Satoshi Honma is Professor (2014/4-) at the School of Political Science and Economics, Tokai University in Japan. Before joining Tokai University, he was taught full-time at Kyushu Sangyo University (2003/4-2014/3). Dr. Honma received a Ph.D degree in economics from Chuo University in Japan (2005/3).
His research interests include environmental economics, energy economics, and sustainable development. Particularly, he focuses on measurement of energy efficiency using data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. His publication shonws up in major journals such as Applied Energy, Asian Economic Policy Review, Economic Modelling, Energy, Energy Policy, and Journal of International Trade, Economic Development, etc.
Background and Academic positions:
1991 (B.A.) Department of Economics, Senshu University
1991 Yamatane Securities Co.,Ltd.( SMBC Friend Securities Co.,Ltd)
1995 (Master) Graduate School of Economics, Chuo University
2001 (unfinished Ph. D) Graduate School of Economics, Chuo University
2003 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyushu Sangyo University
2005 (Ph.D.) Graduate School of Economics, Chuo University
2006 Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyushu Sangyo University
2011 Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyushu Sangyo University
2014- Professor, Department of Economics, Tokai University
Published articles (Refereed Journals)
Total-Factor Energy and Emission Efficiencies of ASEAN and other Asian Economies," Asian Economic Policy Review. forthcoming (with Hu, Jin-Li and Yu-Kai Chen)
A Context-dependent Efficiency Evaluation of Japanese Securities Firms, Journal of Economics and Management. forthcoming (with Hu, Jin-Li and Yung-Han Lee)
An empirical investigation of the balance of embodied emission in trade: Industry structure and emission abatement, Economic Modelling, forthcoming (with Yushi Yoshida)
Optimal policies for international recycling between developed and developing countries.
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 12 143 – 153, 2019.
A Meta Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Industry-level Energy Efficiency in OECD Countries
Journal of Economics and Management 15(2) 171 - 220 2019. (with Jin-Li Hu).
Convergence in pollution terms of trade. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. 28 (5), 603-627. 2019 (with Yushi Yoshida)
A meta-stochastic frontier analysis for energy efficiency of regions in Japan. Journal of Economic Structures. 7:21, 1-16. 2018. (with Jin-Li Hu).
Input Efficiency of Japanese Securities Firms: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Journal of Management Research. 18. 71-89. 2018 (with Jin-Li Hu and Hsiao-Ping Hsieh).
Does international trade improve environmental efficiency? An application of a super slacks-based measurement of efficiency, Journal of Economic Structures, 4, pp.1-12, 2015.
A panel data parametric frontier technique for measuring total-factor energy efficiency: An application to Japanese regions, Energy, 78, pp.732-739, 2014 (with Jin-Li Hu).
A Comparative Study of Energy Efficiency of OECD Countries: An Application of the Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Energy Procedia, 61, pp. 2280-2283, 2014 (with Jin-Li Hu).
Environmental and Economic Efficiencies in the Asia-Pacific Region, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business,15(2), pp.122-135, 2014 (with Jin-Li Hu).
Industry-level Total-factor Energy Efficiency in Developed Countries, Applied Energy, 119, pp.67-78, 2014 (with Jin-Li Hu).
Total-factor Energy Efficiency for Sectors in Japan, Energy Sources, Part B, 8(2), pp.130–136、2013 (with Jin-Li Hu).
Analyzing Japanese Hotel Efficiency: A DEA Application, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 12（3）pp. 152 – 164, 2012 (with Jin-Li Hu).
Pollution Tax and Social Welfare in an Oligopoly: Asymmetric Taxation of Homogeneous Polluters, Agricultural and Resources Economics, 6(1), pp.47-68, 2009.
Total-factor Energy Productivity Growth of Regions in Japan, Energy Policy, 37(10), pp.3941-3950, 2009 (with Jin-Li Hu).
Efficient Waste and Pollution Abatements for Regions in Japan, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 16(4), pp. 270-285, 2009 (with Jin-Li Hu).
Total-factor Energy Efficiency for Regions in Japan, Energy Policy, 36(2), pp.821-833, 2008 (with Jin-Li Hu).