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Sébastien Lechevalier

Associate Professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Founder of Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS

105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris France

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• La grande transformation du capitalisme japonais (1980-2010), Presses de Sciences Po, 2011, 416 p. (Forewords by Robert Boyer, Afterwords by Ronald Dore, contributions of Arnaud Nanta and Yves Tiberghien). To be published in English by Routledge (Nissan Institute Series) in 2013.

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. of Economics, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches

Thèse

• The ‘Resegmentation’ of the Japanese Labor Market since the beginning of the 1990s : Employment Security Inequalities, Heterogeneity of Firms and Financial Factors, December 2003, EHESS PDF version

Habilitation à diriger les recherches

• Institutional changes, industrial dynamics and inequalities: the Japanese case, February 2013, Université Paris 1

Grants & Academic Honors

• Canon Foundation Fellowship, 2003-2004

• EHESS award - Special Mention to the PhD dissertation, 2004

• Grant Lavoisier (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 2002

• PhD Grant awarded by French Ministry of Education, 1997

Teaching and current supervision of master & doctoral theses

• “Asian capitalisms: diversity and institutional change” (http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2012/ue/2/), EHESS, 2012-2013

• “Industrial Dynamics in Japan and Korea : firms’ strategies and public policies” (http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2012/ue/215/), EHESS, 2012-2013

• Supervision of PhD dissertation:  "Financial Factors and Offshoring: Evidence from South Korea" by Haengsun Kim (EHESS)

• Supervision of master theses:
  - "Investigating the revival of the concept of 'Developmental State'" by Pauline Debanes (EHESS, mention ECD)
  -  "Analyzing inequalities since the early 1990s in Japan: labor issues and poverty by Yuichiro Kamijo (EHESS, mention AMO)
  - "Investment Climate and Firm Performance in China" by Michael Eingartner (EHESS, mention PPD)

Current Research Interests

• Is Deindustrialization inevitable? The future of manufacturing in Japan, Korea, Germany, and France (Research program of Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, 2011-2014)

• Understanding welfare diversity and evolution in Japan, Korea, and China. A regulationist interpretation (with Robert Boyer)

• Corporate finance and governance in Asia: understanding organizational and institutional changes  (with Takeo Hoshi and Hideaki Miyajima)

Publications

Articles in Review with referees

• “Diversity in patterns of industry evolution: how an “intrapreneurial” regime contributed to the emergence of the service robot industry in Japan” (withC. Storz & J. Nishimura) in Research policy (Section special “The path-dependent dynamics of emergence and evolution of new industries”, co-edited with J. Krafft, F. Quatraro & C. Storz), 2013, forthcoming.

• Co-editeur (avec B. Amable, S. Casper & C. Storz) d’un numéro special de Socio Economic Review on “Bringing Asia into the Comparative Capitalism Perspective”, April 2013, Volume 11, issue 2. PDF version

• “Wage and Productivity Differentials in Japan. The role of Labor Market Mechanisms” (avec Y. Kalantzis, & R. Kambayashi), Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2012, Volume 26, Issue 4. PDF version

• “Investigating Collaborative R&D Using Patent Data: The Case Study of Robot Technology in Japan”, (with Y. Ikeda & J. Nishimura), Managerial and Decision Economics, 2011, 32 (5): 305–323. PDF version

•  “Sectoral Price Dynamics in Japan: A Threshold Approach” (with N. Canry & J. Fouquau), Economics Bulletin, 2011, Volume 31, Issue 2: 1322-1335. PDF version

• “Inter-firm heterogeneity: nature, sources and consequences for industrial dynamics. An introduction” (with G. Dosi & A. Secchi), Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 19, Issue 6, November 2010, Special issue edited by G. Dosi, S. Lechevalier and A. Secchi, p. 1867-1890. PDF version

• “Why some firms persistently out-perform others? Investigating the interactions between innovation and exporting strategies” (with K. Ito), Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 19, Issue 6, November 2010, Special issue edited by G. Dosi, S. Lechevalier and A. Secchi, p. 1997-2040. PDF version

• “Price Dynamics in Japan (1981-2001): A Structural Analysis of Mechanisms in the Goods and Labor Markets” (with N. Canry & J. Fouquau), Brussels Economic Review, Volume 53, Issues 3-4, November 2010. PDF version

• “The effect of participation in government consortia on the R&D productivity of firms: A case study of robot technology in Japan”, (with Y. Ikeda & J. Nishimura), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, Volume 19, Issue 8, p. 669–692. PDF version

• “The Evolution of the Productivity Dispersion of Firms - A reevaluation of its determinants in the case of Japan”, (with K. Ito), Review of World Economics, 2009, Volume 145, Number 3. PDF version

• “The diversity of Capitalism and Heterogeneity of Firms – A Case Study of Japan during the Lost Decade”, Evolutionary and Institutional Economic Review 4 (1), Special Issue “The Evolution of Institutions and Organizations”, October 2007. PDF version

• “The Inequalities between Men and Women in the Japanese Labour Market. A Regulationist Approach” (with M. Arai), Economic Science (Keizai Kagaku), Vol.52 No.4, March 2005.

