Hodaka Morita

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Affiliation: Professor, Institute of Economic Research Research Division of Theories in Economics and Statistics, Hitotsubashi University

Degree: Ph.D. (Economics)(コーネル大学)
M.B.A.(コーネル大学)
Ph.D. (Economics)(Cornell University)
M.B.A.(Cornell University)

Researcher number: 00791956
J-GLOBAL ID: 201801004447834590
researchmap Member ID: 7000022608

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Economic policy /

Research History

Feb, 2018 - Present

Professor, Institute of Economic Research Research Division of Theories in Economics and Statistics, Hitotsubashi University
Jan, 2013 - Feb, 2018

Professor, School of Economics, UNSW Business School, The University of New South Wales
Jan, 2009 - Dec, 2013

Australian Research Fellow, Research Council, Australian
Jan, 2008 - Dec, 2012

Associate Professor, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales
Jul, 2004 - Dec, 2007

Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales
Jul, 1999 - Jun, 2004

Assistant Professor, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

Education

- May, 2000

Graduate School, Division of Economics, Cornell University
- May, 1993

Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
- Mar, 1985

Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo

Papers

Firm-Specificity of Human Capital: Process of its Endogenous Determination

Hodaka Morita, Kumpei Akiyama, Tomohiro Ara, Shosuke Noguchi, Arghya Ghosh

73(2) 97-116, Apr, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Fairness concerns and job assignment to positions with different surplus（共著）

Katarína Danková, Hodaka Morita, Maroš Servátka, Le Zhang

Southern Economic Journal, 88(4) 1490-1516, Apr, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Welfare improving horizontal mergers in successive oligopoly (jointly worked)

Arghya Ghosh, Hodaka Morita, Chengsi Wang

Journal of Industrial Economics, 70(1) 89-118, Mar, 2022 Peer-reviewed
FDI and quality-enhancing technology spillovers （共著）

Hodaka Morita, Xuan Nguyen

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 79 102787-102787, Dec, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Parallel Imports and Repair Services

Jota Ishikawa, Hodaka Morita, Hiroshi Mukunoki

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 172 137-160, Apr, 2020 Peer-reviewed
FirmSpecificity of Human Capital : Process of its Endogenous Determination (jointly worked)

70(4) 312-330, Oct, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Investment in Outside Options as Opportunistic Behavior: An Experimental Investigation (jointly worked)

Hodaka Morita, Maroš Servátka

Southern Economic Journal, 85(2) 457-484, Oct, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Technology spillovers, intellectual property rights, and export-platform FDI

Arghya Ghosh, Hodaka Morita, Xuan Nguyen

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 151 171-190, Jul 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Employee Involvement Under Rising Competitive Pressure: Evidence from Two Manufacturing Firms in Japan

Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato, Hodaka Morita

Daphne Berry and Takao Kato, eds., Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies, 105-119, May, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Knowledge Transfer and Partial Equity Ownership (jointly worked)

Arghya Ghosh, Hodaka Morita

Rand Journal of Economics, 48(4) 1044-1067, Nov, 2017 Peer-reviewed
U.S.-Japanese Differences in Employment Practices: New Explanations and Predictions

Hodaka Morita

Ajit Mishra and Tridip Ray, eds., Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development, Oxford University Press, Nov, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Training and intrinsic motivation in nonprofit and for-profit organizations

Jed DeVaro, Nan Maxwell, Hodaka Morita

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION, 139 196-213, Jul, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Incremental innovation and competitive pressure in the presence of discrete innovation

Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato, Hodaka Morita

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION, 135 1-14, Mar, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Does Group Identity Prevent Inefficient Investment in Outside Options? An Experimental Investigation (jointly worked)

Hodaka Morita, Maroš Servátka

Research in Experimental Economics, 19 105-126, Jan, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Trade liberalization and aftermarket services for imports

Jota Ishikawa, Hiroshi Mukunoki, Hodaka Morita

ECONOMIC THEORY, 62(4) 719-764, Oct, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Formal Contracts, Relational Contracts, and the Threat-Point Effect

Hideshi Itoh, Hodaka Morita

AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS, 7(3) 318-346, Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Multiskilling (jointly worked)

Jed DeVaro, Hodaka Morita

Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 5:1, Jan, 2015
New implications of Lazear's skill-weights approach

Hodaka Morita, Clare Noone

ECONOMIC MODELLING, 43 476-479, Dec, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Internal Promotion and External Recruitment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (lead article) (jointly worked)

Jed DeVaro, Hodaka Morita

Journal of Labor Economics, 31(2) 227-269, Apr, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Group identity and relation-specific investment: An experimental investigation

Hodaka Morita, Maros Servatka

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 58 95-109, Feb, 2013 Peer-reviewed

Presentations

Link between Product and Labor Market Competition: A New Theoretical Analysis

Hodaka Morita

Asia Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference 2022, Dec 11, 2022
Link between Product and Labor Market Competition: A New Theoretical Analysis

