Work in Progress

• “Assessing the Impact of 2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China: A Synthetic Control Approach,” (with Yang Yueqi) 2021. under submission

Published Articles (in English)

• “Fiscal Decentralization and Preference Heterogeneity: Revisiting the Decentralization Theorem,” Economics of Governance, forthcoming, 2023. (SSRN)

• “Mortality Impacts of Socioeconomic Status and Demographic Composition: Community-Level Analysis for the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami,” International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 13, 913–924, 2022.

• “Strategic Interaction among Japanese Municipalities Regarding Public Servant Salary Levels,” (with Tuan Dzung Nguyen) Annals of Regional Science, forthcoming, 2022.

• “The Roles of Governors, Local Legislatures, and National Politics in Allocating Disaster Recovery Payments: Evidence from Japan,” (with Haruo Kondoh) International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 71, 102758, 2022.

• “Estimating the Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Japanese Top Taxpayers,” (with Ryo Ishida) Japan and the World Economy, 61, 101116, 2022. 

• “Does Ethnic Diversity Affect Public Goods Provision? Evidence from Boundary Reform of Local Governments,” Applied Economics, 54:34, 3903–3923, 2022.

• “Ethnic Diversity and Natural Disaster Mortality: Evidence from the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami,” Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming, 2021. (SSRN)

• “Economies of Scope and Local Government Expenditure: Evidence from Creation of Specially Authorized Cities in Japan,” Sustainability, 13(5), 2684, 2021.

• “Estimation of the Fiscal Impact on Japanese Governments of the Anticipated Nankai Trough Megathrust Earthquake,” (with Shingo Nagamatsu) Journal of Disaster Research, 15(5), 633–644, 2020.

• “Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Tax Efforts: Regression-Discontinuity Analysis for Japanese Local Governments,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 84, 103554, 2020.

• “Estimating the Mitigation Effect of Tokai Earthquake Measures on Housing Damage: A Counterfactual Approach,” (with Ryo Ohtani, Taichi Ohno, Tsuyoshi Takasugi and Toshihiro Yamada) Disaster, 43(1), 181–205, 2019. 

• “Income Tax Reforms and Redistribution by Age Group: Evidence from Japan,” Japanese Economic Review, (with Yukinobu Kitamura and Taro Ohno) 70(1), 105–122, 2019. (SSRN)

• “Regional Inequality in Fiscal Capacity and Allocation of Tax Sources: Do Local Allocation Taxes Correct the Inequality?” Public Policy Review, 14(2), 347—367, 2018. 

• “Internalization of Externalities and Local Government Consolidation: Empirical Evidence from Japan,” Empirical Economics, 54(3), 1061–1086, 2018. 

• “Examining the Relationship between Municipal Consolidation and Cost Reduction: An Instrumental Variable Approach,” Applied Economics, 50(10) 1108-1121, 2018.

• “Empirical Studies on Strategic Interaction among Municipality Governments over Disaster Waste after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake,” (with Motohiro Sato) Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 44, 26–38, 2017.

• “Decomposition of Redistributive Effects of Japanese Personal Income Tax, 1984–2009,” (with Yukinobu Kitamura) FinanzArchiv, 73(3), 334–368, 2016. (SSRN)

• “Measurement of Redistributive Effect of Tax Rates from a Longitudinal Perspective: An Application of the Fixed Taxable Income Approach,” Applied Economics Letters, 23(8), 588–591, 2016. 

• “Municipal Consolidation and Local Government Behavior: Evidence from Japanese Voting Data on Merger Referenda,” Economics of Governance, 15, 387–410, 2014.

• “Incentives in Public and Privatized Firms under Incomplete Contracting Situations,” Theoretical Economics Letters, 2, 323–329, 2012.

• “Marriage Promotion Policies and Regional Differences in Marriage,” (with Yukinobu Kitamura) The Japanese Economy, vol.38, no.1, 3–39, Spring 2011. 

Published Articles (in Japanese)

• “Regional Inequality in Fiscal Cpability Capacity and Allocation of Tax Sources: Do Intergovermnental Fiscal Transfers (Local Allocation Tax) Correct the Inequality?,” Financial Review, 127, 166–182, 2016.

• “Relationship between Death Tolls of the Great East Japan Earthquake across Ages and the Size of the Tsunami: A Basic Analysis Using City Block Data,” Journal of Political Economy (Keizaigaku Kenkyu), 81(4), 135–149, 2014.

• “Income Tax Reforms and Income Redistribution,” Sozei Kenkyu, 780, 119–131, 2014.

• “The Way of Supporting Lives of Disaster Victims in Case of Earthquake,” (with Eiji Tajika) Urban Housing Science, 86, 53–57, 2014.

• “The Role of the Government in Supporting Disaster Victims: A Review of the Policies to Foster Recovery of Livelihood in Japan,” (with Eiji Tajika) Quarterly of Social Security Research (Kikan Shakai Hosho Kenkyu), 49(3), 270–282, 2013.

• “Effect on the Finances of Local Governments in the Case of an Earthquake Occurring Directly Beneath the Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Projections by Year and Prefecture,” Economic Analysis (Keizai Bunseki), 186,50–68, 2013.

• “Position of Future Generation in Terms of Preference for Prevention and Mitigation Policies: Toward Construction of Sustainable Prevention and Mitigation Policies,” (with Shingo Nagamatsu and Motohiro Sato) Journal of Social Safety Science, 17, 153–160, 2012.

