Prof. Makoto Tawada

Professor Makoto Tawada is a Japanese economist and Professor Emeritus at Aichi Gakuin University. His research focuses primarily on international trade theory, economic policy, and theoretical economics, with particular attention to comparative advantage, public infrastructure, trade policy, and welfare effects.

He has made significant contributions to the theoretical analysis of international trade, including the relationship between public infrastructure and trade patterns, gains from trade, and government policy. His research has been published in academic journals such as the Canadian Journal of Economics, Review of International Economics, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science.

Professor Tawada is also the author of Production Structure and International Trade (1989), a monograph examining topics in the pure theory of international trade.