Minoru Osawa

Welcome! I am an assistant professor at Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER), Kyoto University, working on urban and regional economics. My door is always open, I look forward to discussing exciting things with you.

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Research

Selected Discussion Papers

Spatial scale of agglomeration and dispersion: Number, spacing, and the spatial extent of cities (with Takashi Akamatsu, Tomoya Mori, and Yuki Takayama) [PDF]
[Previously circulated as: "Spatial scale of agglomeration and dispersion: Theoretical foundations and empirical implications"/"Endogenous agglomeration in a many-region world"/"Multimodal agglomeration in economic geography"]

Origin of power laws and their spatial fractal structure for city-size distributions (with Tomoya Mori, Takashi Akamatsu, and Yuki Takayama) [PDF]

Publications

Equilibrium reﬁnement for a model of non-monocentric internal structures of cities: A potential game approach (with Takashi Akamatsu) Journal of Economic Theory (2020) [PDF]

Harris and Wilson (1978) model revisited: The spatial period-doubling bifurcation in an urban retail model (with Takashi Akamatsu and Yuki Takayama) Journal of Regional Science (2016) [PDF]

First-best dynamic assignment of commuters with endogenous heterogeneities in a corridor network (with Haoran Fu and Takashi Akamatsu) Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (2018) [PDF]

Perturbed cusp catastrophe in a population game: Spatial economics with locational asymmetries (with Kiyohiro Ikeda, José Maria Gaspar, and Yuki Takayama) Journal of Regional Science (2022) [PDF]

Breaking and sustaining bifurcations in $S_N$-invariant equidistant economy (with Hiroki Aizawa, Kiyohiro Ikeda, and José Maria Gaspar) International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (2021) [PDF]

Model-based analysis on social acceptability and feasibility of a focused protection strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic (with Takashi Akamatsu, Takeshi Nagae, Koki Satsukawa, Takara Sakai, Daiziro Mizutani) Scientific Reports (2021) [PDF]

Time evolution of city distributions in Germany: Group-theoretic spectrum analysis (with Kiyohiro Ikeda and Yuki Takayama) Networks and Spatial Economics (2022) [PDF]

Spatio-temporal analysis of gasoline shortages in the Tohoku region after the Great East Japan Earthquake (with Takashi Akamatsu, Takeshi Nagae, and Hiromichi Yamaguchi) Journal of JSCE (2013) [PDF]

Working Papers

Innovation through intra and inter-regional interaction in economic geography (with Jose Maria Gaspar)

Cities in a world of diminishing transport costs (with Tomoya Mori)

Stochastic stability of endogenous agglomeration patterns in an urban retail mode (with Takashi Akamatsu and Yosuke Kogure)

Production externalities and dispersion process in a multi-region economy (with Jose Maria Gaspar)

Teaching

Education and Work Experiences

Apr 2020 - Present:
Assistant Professor (tenure-track).
Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University

Oct 2016 - Mar 2020:
Assistant Professor (termed).
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