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Full-time IDP Faculty

IDP has the strongest faculty in the field of international development in Japan. The IDP core faculty members teach required courses in the first-year IDP curriculum, and they serve as supervisors to help students in their studies and in conducting research for their Master's Theses.

Takahiro Akita
Makoto Kakinaka
Ryuta Kato
Koji Kotani
Ching-Yang Lin
Eiji Mangyo
Hiroaki Miyamoto
Jinhwan Oh
Yasuhide Okuyama
Hun Myoung Park
Zafrul Quadir Siddique  


Takahiro Akita 
Dean and Professor
M.S. in Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1974
Ph.D. in Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1981

Courses:
Development Planning (Multisector Models)
Quantitative Method for Decision Making
Inequality and Poverty: Measurement and Applications
Research Interests:
Regional economic development, income inequality and poverty, environmentally sustainable development, international inter-dependence and growth
Major Publications:
"Interregional Interdependence and Regional Economic Growth in Japan," in Macroeconometric Modeling of Japan, edited by Shinichi Ichimura and Lawrence R. Klein, World Scientific, 2010, forthcoming.
"Inter-sectoral Interdependence and Growth in Vietnam: A Comparative Analysis with Indonesia and Malaysia," Journal of Applied Input-Output Analysis, 13 & 14, 2008, pp.61-81, with Chu Thi Trung Hau.
"Urbanization, Educational Expansion, and Expenditure Inequality in Indonesia in 1996, 1999, and 2002," Journal of the Asia and Pacific Economy, 13(2), 2008, pp.146-165, with Sachiko Miyata.
"Decomposing Regional Income Inequality in China and Indonesia using Two-Stage Nested Theil Decomposition Method",Annals of Regional Science, 37(1), 2003, pp.55-77.
"Regional Income Inequality in Indonesia and the Initial Impact of the Economic Crisis," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 38(2), 2002, pp.201-222, with Armida Alisjahbana.
"Inequality in the Distribution of Household Expenditures in Indonesia: A Theil Decomposition Analysis," The Developing Economies, 37(2), 1999, pp.197-221, with Rizal Affandi Lukman and Yukino Yamada.

Makoto Kakinaka
Associate Professor
M.A. in Economics, Cornell University, 2004
Ph.D. in Economics, Cornell University, 2006

Courses:
Mathematics and Computing for Economics
International Finance
Japanese Banking and Financial System
Research Interests:
International economics and development economics
Major Publications:
"An Interplay between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good in a Large Economy," Public Choice, forthcoming, with Koji Kotani.
"International Transmission of Stock Returns: Mean and Volatility Spillover Effects in Indonesia and Malaysia," International Journal of Business and Finance Research, 4(1), 2010, pp.115-131, with Trang Nha Le.
"Dynamic Economic Analysis on Invasive Species Management: Some Policy Implications of Catchability," Mathematical Biosciences, 220(1), pp.1-14, 2009, with Koji Kotani and Hiroyuki Matsuda.
"Dynamic Incentive with Nonfinancing Threat and Social Sanction in Rural Credit Markets," Agricultural Finance Review, 68(2), 2008, pp.273-288, with Kien Tran Nguyen.
"Terrorism and Deterrence Policy with Transnational Support," Defence and Peace Economics, 19(2), 2008, pp.153-167, with Grace F. Sanico.
"Trade Structure and Trade Flows in Cambodia: A Gravity Model," ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 24(3), pp.305-319, 2007, with Norak Huot.

Ryuta Ray Kato
Professor and Program Director
M.A. in Economics, Yokohama National University, Japan, March 1990
M.A. in Economics, University of Essex, UK, March 1996
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Essex, UK, April 2000

Courses:
Public Finance
Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
Applied Econometrics
Public Sector Economics
Research Interests:
An aging population, health related issues, government deficits, issues in public pension scheme, information economics, applications of stochastic processes in economics
Major Publications:
gIntrinsic Motivation of Physicians,h GSIR Working Paper Series, EAP08-1, GSIR, International University of Japan, 2008, with Makoto Kakinaka.
gPublic Debt and Economic Growth in an Aging Japan," Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Aging, in Kaizuka and Krueger eds., Chapter 3, IMF, Palgrave, 2006, with Ihori, Kawade and Bessho.
gGovernment Deficits in an Aging Japan,h in Ihori and Sato eds.,Government Deficit and Fiscal Reform in Japan, Chapter 5, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
gGovernment Deficit, Public Investment, and Public Capital in the Transition to an Aging Japan,hJournal of the Japanese and International Economies, 16(4), 2002, pp.462-491.
gTransition to an Aging Japan: Public Pension, Savings, and Capital Taxation,h Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 12, 1998, pp.204-231.

