Current Position

Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Tohoku Gakuin University

Visiting Associate Professor, Research Center for Policy Design, Tohoku University

CV (April 2023) / Google Scholar Citation / Researchmap

Field of Interests

Urban Economics, Environmental Economics, Climate Change

Upcoming Talks

2026/5/23-24 Japanese Economic Association

2026/6/29-7/3 WCERE

Papers 

• Direct and Indirect Economic Impacts of Sea Level Rise

In: Mimura, N., Takewaka, S. (eds) Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in Japan. Springer, Singapore., 2025.  

(with Itakura, K., Hibiki, A., Tamura, M., Yokoki, H.)  [Paper]

• Determinants of Farmers’ Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change

In: Mimura, N., Takewaka, S. (eds) Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in Japan. Springer, Singapore., 2025.  

(with Shinsuke Uchida, Katsuhito Nohara, & Akira Hibiki)  [Paper]

• Cities and biodiversity: spatial efficiency of land use 

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 197, 685-705, 2022.  (with Tatsuhito Kono)  [Paper]

• Optimal land use regulation for human-coyote conflicts in the Denver metropolitan area 

Sustainability, 14(3), 1210, 2022.  (with Tatsuhito Kono) [Paper]

• Simultaneous optimization of multiple taxes on car use and tolls considering the marginal cost of public funds in Japan 

The Japanese Economic Review, 72(2), 261-297, 2021.  (with Tatsuhito Kono and Yohei Mitsuhiro) [Paper]

• Land use policies considering a natural ecosystem 

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 83, 103552, 2020.  (with Tatsuhito Kono) [Paper]

• Framework for proper beach nourishment as an adaptation to beach erosion due to sea level rise

Journal of Coastal Research, 70, 467-472, 2014.  (with Keiko Udo, Yuriko Takeda, & Akira Mano)

• Potential impact of climate change at five Japanese beaches 

Journal of Coastal Research, 65, 2185-2190, 2013.  (with Keiko Udo, Yuriko Takeda, & Akira Mano)

• Long-term area change of two tidal flats in Japan and its future projection due to sea level rise 

Journal of Coastal Research, 65, 1975-1980, 2013.  (with Keiko Udo, Yuriko Takeda, & Akira Mano)

Working Papers

• The Impact of Flight Noise on Urban Housing Markets: Evidence from the New Landing Flight Paths of Haneda Air- port in Japan. (with Sugasawa, Takeru, Yuta Kuroda, Kai Nomura, Shohei Yasuda)

 DSSR Discussion Papers 144, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, 2024. [Paper]

• Agricultural and urban land use policies to manage human–wildlife conflicts

 MPRA Paper, 115375, 2022. (with Tomoko Imoto & Tatsuhito Kono) [Paper]

• Liability Rules and Safety Performance in a Society with Fully Autonomous Vehicles (in Japanese) 

RIETI Discussion Paper Series, 22-J-035, 2022. (with Akira Hibiki and Takayoshi Shinkuma) [Paper]

• Does disclosure of success rates induce patients to move to a better clinic? Evidence from in vitro fertilization

MPRA Paper, 2021. [Paper]

• Natural Disasters and Firm Selection: Heterogeneous Effects of Flooding Events on Manufacturing Sectors in Japan 

Tohoku University Policy Design Lab Discussion Paper, 2021. (with Shinsuke Uchida, Katsuhito Nohara, & Akira Hibiki) [Paper]

• Optimal Car-related Taxes and Pricing in Beijing Considering the Marginal Cost of Public Funds

 MPRA Paper, 2020. (with Tatsuhito Kono) [Paper]

• Travel cost method considering trip-day counts as integers 

MPRA Paper, 2020. (with Tatsuhito Kono) [Paper]

Work in Progress 

• Impact of Hospital Performance Disclosure on Physician-Patient Matching and Regional Healthcare Disparities

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist (PI), 2022 - 2025

• Optimal Balance between biodiversity and risk arising from human-wildlife contacts: ecology meets economics 

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Challenging Research (Pioneering), 2021 - 2025

• Development of Economic Assessment Methods for Impact of Climate Change Adaptation Options (S-18)

Environment Research and Technology Development Fund, 2020 - 2025

• The political economy of pricing decisions for congestable local public goods under the threat of Covid-19 

(with Shuichi Tsugawa)

Past Conference and Seminar Presentations

Seminar presentations 

• 2026: Aoyama Gakuen U, Tohoku U, J-TREE

• 2025: AREW

• 2024: AREW, Kansai Labour Economics Workshop, J-TREE, Ryukoku U, Tohoku U

• 2023: Kobe University, GRIPS, Asia Growth Research Institute, Applied Regional Economics Workshop, TGU, J-TREE

• 2022: Tohoku Gakuin University (TGU), J-TREE(Environmental economics seminor series), Kobe University, Kyushu University

• 2021: Okinawa University, Nagoya City University, Housing Research & Advancement Foundation of Japan

• 2018: Kyoto University

• 2016: National Chengchi University@Taiwan

Conference presentations

• 2025: EcoSta2025

• 2024: European Health Economics Association@Vienna, SEEPS

• 2023: International Conference on Agricultural and Environmental Economics@Taiwan, AASLE@Taiwan, Japanese Economic Association, SEEPS workshop

• 2022: Hiroshima International Conference on Peace and Sustainability 

• 2021: Applied Regional Science Conference, Labor Economics Conference, Western Economic Association International

• 2019: Applied Regional Science Conference

• 2018: Urban Economics Association,  6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

• 2017: Applied Regional Science Conference, Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

• 2016: North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Applied Regional Science Conference, Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

• 2015: Applied Regional Science Conference