Research Papers

Working Papers

• Externality and Policy Intervention in Interregional Travel with Infectious Diseases (with Shingo Yamazaki)

  • Last Revised: July 2024

  • Revised and resubmitted to Health Economics

• Price and Quality Decision of a Monopoly Platform for Transaction with Shipping  (with Tetsuya Shinkai)

• Optimizing Multiple Airport Charges with Endogenous Airline Quality Considering the Marginal Cost of Public Funds (with Tatsuhito Kono and Izumo Suzaki)

  • [Presentation slide]

• Pass-through with Endogenous Quality (with Tetsuya Shinkai)

  • Last Revised: Mar 2023

Papers in Refereed Journals

• Choice of Policy Instruments with Endogenous Quality: Per-passenger and Per-flight Airport Charges in Japan

  • Journal of Industrial Economics, 2022, 70(1): 44-88.

  • [SSRN working paper ver.]

  • Previous title: "Pass-through with Endogenous Quality: An Empirical Study of Per-Passenger and Per-Flight Airport Charges"

• A Simple Method to Estimate Discrete-type Random Coefficients Logit Models

  • International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2022, 81: 102825.

  • [SSRN working paper ver.]   [MATLAB code]

  • Previous title: "Estimation of Discrete-type Random Coefficients Logit Models using Type-level Sales Data"

• Electronic Word-of-Mouth: A Survey from an Economics Perspective (with Hitoshi Hayakawa)

  • International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2020, 27(2): 303-320.

  • [SSRN working paper ver.]

• Market Structure and Product Quality: A Study of the 2002 Japanese Airline Merger (with Hiroshi Ohashi)

  • International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2019, 62: 158-193.

• Empirical Analysis of the National Treatment Obligation Under the WTO: The Case of Japanese Shochu (with Hiroshi Ohashi)

  • Journal of the Japanese and International Economies,  2017, 46: 43-52.

• Mutual influence across routes using a common airport: The case of the domestic market in Japan

  • Journal of Air Transport Management, 2014: 132-136.