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Hodaka Morita

Hodaka Morita - Australian School of Business 

PhD Economics and MBA, Cornell University

BEc University of Tokyo

Associate Professor

Phone:

+61 2 9385 3341 

Fax:

+61 2 9313 6337 

Room:

414 

Address:

Australian School of Business building

Hodaka Morita works in applied microeconomic theory, where his main fields of interest are industrial organization, organizational economics, inteternational trade and economics of Japanese business. Hodaka was appointed as a Lecturer at UNSW's School of Economics in 1999, and promoted to a Senior Lecturer with tenure in 2004 and an Associate Professor (roughly equivalent to a full professor in North American universities) in 2008.

 

Hodaka is currently an Australian Research Fellow, a visiting researcher at Competition Policy Research Center, Fair Trade Commission of Japan, an Associate Editor of Australian Journal of Management, and a Research Fellow at Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB) at Kobe University. He has held visiting positions at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management and Economics Department, University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, Queen's University's Economics Department, Hitotsubashi University (the 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program, Institute of Economic Research, and Institute of Innovation Research), Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI), and Kobe University's RIEB.

 

 

Publications

  • 'Firm Dynamics and Labor Market Consequences'. September 2010. Forthcoming in Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization
  • 'FDI in Post-Production Services and Product Market Competition' (with Jota Ishikawa and Hiroshi Mukunoki). Journal of International Economics, 2010, Vol. 82, pp. 73-84
  • 'Competition, Monopoly Maintenance, and Consumer Switching Costs' (with Michael Waldman). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, Vol. 2 (1), pp. 230-250
  • 'An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing’ (with Arghya Ghosh). Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2008, Vol. 22 (2), pp. 164-186. NBER Working Paper No. 13058
  • 'Free Entry and Social Efficiency under Vertical Oligopoly' (with Arghya Ghosh). RAND Journal of Economics, 2007, Vol. 38 (2), pp. 539-552
  • 'Social Desirability of Free Entry: A Bilateral Oligopoly Analysis' (with Arghya Ghosh). International Journal of industrial Organization, 2007, Vol. 25 (5), pp. 925-934
  • 'International Credit and Welfare: A Paradoxical Theorem and its Policy Implications' (with Kaushik Basu). European Economic Review, 2006, Vol. 50, (August), pp. 1507-1528
  • 'Platform Sharing in a Differentiated Duopoly' (with Arghya Ghosh). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2006, Vol. 15, (Summer), pp. 397-429
  • 'Multi-skilling, Delegation, and Continuous Process Improvement: A Comparative Analysis of US-Japanese Work Organizations.' Economica, 2005, Vol. 72, (February), pp. 69-93
  • 'Impacts of the Information-technology Revolution on Japanese Manufacturer-supplier Relationships' (with Hirohiko Nakahara). Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2004, Vol. 18, (September), pp. 390-415
  • 'Durable Goods, Monopoly Maintenance, and Time Inconsistency' (with Michael Waldman). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2004, Vol. 13, (Summer), pp. 273-302
  • 'Partial Ownership Induces Customised Investments under Repeated Interaction: an Explanation of Japanese Manufacturer-Suppliers Relationships.' Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001, vol. 48, (August), pp. 345-359
  • 'Choice of Technology and Labour Market Consequences: an Explanation of U.S.-Japanese Differences.' Economic Journal, 2001, vol. 111, (January), pp. 29-50

 

Working papers

 

  • 'Competitor Collaboration and Product Distinctiveness' (with Arghya Ghosh). February 2010
  • 'Formal Contracts, Relational Contracts, and the Threat Point Effect' (with Hideshi Itoh). October 2010
  • 'Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure' (with Arghya Ghosh and Takao Kato). June 2010
  • 'Internal Promotion and External Recruitment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis' (with Jed DeVaro). April 2010
  • 'Partial Equity Ownership and Knowledge Transfer' (with Arghya Ghosh). July 2010
  • 'FDI, Technology Spillover, and Vertical Product Differentiation' (with Xuan T. Nguyen). October 2010
  • 'A New Implication of Lazear’s Skill-weights Approach' (with Clare Noone). October 2010
  • 'Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation' (with Maroš Servátka). October 2010

 

 

Research interests

  • Industrial organization
  • Organizational economics
  • International trade
  • Economics of Japanese business

Research grants

  • 2009-2013: Australian Research Council Discovery Projects and Australian Research Fellowship, 'Partial Equity Ownership and Knowledge Transfer: An Economic Analysis of Strategic Alliances', AU$ 325,000
  • 2008-2010: Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, 'Economic Analysis of Competitor Collaboration: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications' (with Arghya Ghosh), AU$ 156,426
  • 2006-2008: Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, 'Human Capital Acquisition, Technological Improvement, and Product Market Competition: Theory and Evidence', AU$ 160,000

 Courses taught

  • COMM5002 Managing Value Creation
  • ECON4102 Strategic Market Behaviour and Government Regulation
  • ECON5112 Organisational Economics
  • ECON6301 Strategic Market Behaviour and Government Regulation

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