CV

September, 2012

Curriculum Vitae

Tomoru Hiramatsu

Current Position

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Kumamoto Gakuen University.

Contact

Department of Economics

Kumamoto Gakuen University

2-5-1 Oe Kumamoto 862-8680 Japan

Email: hiramatsu<at>kumagaku.ac.jp

Web page: http://sites.google.com/site/tomoruh/

Economics Fields of Interest

Urban Economics, Transportation Economics, Computational Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics

Education

1996-­2000: Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan

1999­-2000: Satya Wacana Christian University, Central Java, Indonesia (Exchange Program)

2001­-2006: International Public Policy, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

2003­-2010: Ph.D. in Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA

Degrees

B.A. in Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2000

M.A. in International Public Policy, Osaka University, 2003

M.A. in Economics, SUNY at Buffalo, 2006

Ph.D. in Economics, SUNY at Buffalo, 2010

Research Employment

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Kumamoto Gakuen University, April 2012 - present.

Visiting Assistant Researcher, Edward J. Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development, University of California Riverside, July 2010 - August 2012.

Post-Doctoral fellow, Edward J. Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development, University of California Riverside, May 2010 - March 2012.

Research Associate, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo, January 2011 - March 2012.

Post-Doctoral fellow, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo, May 2010 - December 2010.

"A Long Term Integrated Framework Linking Urban Development, Demographic Trends and Technology Changes to Stationary and Mobile Source Emissions", Project Funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Research Assistant to Professor Alex Anas, Principal Investigator and Project Director, November 2007­ - April 2010.

Research Assistant to Professor Akira Kousaka, Osaka University, April 2003 - July 2003.

Refereed Papers

  1. "The Effect of the Price of Gasoline on the Urban Economy: From Route Choice to General Equilibrium", July 2012, Transportation Research Part A, Volume 46, Issue 6, Pages 855-873, with Alex Anas.

  2. "The Economics of Cordon Tolling: General Equilibrium and Welfare Analysis", Accepted, Economics of Transportation, with Alex Anas.

Non-Refereed Paper

  1. "RELU-TRAN: Applications and Challenges", September 2011, International Public Policy Studies, 16 (1), Pages 153-162, with Alex Anas.

Degree Papers

  1. M.A. thesis: "Growth in Cities in Japan", March 2003. Academic Supervisor: Akira Kohsaka. (in Japanese)

  2. Ph.D. dissertation: "The Impact of Anti-Congestion Policies on Fuel Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Urban Sprawl: Application of RELU-TRAN2, a CGE model.", Defended March 16, 2010. Academic Supervisor: Alex Anas .

Working Papers

  1. "Anti-Congestion Policies in Cities with Public Transportation", Submitted, with Akin C. Buyukeren.

  2. "Consumer Behavior of Foreign Visitors to Japan and Invitation Strategy", Submitted (in Japanese).

  3. "Expansive Urban Growth Boundary".

  4. "The Location Effects of Alternative Road Pricing Policies", with Alex Anas.

  5. "Spillover Effects of Police Service in Japan", with Akira Shimoyama (in Japanese).

Articles (in progress)

  1. "Effects of the Pigouvian Toll and Gasoline Tax", with Alex Anas.

  2. "Urbanization and Population Growth".

  3. "Brain Drain in the Core Periphery Model of Overlapping Generation".

  4. "Strategic Competition in the New Economic Geography’s Core Periphery Model", with Alex Anas.

Conference

  1. Japan Institute of Public Finance (in Tokyo, Japan), October 2007, "Spillover Effects of Police Service in Japan", with Akira Shimoyama.

  2. Kuhmo-Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics (in Valencia, Spain), July 2010, "The Effect of the Price of Gasoline on the Urban Economy: From Route Choice to General Equilibrium".

  3. Japanese Economics Association (in Hyogo, Japan), September 2010, "General Equilibrium Impacts of an Urban Boundary: Application of RELU-TRAN2 to the Chicago MSA".

  4. North America Regional Science (in Denver), November 2010, "The Impact of Congestion Pricing Policies on Fuel Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Urban Sprawl".

  5. Japanese Economics Association (in Kumamoto, Japan), May 2011, "The Impact of Congestion Pricing Policies on Fuel Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Urban Sprawl".

  6. North America Regional Science (in Miami), November 2011, "The Economics of Cordon Tolling: General Equilibrium and Welfare Analysis".

  7. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Conference [invited] (in Boston), June 2012, "Comparing Locational Effects between the Gas Tax and Pigouvian Tolling", with Alex Anas.

  8. Japan Association for Applied Economics (in Fukuoka, Japan), June 2012, "The Economics of Cordon Tolling: General Equilibrium and Welfare Analysis".

Award

Scholarship to promote overseas study exchange, 1999-2000. Association of International Education, Japan (AIEJ)

Computational Skills

Fortran, Matlab

References

Alex Anas

Professor

University at Buffalo

State University of New York

Department of Economics

405 Fronczak Hall,

Amherst, New York 14260

Tel : (716)-645-8663

Fax: (801)-749-7805

e-mail: alexanas<at>buffalo.edu

Web page: http://sites.google.com/site/alexanashomepage/

Richard James Arnott

Professor

University of California, Riverside

Department of Economics

4106 Sproul Hall, Riverside, CA

Tel: (951)-827-1581

Fax: (951)-682-7156

e-mail: richard.arnott<at>ucr.edu

Akira Kohsaka

Professor

Kwansei Gakuin University

Department of International Studies

1-1-155 Uegahara Nishinomiya, Hyogo 662-8501, Japan

Tel: +81-798-54-7138

e-mail: kohsaka<at>kwansei.ac.jp

Peter Morgan

Associate Professor

University at Buffalo

State University of New York

Department of Economics

449 Fronczak Hall, Amherst, New York 14260

Tel : (716)-645-2121, ext. 441

FAX: (716)-645-2127

e-mail: pbmorgan<at>buffalo.edu

Web page: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~pbmorgan/