Koji Kotani
Associate Professor
M.S. in Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, 2001
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, 2005

Courses:
Basic Macroeconomics
Agricultural Economics
Environmental Economics
Research Interests:
Environmental economics, agriculture and natural resource management
Major Publications:
"Matching Grants and Charitable Giving: Why People sometimes Provide a Helping Hand to Fund Environmental Goods," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, with Kent D. Messer and William D. Schulze, forthcoming.
"Adaptive Management for Eradication of Exotic Species," Population Ecology, with Makoto Kakinaka and Hiroyuki Matsuda, forthcoming.
"An Interplay between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good in a Large Economy," Public Choice, with Makoto Kakinaka, forthcoming.
"Invasive Species Management in Two-Patch Environments: Agricultural Damage Control in the Raccoon (Procyon Lotor) Problem, Hokkaido, Japan," Population Ecology, Vol.51, No.4, 2009, pp.493-504, with Hiromasa Ishii, Hiroyuki Matsuda and Tohru Ikeda.
"Dynamic Economic Analysis on Invasive Species Management: Some Policy Implications of Catchability," Mathematical Biosciences, Vol.220, No.1, 2009, pp.1-14, with Makoto Kakinaka and Hiroyuki Matsuda.
"Further Investigations of Framing Effects on Cooperative Choice in a Provision Point Mechanism," Economics Bulletin, Vol.3, No.51, 2008, pp.1-9, with Shunsuke Managi and Kenta Tanaka.
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Ching-Yang Lin
Assistant Professor
M.S. in Economics, National Taiwan University, 2003
M.S. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010

Courses:
Monetary Economics and Policy
Financial Economics and Capital Markets
Time Series Econometrics
Research Interests:
Monetary economics, financial economics and computational economics.
Major Publications:
"Timing of Motherhood and Economic Growth," December 2009, mimeo.
"Asset Pricing, Portfolio Decisions in an Incomplete Market," November 2009, mimeo.
"Elderly Asset Management," with Jonathan Feinstein, December 2006.

Eiji Mangyo
Associate Professor
Master in Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1998
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Michigan, 2005

Courses:
Statistics for Business & Economics
Development Economics
Health Economics
Research Interests:
A broad range of issues in development, especially health issues, intra-household economics, economics of happiness, and applied microeconometrics.
Major Publications:
"Who Benefits More from Higher Household Consumption? The Intra-household Allocation of Nutrients in China," Journal of Development Economics, Vol.86(2), 2008, pp.296-312.
"The Effect of Water Accessibility on Child Health in China," Journal of Health Economics, Vol.27(5), 2008, pp1343-1356.
"Whose Income Matters for Health in China? An Examination of the Relative Income Hypothesis," with Albert Park, mimeo.
"Health Insurance and Health Care Utilization by the Elderly: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan," with Albert Park and Ming-Cheng Chang, mimeo.

Hiroaki Miyamoto
Assistant Professor
M.A. in Economics, Keio University, 2002.
M.S. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.

Courses:
Basic Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Research Interests:
Growth and business cycle, monetary theory, search theory,
frictions in the labor market
Major Publications:
"Cyclical Shocks in a Model of Equilibrium Unemployment," The Japanese Economic Review, with Yoshimasa Shirai, forthcoming.
"Job Flows and Unemployment in an Equilibrium Unemployment Model with Firm-Specific Skill Training," The Japanese Economic Review, Vol.57 Issue 4, 2006, pp.547-561, with Yoshimasa Shirai.
"Technological Progress, On-the-Job Search, and Unemployment," ISER Discussion Paper , No. 734, 2009, with Yuya Takahashi.
"The Impact of Productivity Growth on Labor Market Dynamics," September 2008.
"Cyclical Behavior of a Matching Model with Capital Investment," April 2009.

