Research

"Luck is the planning you don't see. " -- Patrick Jane

Works in Progress

  • "Exploring the real cost of collecting plastic packaging waste: Evidence from Tokyo metropolitan area," with Kai Nomura and Eiji Hosoda.
  • "Russian IUU Regulation and Snow Crab Fisheries in the Northwestern Pacific: Hidden Effects of Relative Cost Change," with K. Tokunaga and B. Kaiser
  • "Is Good news really good news? The evidence from Japan's Fish Market ," with Brooks Kaiser and Kanae Tokunaga.
  • "Is there a Hidden Cost on Disaster-prone Land Asset? : Evidence from floodwater accidents in Japan," with Daisuke Ichinose

Research Papers

  • "Plastic reduction and firm characteristics: Evidence from (non-) financial information in Japan" with Kai Nomura.
  • "The Welfare Implication of Circular Economy with Trade," with Kefu Lin (under review).
  • "Identifying loopholes of incomplete environmental regulation: Evidence from Japanese plastic bag fee," with Kai Nomura, Daisuke Ichinose, Kenji Takeuchi and Jun Nakatani
  • "Revealing the burden of mitigating plastic pollution: focusing on collection and transportation costs," with Daisuke Ichinose.
  • "Estimating the impact of policy reform in long-term care insurance: The case of the 2007 revision in Japan," with Makiko Takao.
  • "The Impacts of COVID-19 on Fish Market Auction in Tokyo".
  • "Who provides the most cost effective waste management? : Evidence from Japan" with Andrew Abbott, Eiji Hosoda, Shasikanta Nandeibam, Lucy O'Shea
  • "Does Unit-based Pricing Really Reduce Waste? A Causal Inference Approach with Panel Data", with Daisuke Ichinose.

Articles (peer-reviewed)

  1. "Has Incineration Replaced Recycling? Evidence from OECD Countries," with Tom Kinnaman, Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15, no. 4, 3234, 2023 (DOI).
  2. "Environmental Policy and Leakage: The case of plastic bags", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (『 環境経済・政策研究』), vol. 15, no. 2, pp.24-33, 2022 (in JAPANESE).
  3. "What activities reduce plastic waste the most? - The path to a circular economy for Japan’s manufacturing industry," with Saifun Nahaer Eva, Waste Management, Elsevier, vol. 151, pp.205-213, 2022 (DOI).
  4. "Is Incineration Repressing Recycling?" with Tom Kinnaman, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, January 2022, 102593 (DOI).
  5. "Global Ecological and Economic Connections in Arctic and Sub-Arctic Crab Markets," with B. Kaiser, M. Kourantidou, D. Ahsan, S. Bakanev, A. Burmeister, G. Eckert, L. Fernandez, H. P. Hong, A. Monsalve, D. Mullowney, B. Nøstvold, H. Park, E. Poulsen, L. Jonsen, C. Siddon, J. H. Sundet, K. Tokunaga, Marine Policy, Elsevier, 2021 (DOI).
  6. "Don't Rely Too Much on Trees: Evidence from Flood Mitigation in China," with K. Tembata, Y. Yamamoto and K. Matsumoto, Science of the Total Environment , Elsevier, 2020, vol. 732, 138410. (DOI)
  7. "Transportation Costs of Vehicle Recycling under Hotelling's Duopoly Competition," with E. Hosoda, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer/Nature, 2020, vol. 48, pp. 77-91. (DOI)
  8. "Political Economy of Voluntary Approaches: A Lesson from Environmental Policies in Japan" with T. Arimura, S. Kaneko, S. Managi, T. Shinkuma and Y. Yoshida, Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, 2019, vol. 64, pp.41-53. (DOI)
  9. "Spatial Econometric Analysis of Automobile and Motorcycle Traffic on Indonesian National Roads: Is It Local or Beyond City Boundaries?," with Wandani, F.P, Siti, M., and Y. Yoshida, IATSS Research, Elsevier, vol. 42, pp. 76-85, 2018. (DOI)
  10. "Construction of a Sound Material-cycle Society: Challenges and Outlook," with Eiji Hosoda, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (『環境経済・政策研究』), vol. 10 (1), pp. 1-12, 2017 (in Japanese). (DOI)
  11. "A simple indicator of local government's economic policy : Example from Japan's new local revitalization policy," with Kazuyuki Nakamura, Asia Pacific Journal of Business, vol. 7 (2), pp.39-48, 2017.
  12. "On the Discrepancy in the Social Efficiency Measures between Parametric and Non-Parametric Production Technology Identification," with Hun Koo Ha, Shinji Kaneko, Yuichiro Yoshida and Anming Zhang, Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 58, pp.9-14, 2017 (DOI)
  13. "How Do Agricultural Markets Respond to the Radiation Risk?: Evidence from the 2011 Disaster in Japan," with Kayo Tajima and Daisuke Ichinose, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60, pp. 20-30, 2016 (DOI)
  14. "The Decoupling of Affluence and Waste Discharge under Spatial Correlation: Do Richer Communities Discharge More Waste?," with Daisuke Ichinose and Yuichiro Yoshida, Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol 20, pp. 161-184, 2015. (DOI)
  15. "The Socially Optimal Recycling Rate: evidence from Japan," with Thomas Kinnaman and Takayoshi Shinkuma, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 68 (1), pp. 54-70, 2014. (DOI)
  16. "Productive Efficiency of Solid-Waste Logistics and its Implication on Waste Management Policy," with Daisuke Ichinose and Yuichiro Yoshida, IATSS Research, Elsevier, vol. 36, pp.98-105, 2013. (DOI)
  17. "On the Consumption Expenditure Distortion among Different Income Classes: Evidence from South Korea and Japan," with Jum Soon LEE, Asia Pacific Journal of Business, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 34-41, 2012.
  18. "On the Cost Structures of the End-of-life Product Logistics," Journal of International Logistics and Trade, vol. 9(2), pp. 57 -76, 2011. (DOI)
  19. "On the Relationship Between Provision of Waste Management Service and Illegal Dumping", with Daisuke Ichinose, Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 33(1), pp. 79-93, 2011. (DOI)
  20. "Dynamic and Static Productivity Measurements: Methodology and its Application to Japanese Airline," with Yuichiro Yoshida and Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Far Eastern Studies, vol. 9, pp. 31-63, 2010.
  21. "An Economic Analysis of Collection and Transport of Municipal Wastes in Japan", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (『環境経済・政策研究』), vol. 2, no. 1,January, 2009 (in JAPANESE).
  22. "A Premier Carbon Credit: WWF's Gold Standard and the Carbon Market", with Ayumi Onuma, Journal of Environmental Information Science (『環境情報科学』), Vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 55-60, 2007 (in JAPANESE).

