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Asei Ito

Division Contemporary China Research Base
Research Fields The Chinese Economy, Regional economy, and Small Business Studies
E-mail aseiiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Teaching and Research Appointments

April 2012 - Project Research Associate, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2015 -
March 2017
Lecturer, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2017 - Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
September 2022 - May 2023 Visiting Scholar, Harvard Yenching Institute

Topics of Research

1Studies on innovation of Chinese companies and upgrading of industrial clusters in China
2Studies on outward investment and development assistance including Belt and Road initiative
3Structural Reforms and Political and Economic Factors in China
4Digitalization in Asia and emerging economies

Selected Publications

  • “From a ‘Black Market’ to a ‘Pantheon of Miscellaneous Goods’: A Regional Development in Yiwu, China”, Hiroyuki Kato ed., Urbanization and Industrial Agglomerations in Yangtze Delta, Keiso Shobo, pp.152-177, 2012(in Japanese).
  • “Transformations of Industrial Clusters in Japan: Clustering and ‘Made in Japan’ ”, Guangdong Science and Technology, No.280, pp.51-60, 2012(in Chinese).
  • “Agglomeration Economies with Heterogeneous firms in China: Evidence from Firm-Level Data in 2007” Journal of Social Science, Vol.63, No.3, pp.121-141, 2011.
  • Asei Ito, “Industrial Relocation from Coastal China: An Empirical Analysis on ‘the Domestic Flying Geese Pattern’”, Journal of Chinese Economic Studies, Vol.10, No.1, 2013(in Japanese).
  • Asei Ito, “Growth and Expansion of Industrial Cluster in Pearl River Delta: A Case Study of Guzhen Lighting Industry”, Mita Journal of Economics, Vol.105, No.3, 2012(in Japanese).
  • Asei Ito, “The End of ‘Workshop of the World’?: New Challenges for China and the Global Manufacturing Equilibrium”, Newsletter of the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, 2013.
  • Asei Ito, “Industrial Agglomeration and Dispersion in China: Evidence from Province- and City-Level Data in the 2000s”, paper presented at the Asia Pacific Economic Association, conference on “China and the World Economy”, 15-16th, March, 2013, at the University of Tokyo.
  • “Multi-level and Multi-route Innovation Policies in China: A Programme Evaluation Based on Firm-level Data”,Millenial Asia, Vol 8, Issue 1,April 2017, pp.78-107 (Asei ITO, Zhuoran LI and Min WANG).
  • “Bottom-up Industrialization in the People's Republic of China: A Case Study of Industries Producing Small Things in Zhejiang”, Kazuko Furuta and Linda Grove eds., Imitation, Counterfeiting and the Quality of Goods in Modern Asian History, pp.245-281, Springer, October 2017.
  • “The Asian Economy: Contemporary Issues and Challenges”, London and New York: Routledge (Goto, Kenta, Tamaki Endo, Asei Ito ed.), July 2020.
  • “Japan’s Economic Pragmatism: Cooperating and Competing with China,” Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),Strategic Japan 2021,Working Paper,April 5,2021.
  • Cato, Susumu, et al. “The bright and dark sides of social media usage during the COVID-19 pandemic: Survey evidence from Japan.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 54 (2021): 102034.
  • Shoji, Masahiro, et al. “Prosociality and the uptake of COVID-19 contact tracing apps: survey analysis of intergenerational differences in Japan.” JMIR mHealth and uHealth 9.8 (2021): e29923.
  • Cato, Susumu, et al. “Social media infodemics and social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic: public good provisions under uncertainty.” Global Health Action 14.1 (2021): 1995958.
  • "Digital China: Policy Initiatives, Progress, and Challenges", in Xinxin Ma and Cheng Tang ed. Growth Mechanisms and Sustainable Development of the Chinese Economy: Comparison with Japanese Experiences, Springer, 2022.
  • "Catching the political leader's signal: Economic policy uncertainty and firm investment in China." Ito, Asei, Jaehwan Lim, and Hongyong Zhang, China Economic Review, (2023): 102035.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043951X23001207

Educational Activities

Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo Advanced World Economy II
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