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Takahiro Akita
Dean and Professor
M.S. in Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1974
Ph.D. in Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1981
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Development Planning (Multisector Models)
Quantitative Method for Decision Making
Inequality and Poverty: Measurement and Applications |
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Regional economic development, income inequality and poverty, environmentally sustainable development, international inter-dependence and growth |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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Makoto Kakinaka
Associate Professor and Program Director
M.A. in Economics, Cornell University, 2004
Ph.D. in Economics, Cornell University, 2006
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Mathematics and Computing for Economics
International Finance
Japanese Banking and
Financial System |
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International economics and Development economics
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"Real Shock or Nominal Shock? Exchange Rate Movements in Cambodia and Lao
PDR," Singapore Economic Review, with Seiha Ok and Hiroaki Miyamoto, forthcoming.
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"Exchange Rates, Price Levels, and Inflation Targeting: Evidence from Asian Countries," Japan and the World Economy, with Weera Prasertnukul and Donghun Kim, forthcoming.
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"An Interplay between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good in a Large Economy," Public Choice, with Koji Kotani, forthcoming.
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"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. |
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"Dynamic Economic Analysis on Invasive Species Management: Some Policy Implications of Catchability,", Mathematical Biosciences, 220(1), 2009, pp.1-14, with Koji Kotani and Hiroyuki Matsuda.
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"Terrorism and Deterrence Policy with Transnational Support," Defence and Peace Economics, 19(2), 2008, pp.153-167, with Grace F. Sanico.
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Ryuta Ray Kato
Professor
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
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Public Finance
Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
Applied Econometrics
Public Sector Economics |
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An aging population, health related issues, government deficits, issues in public pension scheme, information economics, applications of stochastic processes in economics
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gIntrinsic Motivation of Physicians,h GSIR Working Paper Series, EAP08-1, GSIR, International University of Japan, 2008, with Makoto Kakinaka.
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gPublic Debt and Economic Growth in an Aging Japan," in Kaizuka and Krueger eds. Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Aging, Chapter 3, IMF, Palgrave, 2006, with Ihori, Kawade and Bessho.
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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.
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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. |
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gTransition to an Aging Japan: Public Pension, Savings, and Capital Taxation,h Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 12, 1998, pp.204-231.
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Koji Kotani
Associate Professor
M.S. in Agricultural Economics, Cornell
University, 2001
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, 2005
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Basic Macroeconomics
Agricultural Economics
Environmental Economics |
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Environmental economics, agriculture and natural resource management
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"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.
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"Adaptive Management for Eradication of Exotic Species," Population Ecology, with Makoto Kakinaka and Hiroyuki Matsuda, forthcoming.
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"An Interplay between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Voluntary
Contributions to a Public Good in a Large Economy," Public Choice, with
Makoto Kakinaka, forthcoming.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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
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Monetary Economics and Policy
Financial Economics and Capital Markets
Time Series Econometrics
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Monetary economics,
financial economics and
computational economics.
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"Timing of Motherhood and Economic Growth," December 2009, mimeo.
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"Asset Pricing, Portfolio Decisions in an Incomplete Market," November 2009, mimeo.
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"Elderly Asset Management," with Jonathan Feinstein, December 2006.
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Eiji Mangyo
Associate Professor
Master in Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1998
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Michigan, 2005
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Statistics for Business & Economics
Development Economics
Health Economics |
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A broad range of issues in development, especially health issues, intra-household economics, economics of happiness, and applied microeconometrics.
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"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,.
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"The Effect of Water Accessibility on Child Health in China," Journal of Health Economics, Vol.27(5), 2008, pp1343-1356.
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"Whose Income Matters for Health in China? An Examination of the Relative Income Hypothesis," with Albert Park, mimeo.
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"Health Insurance and Health Care Utilization by the Elderly: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan," with Albert Park and Ming-Cheng Chang, mimeo.
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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.
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Basic Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis |
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Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Search Theory, Growth and Business Cycle
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"R&D, Unemployment, and Labor Market Policies," Japan and the World Economy, forthcoming.
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"Cyclical Shocks in a Model of Equilibrium Unemployment," Japanese Economic Review, with Yoshimasa
Shirai, forthcoming.
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"Real Shock or Nominal Shock? Exchange Rate Movements in Cambodia and Lao PDR," Singapore Economic Review, with Seiha Ok and Makoto Kakinaka, forthcoming.
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"Job Flows and Unemployment in an Equilibrium Unemployment Model with
Firm-Specific Skill Training," Japanese Economic
Review, Vol.57 Issue 4, 2006, pp.547-561, with Yoshimasa Shirai.
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"Cyclical Behavior of Unemployment and Job Vacancies in Japan," GSIR Working Papers, Economic Analysis and Policy Series , EAP09-8, December 2009.
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"Technological Progress, On-the-Job Search, and Unemployment," ISER Discussion Paper , No.734, 2009, with Yuya Takahashi.
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"Cyclical Behavior of a Matching Model with Capital Investment," April 2009.
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"The Impact of Productivity Growth on Labor Market Dynamics," September 2008.
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Jinhwan Oh
Assistant Professor
M.A. in Development Studies, Brown University, 2004
Ph.D. in Regional Science, Cornell University, 2009
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International Trade and Commercial Policy
Microeconomics |
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Development economics, regional economics, international trade,
microeconomics and Korean economy.
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"Concentration, Congestion and the Dynamics: Spatial Re-modeling of the
Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny Model," Letters in Spatial and Resource
Sciences, 1(2), 2008.
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"Korea: A Case Study of 1D-2D-3D Areas," Background Paper, World
Development Report 2009, World Bank, 2008.
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"Multiple Equilibria: Is Big Push Possible? Evidence from the Kaesong
Industrial Complex in North Korea,"Global Business and Finance Review, 12(3), 2007.
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"Does Gravity Matter? North Korea's Trade Pattern," mimeo, Cornell
University.
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"Regional Inequality of South Korea: Conceptualization and Application,"
mimeo, Cornell University.
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Yoshikuni Ono
Assistant Professor
LL.M. in Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, 2001
M.A. in Political Science, University of Michigan, 2005
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Michigan, 2010
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Comparative Politics,
Comparative Analysis of Public Policy, Public Administration
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Parliamentary democracy, coalition formation, legislative institutions, Political parties, intra-party politics, electoral systems, Delegation of power, bureaucracy, institutional development, Japanese politics |
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"Spatial Theory and Voting Behavior." in Masahiro Yamada, ed.
Tohyo Kodo Kenkyu no Furontfia [Frontiers of Voting Behavior Studies] Tokyo: Brain-Shuppan, 2009.
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"Nonprofit Organizations and Policy Process: Public Interest Groups and Issue Networks in Japan." Kokkagakkai Zasshi, 115, 2002, pp.132-92.
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"Legislative Activities of the Members of the Diet," in the Ikuo Kabashima Seminar, ed.,Gendai Nihon no Seijika Zo [Members of the Japanese Diet: An Analysis of Their Political Activities, 1990-1998], Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2000. |
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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
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Public Management,
Public Management Information Systems,
Public Organization Theory,
Public Policy Process
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Policy analysis, Public management information systems (e-government), Public and nonprofit management, and Quantitative data analysis |
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"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.
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"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.
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"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 |
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"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.
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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
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