Yuki Takayama

Working papers

1. Metropolitan scale, direct core dependence, and hierarchical integration within Japan's urban employment areas

   with Mingzhi Xiao

2. Parameter sensitivity analysis of hierarchical spatial economy: Trade strategy around Brexit

   with Kiyohiro Ikeda, Yosuke Kogure, Hiroki Aizawa [arXiv]

3. Opportunity-normalized residence–workplace matching and the scale-sensitive structure of urban commuting

   with Mingzhi Xiao [arXiv]

4. When does tourism raise land prices? Threshold effects, superstar cities, and policy lessons from Japan

   with Mingzhi Xiao, Takara Sakai, Daisuke Murakami [arXiv]

5. The role of high-speed rail in reshaping Chinese county-level economic structures

   with Mingzhi Xiao

6. Do ride-hailing services compete with or complement mass transit? A multimodal morning commute problem

   with Takao Dantsuji, Zhi-Chun Li

7. Quantifying congestion externalities in road networks: A structural estimation approach using stochastic evolutionary model

   with Shota Fujishima, Takara Sakai [RIETI DP]

8. Origin of power laws and their spatial fractal structure for city-size distributions

   with Tomoya Mori, Takashi Akamatsu, Minoru Osawa [arXiv]

Work in progress

1. Congestion pricing, housing markets, and urban mechanisms: A spatial-temporal empirical study from New York City

   with Mingzhi Xiao, Takara Sakai

2. Spatial sorting of heterogeneous workers across cities

   with Tatsuhito Kono

3. A model of a system of cities with spatio-temporal agglomeration externalities

Selected publications

Books

1. Ikeda, K. and Takayama, Y. (2024)

   Bifurcation theory of pattern formation in economic geography

   Springer (Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics).

   link

Journal articles

1. Li, Z.-C., Liu, W.-J., de Palma, A., Takayama, Y., and Dantsuji, T. (2026)

   Autonomous vehicles, urban deployment, and welfare effects

   Journal of Regional Science.

   DOI THEMA WP

2. Satsukawa, K. and Takayama, Y. (2026)

   A bottleneck model with shared autonomous vehicles: Scale economies and price regulations

   Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Vol.192, 105868.

   DOI

3. Xiao, M. and Takayama, Y. (2026)

   The effectiveness and limits of time-of-use pricing in public EV charging networks

   Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Vol.159, 105497.

   DOI

4. Akamatsu, T., Mori, T., Osawa, M., and Takayama, Y. (2026)

   Spatial scale of agglomeration and dispersion: Number, spacing, and the spatial extent of cities

   Journal of Urban Economics, 103907.

   DOI arXiv

5. Sugimoto, T., Takayama, Y., and Takagi, A. (2025)

   A quantitative spatial model for evaluating transport-induced spatial reorganization

   Transport Policy, Vol.172, 103738.

   DOI

6. Dantsuji, T. and Takayama, Y. (2024)

   Hypercongestion, autonomous vehicles, and urban spatial structure

   Transportation Science, Vol.58, No.6, pp.1352-1370.

   DOI arXiv

7. Dantsuji, T., Takayama, Y., and Fukuda, D. (2023)

   Perimeter control in a mixed bimodal bathtub model

   Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol.173, pp.267-291.

   DOI

8. Ikeda, K., Takayama, Y., Gaspar, J. M., and Osawa, M. (2022)

   Perturbed cusp catastrophe in a population game: Spatial economics with locational asymmetries

   Journal of Regional Science, Vol.62, No.4, pp.961-980.

   DOI

9. Ikeda, K., Osawa, M., and Takayama, Y. (2022)

   Time evolution of city distributions in Germany: Group-theoretic spectrum analysis

   Networks and Spatial Economics, Vol.22, pp.125-151.