Hodaka Morita

Organisational Economics Workshop '22, Dec 8, 2022
部分的株式所有を伴う企業間提携の理論分析

森田穂高

CPRC（競争政策研究センター）第5回研究成果発表会, Mar 4, 2022 Invited
部分的株式所有の理論分析と含意

森田穂高

RIETI研究会（経済産業研究所）, Jul 16, 2021 Invited
Production, Labor Turnover, and Training: New Implications of Competition and Market Power

Jul 9, 2021 Invited
Production, Labor Turnover, and Training: New Implications of Competition and Market Power

Hodaka Morita

Jul 6, 2021 Invited
Firm-Specificity of Asset, Managerial Capability, and Labor Market Competition

森田穂高

TPLS12 (The Trans Pacific Labor Seminar), May 18, 2019
Vertical Learning Alliances and Parital Equity Ownership in the Presence of Performance Spillovers

Hodaka Morita

3rd Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference, Dec 14, 2018, The Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Society (APIOS)
Firm-Specificity of Asset, Managerial Capability, and Labor Market Competition

Hodaka Morita

Tokyo Labor Economics Workshop, Jul 6, 2018, 東京労働経済学研究会
Investment in Outside Options as Opportunistic Behavior: An Experimental Investigation

Hodaka Morita, Maroš Servátka

Kochi University of Technology Seminar, Apr 18, 2018
Firm-specificity of asset, managerial capability, and labor market competition

Hodaka Morita

The Osaka Workshop on Economics of Institutions and Organization, Feb 19, 2018
Firm-Specificity of Asset, Managerial Capability, and Labor Market Competition

Hodaka Morita

2nd Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference, Dec, 2017, The Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Society (APIOS)

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Research on Inter-Firm Alliances Accompanied by Partial Equity Ownership: New Industrial Organizational Analyses and Implications for Competition Policy

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2026

Hodaka Morita, Tomohiro Ara, Susumu Sato
Industrial Organization Economics from New perspectives: Incorporating Internal Labor markets

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Home-Returning Researcher Development Research), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Home-Returning Researcher Development Research), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2023

Hodaka Morita, Jota Ishikawa, Hideshi Itoh, Ryo Kambayashi, Koji Kotani, Susumu Sato, Tuyoshi Tsuru, Cheng-Tao Tang
Telework in Post-Covid 19 Era: New Work Styles and Their Effects on the Society

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jul, 2021 - 2023

Hodaka Morita, Koji Kotani
Competition and Intrinsic Motivation in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations: Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Centre for Social Impact Research Grants Scheme, “Competition and Intrinsic Motivation in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations: Theory, Evidence, and Policy”, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW, Jan, 2016

Hodaka Morita, Jed DeVaro, Arghya Ghosh, Alberto Motta
Economic Analyses of Partial Equity Ownership Arrangements: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, Jan, 2012 - Dec, 2014
Industrial Economics Network

Australian School of Business, UNSW, Jan, 2011 - Dec, 2014
Partial Equity Ownership and Knowledge Transfer: An Economic Analysis of Strategic Alliances

Australian Research Council Discovery Projects and Australian Research Fellowship, Jan, 2009 - Dec, 2013
Workshop on Frontier Topics in Economics: Building Research Synergies in Asia-Pacific Region

UNSW Contestable Funding for Support of International Strategic Projects, Jan, 2011 - Dec, 2011
Economic Analyses of Competitor Collaboration: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, Jan, 2008 - Dec, 2010
Does Vertical Integration Alleviate Hold-up Problem?

College of Business and Economics Contestable Research Grant, University of Canterbury, Jan, 2009 - Dec, 2009
Applied Microeconomics Workshop with Japanese Universities

UNSW Contestable Funding for Support of International Strategic Projects, Jan, 2009 - Dec, 2009
Human Capital Acquisition and Product-market Competition: Theory and Evidence

Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, Jan, 2006 - Dec, 2008
Economic Analyses of Platform Sharing

Faculty Research Grants Program, The University of New South Wales, Jan, 2005 - Dec, 2006
A New Perspective on the Economic Analysis of the Holdup Problem

Special research Grants, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, The University of New South Wales, Jan, 2005 - Dec, 2005
Economic Analyses of Platform Sharing

Faculty Research Grants Program, The University of New South Wales, Jan, 2005 - Dec, 2005
Firm Survival, Specific Human Capital, and Entry Regulation: A New Perspective on Economic Analysis of Industrial Policy

Faculty Research Grants Program, The University of New South Wales, Jan, 2004 - Dec, 2004
The Demand and Supply of Retirement Provision

Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, Jan, 2002 - Dec, 2004
Comparative Institutional Analysis of Japanese Business and Government

Special Research Grants, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, The University of New South Wales, Jan, 2003 - Dec, 2003
Durable Goods and Monopoly Maintenance

Special Research Grants, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, The University of New South Wales, Jan, 2002 - Dec, 2002
Impacts of the Information-technology Revolution on Japanese Manufacturer-suppliers Relationships: Theory and Evidence

University Research Support Program, The University of New South Wales, Jan, 2001 - Dec, 2001

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