Professor
School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University
Research Interests
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Political Economics
Education
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2000
B.A. in Human Geography, Kyoto University, March 1998
B.A. in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 1994
Publicaitons
Published Articles
“Strategic Individual Behaviors and the Efficient Vaccination Subsidy,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 24 (2024), 905-927.
"Market Competition and Strategic Choices of Electric Power Sources under Fluctuating Demand," (with Hiroaki Ino and Toshihiro Matsumura) Resource and Energy Economics, 68 (2022), 101280.
"Collective vs. Individual Lobbying," European Journal of Political Economy, 63 (2020), 101859.
"Contracting-Out of Household Waste Collection Services in Japan," (with Jun'ichi Miki) The Singapore Economic Review, 65 (2020), 443-455.
"The Curse of Low-valued Recycling," (with Hiroaki Ino) Journal of Regulatory Economics, 55 (2019), 282-306.
"Optimal Term Length for an Overconfident Central Banker," (with Etienne Farvaque) The Singapore Economic Review, 62 (2017), 179-192.
"An Economic Analysis of the Packaging Waste Recovery Note System in the UK," (with Yoko Nagase) Resource and Energy Economics, 34 (2012), 669-679.
"Effects of Transboundary Stock Pollution on the Mode of International Competition," (with Kenji Fujiwara) Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, 17 (2010), 175-191.
"How Monetary Policy Committees Impact the Volatility of Policy Rates," (with Etienne Farvaque and Pierre-Guillaume Meon) Journal of Macroeconomics 31 (2009), 534-546.
"Effects of Transboundary Pollution on the Mode of International Trade of a Polluting Good," (with Kenji Fujiwara) Review of International Economics 17 (2009), 1009-1018.
"Monetary Unions and External Shocks," (with Etienne Farvaque) Economics Bulletin 29 (2009), 1-9.
"Dynamic Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Generalization," (with Kenji Fujiwara) Journal of Public Economic Theory 11 (2009), 27-36.
"Economic Instruments and Resource Use in a Recyclable Product Market," (with Yoko Nagase) Economics Bulletin, 17 (2008), 1-10.
"On a Nonlinear Feedback Strategy Equilibrium of a Dynamic Game," (with Kenji Fujiwara) Economics Bulletin 3 (2007), 1-10.
"Environmental Transfer against Global Warming: A Credit-based Program," (with Koichi Futagami and Akihisa Shibata) International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006), 46-72.
"Potential Failure of an International Environmental Agreement under Asymmetric Information," Economics Bulletin 17 (2004), 1-8.
"Asymmetrical Information and Delay of a Side Payment in Unidirectional Transboundary Pollution," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 5 (2003), 229-247.
Current Working Papers
"Hold-up Problems in Contracting Out Waste Collection Services," (with Hiroaki Ino and Jun'ichi Miki) Discussion Paper Series (Kwansei Gakuin University) No. 186.
"International Environmental Agreement and the Timing of Domestic Lobbying," (with Etienne Farvaque) Discussion Paper Series (Kwansei Gakuin University) No. 165.