Jinhwan Oh
Assistant Professor
M.A. in Development Studies, Brown University, 2004
Ph.D. in Regional Science, Cornell University, 2009

Courses:
International Trade and Commercial Policy
Microeconomics
Research Interests:
Development economics, regional economics, international trade, microeconomics and Korean economy.
Major Publications:
"Concentration, Congestion and the Dynamics: Spatial Re-modeling of the Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny Model," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 1(2), 2008.
"Korea: A Case Study of 1D-2D-3D Areas," Background Paper, World Development Report 2009, World Bank, 2008.
"Multiple Equilibria: Is Big Push Possible? Evidence from the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea,"Global Business and Finance Review, 12(3), 2007.
"Does Gravity Matter? North Korea's Trade Pattern," mimeo, Cornell University.
"Regional Inequality of South Korea: Conceptualization and Application," mimeo, Cornell University.

Yasuhide Okuyama
Associate Professor
M.S. in Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba, 1986
M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
Ph.D. in Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999

Courses:
Urban and Regional Planning
Urban and Regional Economics
Research Methodology

Research Interests:

Regional economic analysis, economic impact of disasters, input-output analysis, and urban and regional planning

Major Publications:

"Impact Estimation of Disasters Using Social Accounting Matrix Methodology during 1960 and 2007," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2009.
"Interdependency Analysis: Trends and Issues," Sociotechnica,Vol.5, 2008, pp.197-205, with Hideyuki Horii and Kentaro Yamaguchi (in Japanese).
"Economic Modeling for Disaster Impact Analysis: Past, Present, and Future,h Economic Systems Research 19 (2), 2007, pp.115-124.
"Typology of Structural Change in a Regional Economy: a Temporal Inverse Analysis," Economic Systems Research, 18 (2), 2006, pp.133-153, with Michael Sonis, and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings.
Modeling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters, Springer, 2004, with Stephanie E. Chang eds.

Hun Myoung Park
Assistant Professor
M.A. in Public Administration, Korea University, Seoul, February 1993
Ph.D. in Public Policy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, May 2007
Courses:
Public Management, Public Management Information Systems, Public Organization Theory, Public Policy Process
Research Interests:
Policy analysis, Public management information systems (e-government), Public and nonprofit management, and Quantitative data analysis
Major Publications:
"Do Campaign Websites Really Matter in Electoral Civic Engagement? Empirical Evidence from the 2004 Post-election Internet Tracking Survey." Social Science Computer Review, 26(2),Summer, 2008, pp.190-212, with James L. Perry.
"Does Internet Use Really Facilitate Civic Engagement? Empirical Evidences from the American National Election Studies." Civic Engagement in a Networked Society, edited by Erik Bergrud and Kaifeng Yang, 2008, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, pp237-270, with James L. Perry.
"Diffusing the Information Technology Education in the Korean Undergraduate Public Affairs and Administration Programs: Driving Forces and Challenging Issues," Journal of Public Affairs Education, 12(4),Fall 2006, pp.537-555, with Hanjun Park
"A First Look at Users Perception on the Seoul OPEN System," Building Good Governance: Reforms in Seoul, edited by Marc Holzer and Byong-Joon Kim, Seoul, Korea: National Center for Public Productivity and Seoul Development Institute, pp.71-85., with Gant, Jon P. and James L. Perry.

Zafrul Quadir Siddique
Assistant Professor
M.S. in Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1997
M.A in Economics, Carleton University, Canada, 2001
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2009

Courses:
Development Finance
Quantitative Analysis of Economic Policies

Research Interests:

Development economics, economics of gender, labour economics

Major Publications:

"Shocks to Family Income and Gender Differences in Child Schooling Response in Rural India," mimeo.
"Trends in the Gender Wage Differentials and Selection Bias: 1975-2000," mimeo.
"Intrafamily Time Allocation and Changes in Economic Environment in Rural India," mimeo.
"Empowerment of women and labour supply in Bangladesh," mimeo.

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