Masahisa Fujita

Masahisa Fujita (藤田昌久, Fujita Masahisa, born in 1943) is a Japanese economist and professor at Kyoto University, who has studied regional science and Urban Economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy (New Economic Geography).

Fujita majored in urban planning as an undergraduate at Kyoto University. He studied regional science in University of Pennsylvania under Walter Isard and obtained a Ph.D.(in Regional Science) from University of Pennsylvania in 1972. He taught at University of Pennsylvania for about 20 years, and has been the faculty of Institute of Economic Research (KIER) Kyoto University since 1995, where he served as Director in 1999. He was the President of Institute of Developing Economies during 2003 to 2007, and proposed a basic concept of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia to JETRO and METI.In 2007, he became President and Chief Research Officer of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Fujita is known as one of the pioneers of New Economic Geography, research of Spatial Economy as well as Paul Krugman. Fujita is the recipient of the 1983 Tord Palander Prize, the 1998 Walter Isard Award in regional science, and also awarded First Alonso Prize with Paul Krugman.

Authored or co-authored

Economics of Agglomeration - Cities, industrial Location, and Regional Growth 2nd Ed(with Jacques-Francois Thisse)(2013, Cambridge University Press)(ISBN 9780521171960)
Economics of Agglomeration - Cities, industrial Location, and Regional Growth(with Jacques-Francois Thisse)(2002, Cambridge University Press)(ISBN 0-521-80524-4)
The Spatial Economy - Cities, Regions and International Trade (with Paul Krugman, Anthony Venables)(July 1999, MIT press)(ISBN 0-262-06204-6)
Urban Economic Theory - Land use and city size(August 1989, Cambridge University Press)(ISBN 0-521-34662-2)
Spatial Development Planning(1978, North-Holland Pub. Co)(ISBN 0-444-85157-7)

Selected Work

Masahisa Fujita (1976). "Spatial patterns of urban growth: Optimum and market". Journal of Urban Economics 3 (3): 209–241. doi:10.1016/0094-1190(76)90041-3. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Masahisa Fujita (1981). "Location of firms with input transactions". Environment and Planning A 13 (11): 1401–1414. doi:10.1068/a131401. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Takahiro Akita; Masahisa Fujita (1982). "Spatial development processes with renewal in a growing city". Environment and Planning A 14 (2): 205–223. doi:10.1068/a140205. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Masahisa Fujita (1982). "Spatial patterns of residential development". Journal of Urban Economics 12 (1): 22–52. doi:10.1016/0094-1190(82)90003-1. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
C H Yang; Masahisa Fujita (1983). "Urban spatial structure with open space". Environment and Planning A 15 (1): 67–84. doi:10.1068/a150067. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Masahisa Fujita; Jacques François Thisse (1986). "Spatial Competition with a Land Market: Hotelling and Von Thunen Unified". Review of Economic Studies 53 (5): 819–841. doi:10.2307/2297721. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
H Ogawa; Masahisa Fujita (1989). "Nonmonocentric urban configurations in a two-dimensional space". Environment and Planning A 21 (3): 363–374. doi:10.1068/a210363. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Masahisa Fujita; Masuo Kashiwadani (1989). "Testing the efficiency of urban spatial growth: A case study of Tokyo". Journal of Urban Economics 25 (2): 156–192. doi:10.1016/0094-1190(89)90033-8. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Masahisa Fujita; Jacques François Thisse (1991). "Spatial duopoly and residential structure". Journal of Urban Economics 30 (1): 27–47. doi:10.1016/0094-1190(91)90043-7. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Marcus Berliant; Masahisa Fujita (1992). "Alonso's Discrete Population Model of Land Use: Efficient Allocations and Competitive Equilibria". International Economic Review 33 (3): 535–566. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Hesham M Abdel-Rahman; Masahisa Fujita (1993). "Specialization and Diversification in a System of Cities". Journal of Urban Economics 33 (2): 189–222. doi:10.1006/juec.1993.1013. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Masahisa Fujita; Jacques François Thisse (1993). "Technological Linkages and Efficient Location of Indivisible Activities: Koopmans - Beckmann and von Thunen Unified". Journal of Urban Economics 34 (2): 118–141. doi:10.1006/juec.1993.1030. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
C-M Lee; Masahisa Fujita (1997). "Efficient configuration of a greenbelt: theoretical modelling of greenbelt amenity". Environment and Planning A 29 (11): 1999–2017. doi:10.1068/a291999. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Masahisa Fujita; Jacques François Thisse; Yves Zenou (1997). "On the Endogeneous Formation of Secondary Employment Centers in a City". Journal of Urban Economics 41 (3): 337–357. doi:10.1006/juec.1996.2002. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Masahisa Fujita; Jacques François Thisse (2006). "Globalization And The Evolution Of The Supply Chain: Who Gains And Who Loses?". International Economic Review 47 (3): 811–836. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2354.2006.00397.x. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
Marcus Berliant; Masahisa Fujita (2008). "Knowledge Creation As A Square Dance On The Hilbert Cube". International Economic Review 49 (4): 1251–1295. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00512.x. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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