Yukako Ono formerly was an economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago until November 2010. Ono conducts research in the area of industrial organization and urban economics. Her research interests include the location of corporate headquarters, firms' decision to outsource business services, and the organization of temporary help service industries.
Ono's research has been published in the Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Urban Economics and Regional Science and Urban Economics, as well as Economic Perspectives, the Chicago Fed's quarterly research publication.
Ono received a B.A. in business and commerce from Keio University, Japan and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Brown University.
Yukako Ono
Chicago Fed Letter
- Why Do Firms Use Temporary Workers?
Yukako Ono | 2009 | No. 260 | March
Download - The Changing Relationship between Headquarters and Cities (Special Issue)
Thomas H. Klier, Yukako Ono, William Testa | 2005 | No. 212a | March
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Economic Perspectives
- Professional Employer Organizations: What Are They, Who Uses Them and Why Should We Care?
Britton Lombardi, Yukako Ono | 2008 | Vol. 32 | 4th Quarter
Download - Who Are Temporary Nurses?
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Yukako Ono | 2007 | Vol. 31 | 1st Quarter
Download - Outsourcing, firm size, and product complexity: Evidence from credit unions
Yukako Ono, Victor Stango | 2005 | Vol. 29 | February | 1st Quarter
Download - Temporary help services and the volatility of industry output
Yukako Ono, Alexei Zelenev | 2003 | Vol. 27 | May | 2nd Quarter
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Working Papers
- Firm Boundaries and Buyer-supplier Match in Market Transaction: IT System Procurement of U.S. Credit Unions
Yukako Ono, Junichi Suzuki | 2009 | No. 2009-22 | November
Download - Demand Volatility and the Lag between the Growth of Temporary and Permanent Employment
Sainan Jin, Yukako Ono, Qinghua Zhang | 2007 | No. 2007-19 | October
Download - Manufacturing Plants’ Use of Temporary Workers: An Analysis Using Census Micro Data (REVISED, February 2010)
Yukako Ono, Daniel G. Sullivan | 2006 | No. 2006-24
Download - Supplier Switching and Outsourcing
Yukako Ono, Victor Stango | 2005 | No. 2005-22
Download - Where Do Manufacturing Firms Locate Their Headquarters?
J. Vernon Henderson, Yukako Ono | 2004 | No. 2004-29 - Spatial Organization of Firms
Kristin Aarland, James Davis, J. Vernon Henderson, Yukako Ono | 2003 | No. 2003-30 - Outsourcing Business Services and the Role of Central Administrative Offices
Yukako Ono | 2002 | No. 2002-01 - Outsourcing Business Service and the Scope of Local Markets
Yukako Ono | 2001 | No. 2001-09