Edited Books

  1. Ma, J. and M. Yamamoto eds. (2021) Growth Mechanism and Sustainability - Economic Analysis of the Steel Industry in East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 978-981-16-2486-5. (Book review in Japanese)
  2. Yamamoto, M. and E. Hosoda eds. (2016) Economics of Waste Management in East Asia, Routledge (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy), ISBN: 978-113-83-1793-2.

Chapters in Books

  1. "Closing Remarks: Toward Sustainable Growth of the Steel Industry in East Asia," in Ma and Yamamoto (2021) Growth Mechanisms and Sustainability, Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. "Chapter 7: Decomposing the Energy Impact of the Steel Industry in the Manufacturing Sector: Evidence from Japan and China," with Saifun Nahaer Eva and Takashi Sekiyama, in Ma and Yamamoto (2021) Growth Mechanisms and Sustainability, pp. 147-174, Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. "Chapter 7: Economics of International Resource Circulation," in Onuma and Hosoda (2019) Environmental Economics and Policy Design (『環境経済学の政策デザイン』), Keio University Press, pp.183-202 (in Japanese).
  4. "Chapter 5: Consumers' concern about radioactive contamination" in Matsumoto and Otsuki eds. (2018) Food credence attributes: How can we design policies to meet consumer demand?, CRC Press, pp. 62-78, with Shigeru Matsumoto.
  5. "Chapter 9: The Long Run Forest Conservation and the Paper Recycling: Evidence from East Asian Countries" in Ma and Tachibana eds. (2018) Sustainable Use of Forest and Timber in East Asia (『東アジアの 森林・木材の持続可能な利用』), AAFS Publishing, forthcoming (in Japanese).
  6. "Chapter 10: Remote Sensing and Economic Analysis: An example in forest management" in Ma and Tachibana eds. (2018) Sustainable Use of Forest and Timber in East Asia (『東アジアの 森林・木材の持続可能な利用』), with K. Sugiura, AAFS Publishing, forthcoming (in Japanese).
  7. "Chapter 5: Recent Trend in Empirical Research on Waste and Recycling," in Arimura, Kayayama and Matsumoto eds. (2017) Frontiers in Environmental Economics (『環境経済学のフロンティア』), Nihon Hyoron sha (in Japanese).
  8. "Recycling Policy in Japan," in Miyairi et al eds. (2017) New Technology in Recycling, In-Tech Information Co. ltd, pp37-45.
  9. "Chapter 11: The effect of cost fluctuation on waste trade and recycling in East Asia," in Yamamoto and Hosoda eds. (2016) Economics of Waste Management in East Asia, Routledge, pp.191-208.
  10. "Does the NIMBY strategy really promote a self-interest?: Evidence from England's waste management policy," in Kinnaman and Takeuchi eds. (2014) Handbook of Waste Management, Edward Elgar, with Yuichiro Yoshida.
  11. "Chapter 5: Overview of Waste Trade in East Asia," in Creation of East Asian KYOSEI Studies (CEAKS研究叢書『交響するアジア第１巻：環境の視点から見た共生』), edited by N. Kakita, K. Nakamura, and F. Yasumoto, March 2013 (in JAPANESE).
  12. "Chapter 6: Environmental Tax," in Environmental Economics (『環境経済学』), edited by Eiji Hosoda, Minerva Shobo Publishing, April, 2012 (in JAPANESE).
  13. "Municipal Solid Waste Management by companies,", in Dictionary of Recycling and Waste Management (『リサイクル・廃棄物辞典』), eds by Takashi Nakamura et al., Industrial Research Center of Japan Publishing, 2012 (in JAPANESE).
  14. "Standardization in the Certification Process of Carbon Credit", with Ayumi Onuma, in Strategic Use of Consensus-based Standard (『コンセンサス標準戦略』), edited by Junjiro Shintaku and Manabu Eto, Nikkei Publishing, 2008 (in JAPANESE).

