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  Shigeru Matsumoto joined the Aoyama Gakuin University faculty in 2008. He studied on Heiwa Nakajima Foundation Scholarship at North Carolina State University, where he earned his Ph.D. in economics. He also holds his Masters of Environmental Science from Tsukuba University. Before coming to Aoyama Gakuin University, he spent seven years on the faculty of Kansai University.

  His research interest lies in the applied welfare economics, with particular focus on consumer behavior analysis. In recent years, he studies households' pro-environmental behaviors such as recycling and energy-saving practices as well as consumers' valuation on food attributes such as organic farming. He teaches courses on Environmental and Agricultural Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University.

  • Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2012 to present.
  • Visiting Researcher, Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB),2015-2016.
  • Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies of Japan, 2011-2013
  • Associate Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, 2007 to 2011.
  • Associate Professor, Kansai University, 2003-2006.
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University, 2003.
  • Assistant Professor, Kansai University, 2000-2002.
  • Research Economist, International Development Center of Japan, 1998-1999.

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  • Professor, Faculty of Economics, Matsuyama University, 2018 to present.
  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Matsuyama University, 2017 to 2018.
  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Regional Policies, Takasaki City University of Economics, 2013 to 2017.
  • Assistant Professor, Faculty of Regional Policies, Takasaki City University of Economics, 2011 to 2013.
  • Researcher, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, 2010 to 2011.
  • Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2008 to 2010.

  • Matsumoto, S. and Iwata, K., 2019. Do environmental rebates affect replacement of durable products? The analysis of vehicle ownership duration in Japan, Economic Analysis and Policy, 61, 64-72.
  • Yamamori, T., Iwata, K. and Ogawa, A., 2018. Does Money Illusion Matter in Intertemporal Decision Making?, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 145, 465-473.
  • Iwata, K., Katayama, H. and Arimura, T. H., 2015. Do households misperceive the benefits of energy-saving actions?: Evidence from a Japanese household survey, Energy for Sustainable Development, 25, 27-33.

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Environmental Economics, Applied microeconomics

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  2014.4- present: Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yamagata University
  2003.4-2014.3: Assistant Professor, School of Commerce, Waseda University

  • Sugino, Makoto, Arimura, Toshi H. and Morgenstern, Richard (2013) "The effects of alternative carbon mitigation policies on Japanese industries." Energy Policy 62, 1254-1267.
  • Sugino, Makoto, Morita, Minoru, Iwata, Kazuyuki and Arimura, Toshi H. (2017). "Multiplier impacts and emission reduction effects of Joint Crediting Mechanism: analysis with a Japanese and international disaggregated input–output table." Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 19(3), 635-657.
  • Sugino, Makoto and Toshi H. Arimura (2011) "The effects of voluntary action plans on energy-saving investment: an empirical study of the Japanese manufacturing sector." Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 13(3), 237-257.

Environmental Economics, Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

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  2012.4- present: Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University
  2007.4-2012.3: Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kanto Gakuen University
  2005.4-2007.3: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kanto Gakuen University
  2003.4-2005.3: Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Kanto Gakuen University

  • Takeda, Shiro, Arimura, Toshi H. and Sugino, Makoto (2019) "Labor Market Distortions and Welfare-Decreasing International Emissions Trading." Environmental and Resource Economics, 74 (1), 271-293, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-018-00317-4
  • Takeda, Shiro, Arimura, Toshi H., Tamechika, Hanae, Fischer, Carolyn, & Fox, Alan K. (2014). “Output-based allocation of emissions permits for mitigating the leakage and competitiveness issues for the Japanese economy.” Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 16(1), 89–110, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-013-0072-8
  • Takeda, Shiro (2007) “The double dividend from carbon regulations in Japan”, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 336-364. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2006.01.002

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  April, 2019-present : Professor, Faculty of Economics, Musashi University
  April, 2015-March, 2019: Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Musashi University
  April, 2013-March, 2015: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Musashi University
  April, 2012-March, 2013: Researcher, Graduate school of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University

  • "Which performs better under trader settings, double auction or uniform price auction?", Experimental Economics, Vol.22(1), (2019), pp.247-267. (Coauthors, K Kotani, S Managi)
  • "Decision-Making Governance for Purchases of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Japan", Energy Policy, Vol. 111, (2017),pp.75-84. (Coauthors, M Sekito, S Managi, S Kaneko, V Rai)
  • "Energy conservation and risk of electric outage: A laboratory experimental study", Journal of Energy Engineering, (2016), F4016010. (Coauthors, Y Kurakawa, E Sawada, K Akao, S Managi)

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Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics

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  Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. The research areas include the economics of climate change, natural resource management, and energy policy. Prior to the current position, he worked in the Earth Institute at Columbia University as an Earth Institute Fellow; and as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Minnesota, Hitotsubashi University, Keio University, and Waseda University. His publications include articles in Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Journal of International Economics. He has served as an editorial board member for several journals including Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Singapore Economic Review, and Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. His fields are environmental economics, resource economics, and energy economics.

  • Lynham, John; Nitta, Kohei; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Tarui, Nori "Why does real-time information reduce energy consumption?” Energy Economics, 54, 2016, 173-181.
  • Konishi, Yoshifumi; Tarui, Nori "Emissions Trading, Firm Heterogeneity, and Intra-Industry Reallocations in the Long Run.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 2(1), 2015, 1-42.
  • Tarui, Nori "Electric utility regulation under enhanced renewable energy integration and distributed generation” Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 19(3), 2017, 503-518.
  • li Mason, Charles F.; Polasky, Stephen; Tarui, Nori "Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation” European Economic Review, 99, 2017, 43-55.

Environmental Economics and Policy, Energy Economics and Policy

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  Ken’ichi Matsumoto graduated from Graduate School of Information, Production, and Systems, Waseda University and Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University. He is currently Associate Professor at Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University. Before joining Nagasaki University, he was JSPS Research Fellow (DC2 and PD), Research Associate at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Assistant Professor at the University of Shiga Prefecture.

  • Climate Change Impacts on Socioeconomic Activities through Labor Productivity Changes Considering Interactions between Socioeconomic and Climate Systems Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 216 (2019) pp. 528-541
  • Addressing Key Drivers of Regional CO2 Emissions of the Manufacturing Industry in Japan The Energy Journal, Vol. 40 (2019) pp. 233-258 (Coauthors, Yosuke Shigetomi, Hiroto Shiraki, Yuki Ochi, Yuki Ogawa, and Tomoki Ehara)
  • Economic Instruments to Combat Climate Change in Asian Countries Kluwer Law International (2015) Ken’ichi Matsumoto and Anton Ming-Zhi Gao (eds.)

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