   DOI

10. Kotone, K., Taniguchi, K., Nakamura, K., and Takayama, Y. (2021)

    Estimation of potential economic losses due to flooding considering variations of spatial distribution of houses and firms in a city

    Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.16, No.3, pp.329-342.

    DOI

11. Takayama, Y. (2020)

    Who gains and who loses from congestion pricing in a monocentric city with a bottleneck?

    Economics of Transportation, Vol.24, 100189.

    DOI WP (2020) ver. WP (2019) ver.

12. Takayama, Y., Ikeda, K., and Thisse, J.-F. (2020)

    Stability and sustainability of urban systems under commuting and transportation costs

    Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol.84, 103553.

    DOI

13. Takayama, Y. and Kuwahara, M. (2020)

    Scheduling preferences, parking competition, and bottleneck congestion: A model of trip timing and parking location choices by heterogeneous commuters

    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Vol.117, 102677.

    DOI

14. Ikeda, K., Kogure, Y., Aizawa, H., and Takayama, Y. (2019)

    Invariant patterns for replicator dynamics on a hexagonal lattice

    International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol.29, No.6, 1930014.

    DOI

    *Best Articles of 2019

15. Ikeda, K., Onda, M., and Takayama, Y. (2019)

    Bifurcation theory of a racetrack economy in a spatial economy model

    Networks and Spatial Economics, Vol.19, No.1, pp.57-82.

    DOI

16. Ikeda, K., Takayama, Y., Onda, M., and Murakami, D. (2018)

    Group-theoretic spectrum analysis of population distribution in Southern Germany and Eastern USA

    International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol.28, No.14, 1830045.

    DOI

17. Ikeda, K., Aizawa, H., Kogure, Y., and Takayama, Y. (2018)

    Stability of bifurcating patterns of spatial economy models on a hexagonal lattice

    International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol.28, No.11, 1850138.

    DOI

18. Ikeda, K., Onda, M., and Takayama, Y. (2018)

    Spatial period doubling, invariant pattern, and break point in economic agglomeration in two dimensions

    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol.92, pp.129-152.

    DOI

19. Takayama, Y. and Kuwahara, M. (2017)

    Bottleneck congestion and residential location of heterogeneous commuters

    Journal of Urban Economics, Vol.100, pp.65-79.

    DOI Corrigendum

20. Akamatsu, T., Fujishima, S., and Takayama, Y. (2017)

    Discrete-space agglomeration model with social interactions: Multiplicity, stability, and continuous limit of equilibria

    Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol.69, pp.22-37.

    DOI

21. Osawa, M., Akamatsu, T., and Takayama, Y. (2017)

    Harris & Wilson (1978) model revisited: Spatial period doubling bifurcation in urban retail model

    Journal of Regional Science, Vol.57, No.3, pp.442-466.

    DOI

22. Ikeda, K., Murota, K., Akamatsu, T., and Takayama, Y. (2017)

    Agglomeration patterns in a long narrow economy of a new economic geography model: Analogy to a racetrack economy

    International Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.13, No.1, pp.113-145.

    DOI Matlab Code

23. Ikeda, K., Murota, K., and Takayama, Y. (2017)

    Stable economic agglomeration patterns in two dimensions: Beyond the scope of central place theory

    Journal of Regional Science, Vol.57, No.1, pp.132-172.

    DOI

24. Takayama, Y. (2015)

    Bottleneck congestion and distribution of work start times: The economics of staggered work hours revisited

    Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol.81, No.3, pp.830-847.

    DOI

25. Ikeda, K., Murota, K., Akamatsu, T., Kono, T., and Takayama, Y. (2014)

    Self-organization of hexagonal agglomeration patterns in new economic geography models

    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol.99, pp.35-52.

    DOI

26. Akamatsu, T., Takayama, Y., and Ikeda, K. (2012)

    Spatial discounting, Fourier, and racetrack economy: A recipe for the analysis of spatial agglomeration models

    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol.36, No.11, pp.1729-1759.

    DOI