Other Publications

  1. "Economics of Sustainable Consumption, " Mita Hyoron (『三田評論』), August, 2019, no. 1236 (in Japanese).
  2. "Industries in Toyama Prefecture: A quick look from inter-regional input-output table of Toyama", Toyama Economic Statistics Monthly, 『とやま経済月報』, May, 2017 (in Japanese).
  3. "A Japanese Commentary on `How Do Agricultural Markets Respond to the Radiation Risk?: Evidence from the 2o11 Disaster in Japan," with Kayo Tajima and Daisuke Ichinose, Rikkyo Economic Review, vol. 70, no.2, 2016 (in Japanese).
  4. "Economics of Team Sports: Is it always good to add a better player?," Toyama Economic Statistics Monthly, 『とやま経済月報』, no. 236, October, 2015 (in Japanese).
  5. "Redesigning the recycling policy: importance of the end-of-life product's logistics," in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (『環境経済・政策研究』), vol. 8 (1), pp.81-84, 2015 (in JAPANESE).
  6. "What is wrong with the export of end-of-life-products? " (静脈資源の流出について), mimeo, with Eiji Hosoda, 2015 (in Japanese).
  7. "Understanding the Role of the end-of-life Product Logistics for Further Sustainable Resource Use," KAGAKU(『科学』) (Science Journal), Iwanami Shoten Publishing, vol. 82, no.4, April, 2012. (in JAPANESE).
  8. "Economic analysis of returning the white storks to the wild in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture: economic rationale for adopting white stork friendly farming method and the effect of returning the white storks to the wild on the local economy," with Ayumi Onuma, Mita Journal of Economics (『三田学会雑誌』), Vol. 102, no.2 , pp. 191 -211, 2009 (in JAPANESE).
  9. "Book Review of `Waste and Environmental Policy'" (edited by Mazzanti, Massimiliano and Anna Montini, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, 2009, xxi+215, ISBN978-415-45936-5), in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (『環境経済・政策研究』), Vol. 4, no. 1, January, 2011 (in JAPANESE).
  10. "A Basic Analysis of the End-of-Life Product Logistics in Japan," with Eiji Hosoda and Tamaki Miyauchi, Mita Journal of Economics (『三田学会雑誌』), Vol. 99, no.2 , pp. 47 -65, 2006 (in JAPANESE).
  11. "Environmental Standard and its Economic Analysis," with Ayumi Onuma, Mita Journal of Economics (『三田学会雑誌』), Vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 157-188, 2005. (in JAPANESE)

