Faculty of Economics, Kanagawa University
3-27-1 Rokkakubashi Kanagawaku Yokohama 221-8686, Japan

siwata (at) kanagawa-u (dot) ac (dot) jp

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Author identifiers:

• ORCID: 0000-0002-3161-7180
• Scopus Author ID: 19638451700
• ResearcherID: AAZ-5353-2020

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• KAKEN
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Degree:
Ph.D. in Economics, Osaka University, Japan, 2002

Research Fields:
Housing and Urban Economics

Recent Research Topics:

• Housing wealth effects on consumption and retirement
• Upstream financial transfers and downstream housing transfers
• Upstream in-kind transfers and downstream housing transfers
• Compact city policies and retail sales

Research Projects:

• Social differentiation in later life: exploring the interaction between wealth, education and retirement trajectories in Japan and the UK [Link]
  [2019 Tokyo workshop] | [2021 Bristol online workshop]
• An empirical study on compact city: Evaluating place-based policies in Japan [Link]

Recent Working Papers:

• The spillover effects of compact city policy on incumbent retailers: Evidence from Toyama City. [Abstract]
• Housing inheritance, financial assistance, and reciprocal interdependence. [Abstract]

Recent Publications:

• Housing wealth and consumption among elderly Japanese. Housing Studies, 37(3), 2022. [Abstract]
• Price competition in the spatial real estate market: allies or rivals? Spatial Economic Analysis, 14(2), 2019. [Abstract]

Tutorial:
GIS data visualization with R (in Japanese)