• “The Male / Female Inequality at the Roots of the Current Resegmentation of the Japanese Labor Market? Taking into Account Gender in the Analysis of the Toyotist Wage Labor Nexus” (with M. Arai), Le Mouvement social, 2005. In French.

• “The Current Resegmentation of the Japanese Labor Market in Historical Perspective”, CIPANGO (Academic review of INALCO), n°10 (Spring 2003). In French. “The Current Resegmentation of the Japanese Labor Market in Historical Perspective”, CIPANGO (Academic review of INALCO), n°10 (Spring 2003). In French.

Books and articles in Books

• La grande transformation du capitalisme japonais (1980-2010), Presses de Sciences Po, 2011, 416 p (Préface de Robert Boyer, Postface de Ronald Dore, contributions d'Arnaud Nanta et d'Yves Tiberghien). Version anglaise à paraître chez Routledge (Nissan Institute Series) en 2013.

• “Nor a pure abstraction, neither a simple generalisation: Japanese lessons for a re-foundation of political economy”, in Faire des Sciences Sociales (Volume 3: Généraliser), Editions de l’EHESS, 2012.

• “The Japanese firm: from the analysis of a model to the understanding of its increasing heterogeneity”, in Michael Dietrich and Jackie Krafft (dir.), Handbook on the Economics and Theory of the Firm, Edward Elgar, 2012 (chapitre 16, pp 194-208).

• “The Increasing Heterogeneity of Firms in Japanese Capitalism”, in R. Boyer, H. Uemura & A. Isogai (dir.), Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms, Routledge, Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, 2011. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415604406/)

•  “Will Toyota Save Japan (and the World…)?”, HEC Eurasia Institute, March 2005. In French. Extracts in Problèmes économiques (2006/1/18).

• “Japan and the Globalization. The Role of the Representations” (with K. Onaka) in E. Dourille-Feer & J. Nishikawa (dir.), Finance and Money at the Age of Globalization. A Comparative View on Europe and Asia, La Documentation française, 2004. In French.

• “The Globalization and the Crisis of the Japanese Model” (with K. Onaka), Forthcoming in Japon Pluriel, Editions Philippe Picquier, December 2003. In French.

Articles in reviews without referees

• “Japan. Does the Crisis contribute to reduce the inequalities between Men and Women?”, Chroniques internationales de l’IRES, (with M. Arai), March 2004. PDF version (in French)

• “Japan. 20 years of Men/Women equal employment policies”, Chroniques internationales de l’IRES, (with M. Arai), January 2004, reproduced in Problèmes économiques n °2854 (2004/6/23). PDF version (in French)

• “The Current Restructuring in the Japanese Electrical Machinery Sector: Do We Observe a Convergence Towards the American Way of Downsizing?”, Chroniques internationales de l’IRES, January 2002. In French. PDF version

• “Employment Security at the Center of the Japanese Compromise of crisis”, Chroniques internationales de l’IRES, January 2001. PDF version (in French)

Working Papers

• “Why Do Some Firms Persistently Outperform Others? An investigation of the interactions between innovation and export strategies” (with K. Ito), RIETI Discussion paper Series 10-E-037, June 2010. PDF version

• “Wage and Productivity Differentials in Japan. The role of Labor Market Mechanisms” (with D. Gatti & R. Kambayashi), Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series 127, Hitotsubashi University, March 2010. PDF version

• "The Evolution of the Productivity Dispersion of Firms - A reevaluation of its determinants in the case of Japan", (with K. Ito), RIETI Discussion paper Series 08-E-014, May 2008. PDF version

• “The effect of participation in government consortia on the R&D productivity of firms: A case study of robot technology in Japan”, (with Y. Ikeda & J. Nishimura), IER Discussion paper Series A No-500, Hitotsubashi University, March 2008. PDF version

• “Investigating Collaborative R&D Using Patent Data: The Case Study of Robot Technology in Japan”, (en collab. avec Y. Ikeda & J. Nishimura), IER Discussion paper Series A No-498, Hitotsubashi University, September 2007. PDF version

