Takehiro USUI

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Personal History

• Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Soka University, 2008.
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Soka University, 2005.
• Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Hokusei Gakuen University, 2003.

Classes

• Foundation course in Economics (1st Year)
• Mathematics for Economics (1st Year)
• Primary Statistics (1st Year)
• Seminor II (3rd Years)

• Environmental Economics (Department of Economics, 2nd Years)
• Environmental Economics (Department of Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis, 2nd Years)
• Contemporary Japanese Economy (JAS Program: Japan-Asia Studies Program ) New
• Science of Global Warming (Liberal arts, part time) New
• Seminor III (3rd Years)
• Seminor IV (4th Years)

Discussion Papers

1. "Estimating Garbage Reduction and Recycling Promotion under Unit-based Pricing: An Application of the Multivariate Sample Selection Model," with Tetsuo Suwa, HOPS Discussion Paper Series, 12, Hokkaido University Public Policy School.

2. "Estimating the Sustainability of Unit - Based Pricing Using Panel Data - Household Waste Reduction and Promotion of Sorting Recyclables -," Discussion Paper 2010, 001, Faculty of Economics, Soka University.

3. "Short and Long Run Responses to Pricing Waste," Discussion Paper 2009, 006, Faculty of Economics, Soka University.

4. "An Assessment of Unit-Based Pricing in Japan," Discussion Paper 2008, 005, Faculty of Economics, Soka University (In Japanese).

Papers

1. Takehiro Usui (2011) "Does a Rebound Effect Exist in Unit-Based Pricing? - An Assessment of Long-Run Reduction and Reallocation Effect," Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, (4)1, forthcoming.(In Japanese)

2. Takehiro Usui (201?) "Panel Data Analysis of Incineration and Landfill Cost," Empirical Economics Letters, forthcoming.

3. Takehiro Usui (2009) "Does a Rebound Effect Exist in Solid Waste Management?," Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation Volume VII, edited by Lin Heng Lye, Janet Milne, Hope Ashiabor, Larry Kreiser, and Kurt Deketelaere, 413-422.

4. Takehiro Usui (2008) "An Assessment of Unit-Based Pricing in Japan," Journal of Japan Waste Management Association, 61(286), 504-507.(In Japanese)

5. Takehiro Usui (2008) "Estimating Effect of Unit-Based Pricing under the Japanese Recycling Law; In the Presence of Sample Selection Bias," Ecological Economics, 66, 282-288.

6. Takehiro Usui (2007) "A Cost Structure Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Management Using Panel Data," Journal of the Japan Society of Waste Management Experts, 18(6), 417-425.(In Japanese)

7. Tatsuo Suwa and Takehiro Usui (2007) "Estimation of Garbage Reduction and Recycling Promotion under the Containers and Packaging Recycling Law and Garbage Pricing," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 8(3), 239-254.

8. Takehiro Usui (2003) "Decomposing and Predicting the Price Elasticity of Demand for Household Waste Disposal Service," Environmental Science, 16(4), 271-280.(In Japanese)

9. Takehiro Usui (2002) "Regional Input Output Analysis of Industrial Waste : Developing a Price Model for Hyogo Prefecture, Japan," Journal of Applied Input-Output Analysis, 8, 67-87.

Soka University

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