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What's New

• New website: https://httrksk.github.io/

• October 15, 2020: My paper "Welfare Implications of Sequential Entry with Heterogeneous Firms" was published online as a working paper (MPRA). [Link PDF] 

• April 1, 2020: I have moved to School of Business, Aoyama Gakuin University.

• December 11, 2019: My paper "Effective Leadership Selection in Complementary Teams" was accepted for the publication in Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. 

• July 9, 2019: My paper "Leadership by Showing Generosity" was presented at PET 2019 Conference (at Pôle Européen de Gestion et d’Economie, Strasbourg, France).

• February 8, 2019: My paper "Team production, synergy effect, and leadership" was presented at Irvine-Japan Conference on Public Policy (at University of California, Irvine).

• December 3, 2018: My paper "Heterogeneous Consumer Expectations and Monopoly Pricing for Durables with Network Externalities" (Co-authored with Yusuke Zennyo) was published online as a working paper (MPRA). [LINK PDF] (The former title of this paper is "Pricing and Diffusion of Durables with Network Externalities")

Research Areas

• Public Economics: Provision of Public Goods, Advertising Regulations.

• Industrial Organization: Mergers, Advertising, Competition Policy.

• Environmental Economics: Trade and Environment, Political Economy on Environmental Policymaking.

• Organizational Economics: Leadership, Team Production.

Published Papers (Refereed)

• "Effective Leadership Selection in Complementary Teams", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 176(4), 620-639, 2020. (Co-authored with Mai Yamada.)

• "Skill Diversity and Leadership in Team Production", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 174(2), 351-374, 2018. (Co-authored with Mai Yamada.) 

• "Optimal Combination of Innovation and Environmental Policies under Technology Licensing", Economic Modelling, 64, 601-609, 2017.

• "Free Entry and Social Inefficiency under Co-opetition", Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie), 118(2), 97-119, 2016. (Co-authored with Takeshi Yoshikawa.)

• "Who Benefits from Misleading Advertising?", Economica, 82(328), 613-643, 2015. (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.)

• "Within-group Cooperation and Between-group Externalities in the Provision of Public Goods", International Tax and Public Finance, 22(2), 252-273, 2015. 

• "Trade Liberalization and Environmental Regulation on International Transportation", Japanese Economic Review, 65(4), 468-482. 2014. (Co-authored with Kenzo Abe and Yoshitaka Kawagoshi.)

• "Misleading Advertising and Minimum Quality Standards", Information Economics and Policy, 28, 1-14, 2014. (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.)

• "Complementary Alliance in Composite Good Markets with Network Structure", Manchester School, 82(1), 33-51, 2014 (Co-authored with Ming-Hsin Lin.)

• "Endogenous Timing in Strategic Environmental Policymaking", Environmental and Resource Economics, 55(2), 199-215, 2013. (Co-authored with Takahiro Kitamura.)

• "Environmental Innovation and Policy Harmonization in International Oligopoly", Environment and Development Economics, 18, 162-183, 2013. [Online Appendix]

• "Misleading Advertising in Duopoly", Canadian Journal of Economics, 45, 1154-1187, 2012. (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.)

• "Alliance Partner Choice in Markets with Vertical and Horizontal Externalities", B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 11, Issue 1 (Topics), Article 13, 2011. (Co-authored with Ming-Hsin Lin.)

• "Strategic Voting for Noncooperative Environmental Policies in Open Economies", Environmental and Resource Economics, 46, 459-474, 2010.

• "Is Technological Progress Pareto-Improving for a World with Global Public Goods?", Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie), 84, 135-156, 2005.

  • Essays on the Private Provision of Public Goods, Ph.D. Thesis, Osaka University, 2005.

• "Reconsideration of the Crowding-out Effect with Non-linear Contribution Technology", Economics Bulletin, 8-7, 1-10, 2003.

Published Papers (Others)

• Comment on "Budgets under Delegation" by Terai, K. and Glazer, A. In Ihori, T. and Terai, K. Eds, The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation in Japan, forthcoming, Springer. 

• "Political Economy Model of Strategic Environmental Policies: A Survey of Some Recent Work" (in Japanese), Osaka Keidai Ronshu, 60, 225-239, 2010.

• "Effects of Changes in Contribution Skills on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods", Osaka Keidai Ronshu, 57, 119-126, 2006.

• "The Theory on the Private Provision of Public Goods: A Survey" (in Japanese), Osaka Economic Papers, 52-2, 137-153, 2002.

Working Papers

• "Welfare Implications of Sequential Entry with Heterogeneous Firms", MPRA Paper No. 103422, posted 15 Oct 2020. (Co-authored with Mai Yamada).

• "Heterogeneous Consumer Expectations and Monopoly Pricing for Durables with Network Externalities", MPRA Paper No.89893. November 2019. (Co-authored with Yusuke Zennyo).

• "Profit-maximizing Wages under Duopoly", MPRA Paper No.70288, posted 26. March 2016.

• "Should non-genuine products be expelled from markets?", Kwansei Gakuin University Discussion Paper Series, No. 126, March 2015. (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.)

• "How to Commit to a Future Price", Working Papers 131402, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics. (Co-authored with Amihai Glazer.)

• "When Government Misleads US: Sending Misinformation as Protectionist Devices", Kwansei Gakuin University Discussion Paper Series, No. 75, August 2011. [Link PDF] (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.)

• "Policy and Product Differentiations Encourage International Transfer of Environmental Technologies", MPRA Paper No. 4777, posted 08. September 2007. R&R

• "Strategic Delegation of Environmental Policy Making: Corrections and Comments", August 24, 2007. Available at SSRN: http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=1009425

Academic Positions

• 2020 Apr. - present: Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, JAPAN.

• 2014 Jul. - 2020 Mar: Professor, Osaka University of Economics, JAPAN.

• 2008 Feb. - 2014 Jul.: Associate Professor, Osaka University of Economics, JAPAN.

• 2012 Aug. - 2013 Aug.: Visiting Researcher, University of California, Irvine, USA.

• 2005 Apr. - 2008 Feb.: Lecturer, Osaka University of Economics, JAPAN.

Education

• Ph.D. Osaka University (2005), Economics

• M.A. Osaka University (2002), Economics

• B.A. Kwansei Gakuin University (2000), Economics 

Updated 2020/08/12