Profile Overview
Keita Oikawa
Research FellowProfile
Keita Oikawa worked as an official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of the Japanese Government. He is experienced in various policy departments, including the Macroeconomic Affairs Division of the Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau (EIPB) of the METI, the Insurance Business Division of the Supervisory Bureau of the Financial Services Agency, the Industrial Structure Policy Division of the EIPB of the METI, the Office for Pandemic Influenza and New Infection Diseases Preparedness and Response of the Cabinet Secretariat, the Economic and Industrial Policy Division of the EIPB of the METI, and the Information Policy Division of the Commerce and Information Policy Bureau of the METI.
Expertise
- Macroeconomics
- International Economics
- Industrial Organization
Education
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Davis, CA USA |
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| 2006 | M.A. in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Japan |
| 2004 | B.A. in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Japa |
Experience
| 2024-Present | Research Fellow |
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| 2020-2024 | Economist |
| 2018-2020 | Deputy Director |
| 2016-2018 | Deputy Director |
| 2014-2016 | Deputy Director |
| 2011 | Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI |
| 2010-2011 | Office for Pandemic Influenza and New Infection Diseases Preparedness and Response, Cabinet Secretariat |
| 2009-2010 | Macro-Economic Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI |
| 2007-2009 | Economic and Industrial Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI |
| 2006-2007 | Information Policy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI |
Teaching Experience
| 2020 | Lecturer School of Economics and Business Administration, Yokohama City University (Business Cycle Theory). |
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| 2013-2014 | Teaching Assistant |
ERIA Publications
- ASEAN Data Governance: Implications for the Digital Economy Framework Agreement
- Political Economy of East Asian Economic Integration: The Process of the RCEP Negotiations and Beyond
- Current Status of ASEAN Data Governance and Its Implications for the Digital Economy Framework Agreement
- The Digital Divide Amongst MSMEs in ASEAN
- Economics of Happiness and ASEAN’s People-Centric Smart City
- Future of Data Governance in Asia and Operationalisation of ‘Data Free Flow with Trust'
- Survey for Framework Building of ‘People-Centric’ Smart City Model in ASEAN Countries
- Use Case Concretisation: Visualisation of Carbon Footprint
ERIA Chapter
- Chapter 6: Recommendations for the ASEAN–Japan Economic Partnership for a Sustainable and Resilient Future - (Chapters)
- Chapter 5: The Current ASEAN–Japan Economic Partnership - (Chapters)
- Chapter 4: Survey on International Economic Cooperation - (Chapters)
- Chapter 3: ASEAN–Japan Cooperation in the New Emerging Agenda - (Chapters)
- Chapter 2: Survey on the Doing-Business Environment in ASEAN - (Chapters)
- Foreword, List of Authors, Executive Summary - (Front Matters)
- - (Full Book)
Select Publications
- The Global Value Chain and the Competitiveness of Asian Countries, (with Kozo Kiyota and Katsuhiro Yoshioka), Asian Economic Papers, vol. 16(3), pp.257-281, 2017.
- Over-the-Counter Trade and the Value of Assets as Collateral, (with Athanasios Geromichalos, Jiwon Lee, and Seungduck Lee), Economic Theory, vol. 62(3), pp. 443-475, 2016.
- Tax Burden and Firm Behavior, (with Yohei Kobayashi, Koichi Kume, and Tetsuro Sone), Quarterly of Social Security Research (Kikan Shakai Hosho Kenkyu), vol. 50(4), pp. 446-463, 2015 (in Japanese).
Working Papers
- Development of Study on Current Account Imbalances and Foreign Sectors in Macro-econometric Models, (with Shogo Tanaka, Takanori Okuda, and Yoshiyuki Nakazono), RIETI Policy Discussion Paper Series 11-P-017, 2011 (in Japanese).
- Macro-econometric Models and the Outline of the MEAD-RIETI Model, (with Mitsuhiro Fukuyama, Masayoshi Yoshihara, and Yoshiyuki Nakazono), RIETI Discussion Paper Series 10-J-045, 2010 (in Japanese).