Profile [CV]

Name: Hirota Haruaki

Position: Professor, Musashi University

Birth: 2 February 1982

Nationaliry: Japan

Research fields: Public Economics, Public Finance, Local Public Finance

Degree: Ph.D in Eonomics, Osaka University,2010

Academic Associations:International Institute of Public Finance, Japanese Economic Association, Japan Public Choice Society,Japan Institute of Public Finance, Japan Association of Local Public Finance

Address：1-26-1, Toyotamakami, Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan,176-0011

Office：Builging7, Room No.510

E-mail: hirota[at]cc.musashi.ac.jp

Education

2010 Ph. D in Economics, Osaka University

2009 Coursework Completed without Degree, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University

2006 M.A. in Economics, Osaka University

2004 B.A. in Economics, Wakayama University

Academic Positions

2017- present Professor, Faculty of Economics, Musashi University

2016 - 2017 Visiting Fellow, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

2014 - 2017 Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Musashi University

2012-2014 Associate Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan

2009-2012 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan

[Part-Time]

2009 Lecture, "Public Finance," "Public Administration," "Introductory Economics," Osaka University of Commerce

2008 Lecture, "Introductory Macroecnomics" Konan University / Teaching Assistant, "Public Economics"(Prof. Masatoshi Yamada), Undergraduate and Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University

2007 Teaching Assistant, "Reform of Local Public Finance"(Prof. Shin Saito), Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University

Awards

2018 Japan Association of Local Public Finance Sato Prize

"Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data", Regional Science and Urban Economics , Volume 66, September 2017, pp. 132-149

Other Academic Positions

2013- Committee member, Institute of Statistical Research (Chair: Toshihiro Ihori)

2012- Committee member, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Chair: Isao Horiba)