters in China and Japan. Case studies suggest that as firms improve product quality, they switch from anony- mous transactions through marketplaces or local traders to direct transactions with customers. The data is consistent with a model where an industrial cluster generates a business envi- ronment where innovative investment benefits from low transaction costs and local external economies. Our model explains that firms switch marketing methods to resolve the asymmetric information problem in product quality. We estimate model parameters based on the data for three industries: the electric appliance industry in Wenzhou, China, the child clothing industry in Jili, China, and the work clothing industry in Bingo, Japan. The estimated model closely fits the evolution of the industries. The policy experiments suggest that the establishment of mar- ketplaces and the formation of industrial clusters significantly contributed to the development of these industries.

• Publications:
  • "Agglomeration Economies and Geographical Concentration of Industries: A Case Study of Manufacturing Sectors in Postwar Japan" with K. Otsuka, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies Vol. 14, No.3 Sep.2000 pp.189-203
  • "The Location of Industries and Agglomeration Economies: A Case Study of Manufacturing Sectors in Postwar Japan," (Sangyo Ricchi to Shuseki no Keizai: Sengo Nihon no Seizougyo ni kansuru Jirei Kenkyu.) Keizai to Keizaigaku, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Vol. 89, July 1999. (In Japanese)
• Working papers:
  • "A Survey of Empirical Studies on Industrial Development in Less Developed Economies," mimeo. University of Chicago, July 2005.
  • "Formation of Suburban Clusters in the Process of Industrial Development: the Case of the Greater Tokyo Region, 1960-2000"with Eiji Yamamura, Tetsushi Sonobe, and Keijiro Otsuka, submitted.
  • "Market Information in Product Cycles." mimeo. University of Chicago, January 2004.
  • "International Trade, Technology Spillovers, and Economic Growth." mimeo. University of Chicago, April 2003.
  • "Changes in the Effects of Race, Gender, and Human Capital on Determination of Wage Rate: The Case Study using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth79 in the U.S." mimeo. University of Chicago, March 2003.
  • "Locational Changes in Industries in the Development Process: The Case of Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefectures in Japan, 1960-1995" The Thesis for MA degree from Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2001.

• Advisers:
  • Professor Robert E. Lucas Jr.
  • Professor Chad Syverson
  • Professor Jeremy Fox

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