Grants and Awards

  1. April, 2024- March, 2029: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Research Project:, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  2. August, 2021 - March, 2024: Research on economic incentives to promote circular economy, KEIDANREN (一般財団法人環境対策推進財団).
  3. April, 2021 - March, 2026: S-19 Comprehensive Study on the System Development of Plastics for Sustainable Resource Circulation and Control of Leakage into the Ocean (sub-theme 2-3), Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA).
  4. September, 2019: Bilateral Joint Research Seminars (South Korea), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  5. April, 2019 - March, 2022: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Research Project: #19K01623, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  6. April, 2018 - March, 2020: The 4th Research on Environmental Economics and Policy (環境経済の政策研究), Japanese Ministry of Environment.
  7. April, 2018 - March, 2020: Environment Research and Technology Development Fund, #3-1801, co-researcher, Japanese Ministry of Environment.
  8. March, 2018 - January 2020: Used lead-acid battery recycling case studies in Japan, Basel and Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for the Asia and Pacific Region in China (BCRC-SCRC China).
  9. July 2017 - June 2019: UArctic project grant, Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, co-researcher.
  10. January 2017 - December 2017: International Network Programme, Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Denmark, co-researcher.
  11. April, 2016 - March, 2019: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Research Project: #16K03617, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  12. November 2015- October, 2016: Grant for Environmental Research Project, the Sumitomo Foundation, co-researcher.
  13. October 5 -26, 2015: Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  14. March, 2015 - March, 2017: Daiwa Foundation Award, Grant Number # 8554/11161, Daiwa Foudation (UK), co-researcher.
  15. April, 2013 - March, 2016: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Research Project: #25380289, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  16. April, 2012 - March, 2015: Research Fund for Environmental Economics and Policies, co-researcher, Japanese Ministry of Environment.
  17. April, 2012 - March, 2015: Environment Research and Technology Development Fund, co-researcher, Japanese Ministry of Environment.
  18. September, 2011 - November, 2011:Grant for Overseas Research, MURATA Science Foundation
  19. May, 2011 - March, 2013: Research Project by National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), co-researcher.
  20. April 2011 - March, 2013: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Research Project: #23730273, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  21. April, 2011 - March, 2012: HOKUGIN Research Grants for young scholars.
  22. April, 2010 - March, 2013: University of Toyama Creation of East Asian 'Kyousei' Studies (CEAKS) project (co-researcher), The Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports,Science and Technology (MEXT).
  23. April, 2009 - to March 2010: Toyama Daiichi-Bank Research Grant.

Conference and Seminar Presentation (2015-)

  1. The 12th Congress of Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, Waseda University, August 29,30, 2023.
  2. The 5th ISETS Energy Transition Forum, Tokai University, October 14, 2022.
  3. Applied Economics Workshop, Institute for Economic Studies, Keio University, October 15, 2021.
  4. Research Seminar for Transdisciplinary Perspectives Toward Environmental Sustainability, organized by Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), Waseda University, February 9, 2021.
  5. The 25th SEEPS Conference, Online only, September 26-27, 2020.
  6. The 24th SEEPS Conference, Fukushima University, September 28-29, 2019.
  7. The 8th World Forum on China Studies, hosted by Shanghai Academy of Social Science, Shanghai, China, September 10-11, 2019.
  8. The 24th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE2019), Manchester, UK, June, 2019.
  9. The 88th Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, November 18-20, 2018.
  10. The 23rd SEEPS Conference, Sophia Unviersity, September 8-9, 2018.
  11. The 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE), Gothenburg, Sweden, June 25-29, 2018.
  12. Economics Seminar, Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, June 1, 2018.
  13. Department Seminar, Department of Applied Economics, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 30, 2018.
  14. The 116th Rokko Environmental Economic and Policy Seminar, Kobe University, Japan, April 13, 2018.
  15. Workshop on Environmental Economics and Policy Making, hosted by National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tokyo, February, 9, 2018.
  16. Workshop on global ecological and economic connections in Arctic and sub-Arctic crab fisheries (WKCRABCON), International Councils on the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, December 11-13, 2017.
  17. Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Asian Studies (JAAS), University of Toyama, Japan, October 22, 2017.
  18. The 22nd SEEPS Conference, Kochi Institute of Technology, September 8-10, 2017.
  19. International Symposium on Food Credence Attributes: How can we design policies to meet consumer demand? (Sponsored by OECD), Aoyama Gakuin Unviersity, Japan, May 18-20, 2017.
  20. The 21st SEEPS Conference, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, September 10-11, 2016.
  21. The 14th Northeast Asian Academic Network, Kangwon National University, August 23-25, South Korea, 2016.
  22. The 6th EAAERE conference, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, August 7-10, 2016.
  23. National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU), "Rediscovery of Northeast Asia: Kick-off Symposium of Program for Northeast Asian Area Studies", National Museum of Ethnology (MINPAKU), Osaka, Japan, January 23-24, 2016.
  24. ADBI seminar "Transportation and Logistics for the Sustainable Development in Asia," Asian Development Bank Institute and Jungseok Research Institute of Logistics and Trade, December 14-15, 2015, Incheon, Korea, 2015.
  25. The 62th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, November 11-14, Portland, USA, 2015
  26. The 5th EAAERE conference, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, August 5-7, 2015.

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