Professor Emeritus, Osaka University
Adjunct Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University
public economics, law and economics, development economics, political and social thought
Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University
Associate Professor, Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Seikei University
Ph.D. in Economics, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia
B.E. in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo
1. On the neutrality of local public bonds in a spatial economy, Economic Studies Quarterly 36 (1985), 46-52.
2. On the choice of large projects: a generalization, Canadian Journal of Economics 18 (1985), 660-664.
3. The measurement of waste in public goods economy, Journal of Public Economics 33 (1987), 73-94.
4. The measurement of waste with increasing returns to scale, Economic Studies Quarterly 40 (1989), 276-288.
5. The measurement of benefits of public inputs in a tax-distorted economy, Canadian Journal of Economics 22 (1989), 885-891.
6. A general theorem on tariff harmonization, Economics Letters 40 (1992), 445-447.
7. Project evaluation rules for the provision of public goods reconsidered, Public Finance 48 (1993), 268-287.
8. The measurement of waste with nonconvex technology, Journal of Economics 61 (1995), 83-88.
9. Pareto-improving changes of tariffs and taxes, Public Finance 50 (1995), 440-447.
10. On the resolution of the boundary problem through the wealth maximization criterion; a critique of Posner, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 152(1996), 412-417.
11. Potential welfare criteria and the choice of large projects, Japanese Economic Review 51(2000), 605-609.
12. A partial rehabilitation of Hotelling's MC-pricing theorem, International Economic Review 42(2001), 237-244.
13. Shadow-pricing interpretation of the Pigovian rule for the optimal provision of public goods: a note, International Tax and Public Finance 9 (2002), 93-104.
14. Socially Optimal Liability Rules for Firms with Natural Monopoly in Contestable Markets, International Review of Law and Economics 31 (2011), 99-102.
15. Labor Relations and Labor Law in Japan, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 20 (2011), 529-561. (joint paper with Manabu Matsunaka)
16 Japanese Bureaucracy, The Japanese Economy 39, (2012), 49-68.
17. On the Complementarity between Law and Social Norms, Review of Law & Economics 11 (2015), pages 503-512. (joint paper with Yoshinobu Zasu)
Publications in Conference Volume
Arbeitsbeziehungen, Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitslosigkeit in Japan, pp.279-303 in K. Ott and H-B Sch fer eds. konomische Analyse des Arbeitsrechts J.C.B. Mohr(Paul Siebeck) (2001).