Kensuke Suzuki

Assistant Professor of Economics · Clark University

About

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Clark University. My research focuses on international trade and spatial economics, with recent work on the labor-market and regional implications of foreign employment in Japan.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University. You can download my CV, and find course materials on my Teaching page.

Publications

Working Papers

• Gains from Foreign Employment: Regional and Sectoral Implications
  Job Market Paper. Joint with Yasuhiro Doi. [PDF]
• Trade Policy and Structural Change
  Joint with Hayato Kato and Motoaki Takahashi. [PDF]
• Trade Costs, Entry Costs, and the Spatial Distribution of Chinese Manufacturing Firms
  Joint with Zeyi Qian and Junfu Zhang. [PDF]

Refereed Articles

• Foreign-Native Wage Gap and Tasks: Evidence from the Japanese Labor Market
  Economics Letters, 255, 112571 (2025). Joint with Yasuhiro Doi. [PDF]
• Industrial Development in Malaysia and Singapore: Empirical Analysis with a Multiple-Cone Heckscher–Ohlin Model
  Review of Development Economics, 23(2) (2019). Joint with Yasuhiro Doi. [PDF]
• Public Perceptions, Individual Characteristics, and Preventive Behaviors for COVID-19 in Six Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study
  Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine (2021). [DOI]

Other Working Papers

• Trade Liberalization and Intermediate Imports: Evidence from Chinese Firm-Level Data
  [PDF]
• Dynamic Decision of Import: Evidence from Chinese Firm-Level Data, 2000–2006
  [PDF]
• Empirical Test of the Single- and Multiple-Cone Heckscher–Ohlin Model
  [PDF]
• Institutional Agenda in the European Cross-Border Labor Market and Initiatives of an Employment Agency in Germany
  In Japanese. Joint with Yasuhiro Doi. [PDF]

Teaching

Course materials, slides, syllabi, and data & AI resources are collected on my Teaching page.

Contact

• KSuzuki@clarku.edu
• Jonas Clark Hall, Room 221 · Department of Economics, Clark University, Worcester, MA