• “Intergovernmental Risk Allocations and the Budget for the Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster,” (with Motohiro Sato) Financial Review, 108, 30–53, 2012.

• “Income Inequality and Evaluation of Tax Effect on Redistribution of Income in Japan 1984–2004,” (with Yukinobu Kitamura) The Economic Review, 63(1), 56–69, 2012.

• “Tax Transfer to Local Government: Along with Revision of Tax Source and Intergovernmental Transfer,” (with Eiji Tajika) Zeikei Tsushin, 11.12, 1–14, 2011.

• “Earthquake Damages and Local Public Finance: The Case of Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake,” Meikai Economic Review, 24(1), 15–32, 2011.

• “Dependence on Local Allocation Tax and the Efficiency of Fiscal Management in Municipalities: The Analysis from Municipal-Level Cross-Section Data in Japan,” Meikai Economic Review, 23(1), 1–13, 2010.

• “The Effects of the Reform of Local Allocation Tax on Municipal Annexations,” JCER Economic Journal, 63, 79–99, 2010.

• “Analysis of the Soft Budget Constraint Problem in the Local Allocation Tax: Determinants of Modification Coefficients,” Economic Analysis (Keizai Bunseki), 183, 77–101, 2010.

• “The Effects of Municipal Mergers on Local Government Expenditure and the Public Service,” Meikai Economic Review, 22(1), 1–15, 2009.

• “Regional Differences in Marriage Rates and Marriage Promotion Policies,” JCER Economic Journal, 60, 79–102, 2009.

• “Disaster Relief and the Role of Fiscal Assistance,” (with Eiji Tajika) The Financial Review, 91, 6–24, 2008.

• “Incentives for Merger of Municipalities: Structural Estimation on Decision of Integration,” Meikai Economic Review, 20(2), 1–21, 2008.

• “Local Allocation Tax and the Fiscal Efforts of Local Governments: Analysis using Municipal Data,” (with Eiji Tajika) Government Auditing Review, 38, 25–37, 2008.

• “Cost-Reduction Effect of Municipal Consolidation: A Test Using a Consolidation Trend,” Public Finance Studies, 2, 145–160, 2006.

• “Creation of Merger Conferences by Cost-Efficient Municipalities: The Effect of Special Mergers Law in 1999,” JCER Economic Journal, 54, 20–38, 2006.

• “The Effectiveness of Project Evaluation on Park Maintenance Projects: Analysis of Panel Data on Japanese Cities and Words,” JCER Economic Journal, 50, 64–87, 2004. 

Books and Chapters

• Economic Evaluation of Municipal Mergers in the Heisei era, Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute: Tokyo, 2019. (in Japanese)

• “Evaluation on Horizontal Aids in Disasters,” (with Masayuki Nakagawa, Motohiro Sato, and Makoto Saito) in Saito, Makoto and Hiroshi Noda (eds.): Social Science of Emergency Response: Joint Study in Jurisprudence and Economics, Yuhikaku Inc.101–121, 2017. (in Japanese)

• “Cooperative Relationship between Disaster and Local Governments,” (with Motohiro Sato) in Saito, Makoto (eds.): Disasters and Economics, Toyo Keizai Inc.217–246, 2015. (in Japanese)

• A Micro-data Empirical Study on Tax System Reforms, (with Yukinobu Kitamura) Iwanami: Tokyo, 2013. (in Japanese)

• “Policy System of Disasters and Role of Local Governments,” in Takahashi, S. and T. Watanabe (eds.): Risk Management in Public Policy, Dai-ichi Hoki, 99–117,2011. (in Japanese)

• “Policy Evaluation of Increasing Municipal Public Finance: Empirical Analysis Using Municipal Data,” Doctor's degree dissertation, Hitotsubashi University, 2007. (in Japanese)

Reports

• “Comment Paper to Chapter 4 (Fiscal Consolidation and Local Public Finances in Japan: Incentive Problems Associated with Intergovernmental Transfers and Their Political Roles, by Nobuo Akai),” The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation in Japan, Toshihiro Ihori and Kimiko Terai (eds), Springer: Japan, 2015.

• “Policy Evaluation of Regional Vitalization,” Report on Regional Vitalization Systems Theory Curriculums Seminar, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, 2012. (in Japanese)

• “Transfer of Tax Revenues to Local Governments along with Tax Distributions between Local Governments,” (with Eiji Tajika) Report on “Japanese Problems from the Viewpoint of Local Taxes and Public Finance”, The 21st Century Public Policy Institute, 11, 2011. (in Japanese)

• “Hard blow to Japan economy,” China Daily, Op-Ed Contributors, 25/03/2011.

• “Municipality’s Burden of 24 Billion Yen in 5 Years: Cabinet Office Estimate,” A Daily Paper of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2010.8.4, 14 Edition, 5 Page. (in Japanese)

• “Financial Resources Measures and the Role of Local Governments in Disasters Related Policy,” Report on “Research on the Status of Disasters Policy Systems from the Economics Perspective, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, 2009. (in Japanese)

• “Explanation of Statistical Terminology,” Report on Preliminary Research of the Effects of the Trinity Reforms on Local Government Finance and its Adjustments, The House of Representatives Bureau, 2006. (in Japanese)