• “Price Dynamics in Japan (1981-2001): A Structural Analysis of Mechanisms in the Goods and Labor Markets”, (in collab. with N. Canry & J. Fouquau), IER Discussion paper Series A No-493, Hitotsubashi University, March 2007. PDF version

• “Collaborative R & D in the robot technology in Japan: an inquiry based on patent data analysis (1991-2004)”, (en collab. avec Y. Ikeda & J. Nishimura), CIRJE Discussion paper Series F-453, December 2006. PDF version

• “The Heterogeneity of Employment Adjustment Across Japanese firms. A Study Using Panel Data”, (with C. Hurlin), Couverture Orange N°2003-10, CEPREMAP. PDF version

• “The Contemporary increasing inequalities in Japan : An analysis in Term of Segmentation of the Labor Market and a Historical Perspective”, Couverture Orange N°2002-02, CEPREMAP. PDF version (in French)

Reports

• “Recent Changes in the Japanese Public Research and Innovation Policies - Lessons for Europe”, Research Project undertaken for European Union - Delegation of the European Commission to Japan, Tokyo, June 2006.

•  “Euro Zone : Wage Flexibility, Exchange Rate and Economic Policy”, Report for the French Senate, reprinted in Problèmes économiques (18 August 1999), (with L. Cadiou, S. Guichard, M. Maurel).

Opinion Tribunes in Newspapers

• “For a deeper relation between France and Japan” (with T. Yoshida), Ouest France (07/04/2011). Read the article (in French)

•  “The youth in the crisis: Japanese lessons” (with C. Van de Velde), Le Monde (17/3/2011). PDF version (in French)

• « The Toyota ‘model’ and its limits », Ouest France (02/04/2010). PDF version (in French)

• « The political reasons of the economic problems : how neoliberalism failed in Japan », Le Monde (14/11/2009), reprinted in Problèmes économiques n °2986 (6/1/2010) (in French). PDF version

• "Suicide at work: is the toyotism responsible?", Le Monde de l'Économie, (22/4/2008). PDF version (in French)

• “Freeters, NEETS: this is not only a problem in Japan. A comparison with Russia, India and France”, Interview published in the Series “How the World sees Japan” in Courrier Japon September 2007 (vol. 035) pp 69-73 (in Japanese) PDF version

• "How to reform the research policy? Lessons from Japan”, Le Monde de l’Économie, 13 February 2007. PDF version (in French)

• “Japan, Winner or Looser of the Globalization?” (with K. Onaka), Le Monde de l’Économie (5 May 2003), also published (in Japanese) in Kei (7/2003) “Nihon wa gulôbaluka no giseisha ka”.

• “Is the Japanese Labor Market Following the same Path than the European one ?”, Le Monde de l’Économie, 27 March 2001.

• “Which Crisis is the Japanese Economy Undergoing?”, Le Monde, 1st July 1998.

Vulgarization

• "The truth on the 'economic miracle'", interview published in L'Histoire, Special Issue "Le Japon des samouraïs aux mangas", no. 333, pp. 90-95, July-August 2008. In French.

Book Reviews

• Cargill, T. F. & Sakamoto, T., Japan Since 1980 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 2008, 314pp.) in Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 97, issue 1, pages 94-96

• Yves Tiberghien, Entrepreneurial States : Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea, (Cornell University Press, Studies in Political Economy, 2007)  in La Vie des Idées; le 02/03/2009. http://www.laviedesidees.fr/La-liberalisation-financiere-des.html PDF version (in French)

• Jean-Hervé Lorenzi (sous la direction de), La Guerre des capitalismes aura lieu (Le Cercle des Économistes, Editions Perrin, 2008) in La Vie des Idées; le 25/11/2008. http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Mondialisation-et-diversite-des.html PDF version (in French)

• Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, and Takatoshi Ito (eds.), Financial Policy and Central banking in Japan (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000, 273 pp) in Journal of East Asian Studies 6 (2006), pages 166-168

• Kozo Yamamura and Wolfgang Streeck (eds.), The End of Diversity? Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 424pp) in Financial History Review, 2006, vol. 13, issue 01, pages 141-143

• Sheridan, K.: Planning Japan's Economic Future (Palgrave. Macmillian, Basingstoke and New York 2005, 263 pp.) in Journal of Economics, 2006, vol. 89, issue 3, pages 291-294

• Robert Boyer & Toshio Yamada (eds.), Japanese Capitalism in Crisis: A Regulationist Interpretation (Oxford university Press, 2000) in Le Mouvement Social, vol. 210 (January - March 2005). PDF version (in French)

Dernière mise à jour : 19 mai 2013

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