YIMING ZHOU

Last Updated :2025/04/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
Web Site
https://sites.google.com/view/yimingzhou
E-mail
zhou [at] hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
Yiming Zhou earned a PhD degree in Information Sciences from Tohoku University. His research interests mainly lie in the area of urban and regional economics and international trade theory. His work has been published in highly regarded academic journals including the Journal of Regional Science, the Economics Letters, and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Xiamen University
  • TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

Research Fields

  • Social sciences;Economics;Economic policy

Research Keywords

  • Urban spatial structure, Economic agglomeration, Urban environment, International trade theory

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Urban Economics
  2. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Year, Seminar
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Special Lectures(Regional Economics)
  4. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences
  5. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences
  6. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Spatial Economics
  7. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Topics
  8. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Topics
  9. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Seminar on Economics Program

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Industrial agglomeration, firm heterogeneity, and environmental pollution, Portuguese Economic Journal, 202503
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  2. Toward sustainable cities: Where the electric vehicle users reside matters, Economics Letters, 235, 202402
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  3. Financial Crisis and Within-City Heterogeneity in Land Prices: The Role of REIT Penetration, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 20231108
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  4. Industrial specialization patterns across cities, agglomeration of skilled labour and technological growth, Spatial Economic Analysis, 17(3), 311-331, 202201
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  5. Inter-industry trade and heterogeneous firms: country size matters, The Japanese Economic Review, 74(1), 57-81, 202011
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  6. Urban agglomeration and heterogeneous firms: a synthesis of Helpman and Melitz, Journal of Economics, 130(3), 275-296, 202008
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  7. Public housing provision and housing vacancies in Japan, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 53(101038), 201909
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  8. Spatial inequality and urban costs: Revisiting the home market effect, Journal of Regional Science, 59(2), 302-321, 201903
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  9. Market size and wages, Economics Letters, 174, 153-156, 201901
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  10. Home market effect, land rent, and welfare, Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 201901
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  11. Heterogeneous firms, urban costs and agglomeration, International Journal of Economic Theory, 16(3), 329-348, 201809
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  12. Urban wage inequality and economic agglomeration, The Annals of Regional Science, 59(2), 475-494, 201709
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  13. Offshoring, globalization, and welfare, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 31, 75-93, 2015
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Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Financial development, inequality, and trade, Yiming Zhou, The 18th Australasian Trade Workshop, 2025/03/16, Without Invitation, English, Quensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
  2. Optimal location of public charging stations in a monocentric city, Yiming Zhou, Tatsuhito Kono, 29th Annual Conference of SEEPS, 2024/09/14, Without Invitation, English, SEEPS, Suita City
  3. Finance, Trade costs and Trade, Yiming Zhou, 57th Canadian Economics Association Meetings, 2023/05/30, Without Invitation, English, Canadian Economic Association, Winnipeg, Canada

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. JSPS KAKENHI, Spatial impact of carbon pricing in Japan: A quantitative spatial equilibrium analysis, 2024, 2027
  2. JSPS KAKENHI, Toward sustainable cities: An economic analysis of the impact of electric vehicle adoption on urban spatial structures, 2023, 2025

Social Activities

History as Peer Reviews of Academic Papers

  1. 2025, Japanese Economic Review, Reviewer
  2. 2024, Annals of Regional Science, Reviewer
  3. 2022, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  4. 2022, Annals of Regional Science
  5. 2022, Journal of Economics
  6. 2021, Papers in Regional Science
  7. 2021, Journal of Regional Science