Minoru OSAWA
Welcome! I am an assistant professor at Institute of Economic Research of Kyoto University. My research interests are in spatial economics, transportation science, and learning in games. You can call me Mino. Looking forward to exchanging thoughts with you.
Research
Selected Discussion Papers
- Origin of power laws and their spatial fractal structure for city-size distributions (2024)
(with Tomoya Mori, Takashi Akamatsu, and Yuki Takayama) [paper]
Publications
Ordered by my preference. Please see Google Scholar for a chronological list.
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Spatial scale of agglomeration and dispersion: Number, spacing, and the spatial extent of cities.
Journal of Urban Economics, to appear. (2026) [paper] [codes] [DP2017a] [DP2017b]
(with Takashi Akamatsu, Tomoya Mori, Yuki Takayama) -
Equilibrium refinement for a model of non-monocentric internal structures of cities: A potential game approach.
Journal of Economic Theory (2020) [paper]
(with Takashi Akamatsu) -
Harris and Wilson (1978) model revisited: The spatial period-doubling bifurcation in an urban retail model.
Journal of Regional Science (2016) [paper]
(with Takashi Akamatsu, Yuki Takayama) -
First-best dynamic assignment of commuters with endogenous heterogeneities in a corridor network.
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (2018) [paper]
(with Haoran Fu, Takashi Akamatsu) -
Perturbed cusp catastrophe in a population game: Spatial economics with locational asymmetries.
Journal of Regional Science (2022) [paper]
(with Kiyohiro Ikeda, José Maria Gaspar, Yuki Takayama) -
Breaking and sustaining bifurcations in SN-invariant equidistant economy.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (2021) [paper]
(with Hiroki Aizawa, Kiyohiro Ikeda, José Maria Gaspar) -
Model-based analysis on social acceptability and feasibility of a focused protection strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scientific Reports (2021) [paper]
(with Takashi Akamatsu, Takeshi Nagae, Koki Satsukawa, Takara Sakai, Daiziro Mizutani) -
Time evolution of city distributions in Germany: Group-theoretic spectrum analysis.
Networks and Spatial Economics (2022) [paper]
(with Kiyohiro Ikeda, Yuki Takayama) -
Spatio-temporal analysis of gasoline shortages in the Tohoku region after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Journal of JSCE (2013) [paper]
(with Takashi Akamatsu, Takeshi Nagae, Hiromichi Yamaguchi)
Working Papers
- Understanding regional dynamics (2025) [paper] [slides]
- Sampling logit equilibrium and endogenous payoff distortion (2026) [paper] [slides]
- Most likely retail agglomeration patterns (2025) (with Takashi Akamatsu and Yosuke Kogure)
- Innovation, spillovers and economic geography (2025) (with José Maria Gaspar)
- Production externalities and dispersion process in a multi-region economy (2021) (with José Maria Gaspar)
Education and Professional Experience
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Apr. 2020 - Present:
Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University -
Oct. 2016 - Mar. 2020:
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
School of Engineering, Tohoku University -
Apr. 2014 - Sep. 2016:
Research Fellow (DC1)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science -
Sep. 2016:
Ph.D. (Information Sciences)
Department of Human-Social Information Sciences,
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University.
(Thesis supervisor: Takashi Akamatsu) -
Mar. 2012:
Bachelor of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture,
School of Engineering, Tohoku University - Mar. 2008: 長野県松本深志高等学校 卒業
Misc.
- Born in 1990. He/his/him. Love dogs. Love hiking. Do some drawing & painting.
- If you are interested in presenting your work at our Urban Economics Workshop, please feel free to contact me.