Koichiro Kimura

Recent Works

“The Technological Distance Between Chinese Firms: Deepening and Diversifying Technologies,” IDE Discussion Paper No. 876, 2023.

“Does the Product Characteristic Distance Get Closer or Not? Differentiation and Imitation in a Hotelling Model,” IDE Discussion Paper No. 869, 2023.

“How Do Firms Specialize? The technological positions of Chinese robotics firms,” Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 20 (4): pp. 339–353, 2022.
→ Summary: “Moving Closer or Not? Measuring the Technological Distance between Chinese and Global Firms,” IDE Research Columns, December 2022.

_{Header photo: At a bookstore in Beijing (2018)}