CHIKARA YAMAGUCHI

Last Updated :2024/04/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
E-mail
chikaray at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
I am engaged in theoretical research using an economic approach on how problems that require cooperation among nations, such as global warming and tax competition, can be solved.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D. (Economics), HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
  • M.A. (Economics and Management), Aomori Public College

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Economics : Economics : Economic Analysis
  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Economics : Economics : Economics and Management
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Economics Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Economics Program

Research Fields

  • Social sciences;Economics;Public finance / Public economy

Research Keywords

  • Public Economics

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Japanese Economic Association
  • Applied Regional Science Conference
  • Canadian Economics Association
  • International Institute of Public Finance

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
  2. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Public Economics 1
  3. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Public Economics 2
  4. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Year, Seminar
  5. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Year, Bachelor's Thesis
  6. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Public Economics
  7. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Public Economics
  8. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Topics
  9. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Topics
  10. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Seminar on Economics Program I
  11. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Seminar on Economics Program

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Endogenous Leadership and Sustainability of Enhanced Cooperation in a Repeated Interactions Model of Tax Competition: Endogenous Leadership in Tax Competition, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 25(2), 276-300, 202304
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  2. ★, Overlapping Climate Clubs: Self-Enforcing R&D Networks to Mitigate Global Warming, Games, 13(1(4)), 1-24, 202202
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  3. Are Moderate Leviathans Harmful to Tax Coordination?, FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 76, 165-190, 2020
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  4. Recognition and Coalition Formation (in Japanese), Economic Studies (Hokkaido University), 69(2), 51-63, 2020
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  5. ★, Implementing Partial Tax Harmonization in an Asymmetric Tax Competition Game with Repeated Interaction, Canadian Journal of Economics, 49(4), 1599-1630, 2016
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  6. ★, Partial Tax Coordination in a Repeated Game Setting, European Journal of Political Economy, 34, 263-278, 2014
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  7. ★, Interregional Competition, Spillovers and Attachment in a Federation, Journal of Urban Economics, 67, 219-225, 2010
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  8. ★, Are Regional Asymmetries Detrimental to Tax Coordination in a Repeated Game Setting?, Journal of Public Economics, 92, 2403-2411, 2008
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  9. ★, Leviathan and Pure Public Goods in a Federation with Mobile Populations, Journal of Applied Economics, 7, 369-389, 2004
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  10. Theory and Empirical Evidence of the Flypaper Effects (in Japanese), Economic Studies (Hokkaido University), 52, 69-85, 2002
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  11. Tax Burden and Balance of Trade in an Aging Country (in Japanese), Economic Studies (Hokkaido University), 49, 105-123, 1999
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Publications such as books

  1. Social Systems Solutions by Legal Informatics, Economic Sciences and Computer Sciences, "Tax Coordination between Asymmetric Regions in a Repeated Game Setting", 2010, 2010, Scholarly Book, Contributor, Kitahara, M., and Morioka, K. ed., 43-56
  2. Quantitative Analysis on Contemporary Economic Issues, "Redistribution in the Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good (or Bad)", Kyushu University Press, 2008, Scholarly Book, Contributor, Toyoda, T., and Inoue, T., ed, 45-56
  3. Quantitative Analysis of Modern Economy, "Leviathan and Competition in the Presence of Imperfect Household Mobility", Kyushu Unuversity Press, 2007, Scholarly Book, Contributor, Inoue, T., and Katayama, S., ed., 77-86

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Are Moderate Leviathans Harmful to Tax Coordination?, Chikara Yamaguchi, Workshop "Pressing and Challenging Changes", 2019/05, With Invitation, English, Organized by Prof. Emilson Silva, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada
  2. Who is the small country assumption for?, Chikara Yamaguchi, Public Economics Workshop, Tokyo University, 2018/12, With Invitation, Japanese, Tokyo University
  3. Are Moderate Leviathans Harmful to Tax Coordination?, Chikara Yamaguchi, 74th Annual Congress of the IIPF, 2018/08, Without Invitation, English, International Institute of Public Finance, Tampere, Finland
  4. Are Moderate Leviathans Harmful to Tax Coordination?, Chikara Yamaguchi, Joint Workshop on Fiscal Federalism, 2018/05, With Invitation, English, Co-organized by University of Alberta, Catholic University of Brasilia, and University of Brasilia, Catholic University of Brasilia in Brasilia, Brazil
  5. Market Size, Firm Location, and Tacit Collusion in Non-traded Good Industries, Chikara Yamaguchi, 7th Asian Seminar in Regional Science, 2017/09, Without Invitation, English, Applied Regional Science Conference, National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan
  6. Tax Coordination among Moderate Leviathans, Chikara Yamaguchi, 73rd Annual Congress of the IIPF, 2017/08, With Invitation, English, International Institute of Public Finance, Tokyo University and Kokusai Fashion Center in Tokyo, Japan
  7. Tax Coordination among Moderate Leviathans, Chikara Yamaguchi, 18th Annual Meeting of the APET, 2017/07, Without Invitation, English, Association for Public Economic Theory, Université Paris II Panthéon Assas in Paris, France
  8. Tax Coordination among Moderate Leviathans, Chikara Yamaguchi, Hiroshima University - Nanyang Technological University Joint Economics Workshop, 2017/03, Without Invitation, English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  9. Does Endogenous Timing Matter in Implementing Partial Tax Harmonization?, Chikara Yamaguchi, Regional Science Seminar, Kagawa University, 2016/11, With Invitation, Japanese, Kagawa University
  10. Does Endogenous Timing Matter in Implementing Partial Tax Harmonization?, Chikara Yamaguchi, 6th Asian Seminar in Regional Science, 2016/09, Without Invitation, English, Applied Regional Science Conference, Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan
  11. Does Endogenous Timing Matter in Implementing Partial Tax Harmonization?, Chikara Yamaguchi, 71st Annual Congress of the IIPF, 2015/08, Without Invitation, English, International Institute of Public Finance, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland
  12. Does Endogenous Timing Matter in Implementing Partial Tax Harmonization?, Chikara Yamaguchi, Kwansai Public Economics Workshop, 2015/06, Without Invitation, English, Kwansai Public Economics Workshop, Konan University
  13. Does Endogenous Timing Matter in Implementing Partial Tax Harmonization?, Chikara Yamaguchi, Spring Meeting, Japanese Economic Association, 2015/05, Without Invitation, Japanese, Japanese Economic Association, Niigata University
  14. Coalition-Proof Overlapping International Green R&D Agreements, Chikara Yamaguchi, 27th Annual meeting, Applied Regional Science Conference, 2013/12, Without Invitation, Japanese, Applied Regional Science Conference, Kyoto University
  15. Coalition-Proof Hub-and-Spoke and Multilateral Green Technology International Agreements, Chikara Yamaguchi, 69th Annual Congress of the IIPF, 2013/08, Without Invitation, English, International Institute of Public Finance, Taormina, Sicily, Italy

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Scientific Research (C)), Theoretical Research on the Policy Coordination among Asymmetric Countries, 2020, 2024
  2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Scientific Research (C)), Research on the International Strategic Alliances under Transaction Costs, 2016, 2019
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Scientific Research (C)), On the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Intergovernmental Partial Coordination, 2012, 2015
  4. Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), On the Formation and Sustainability of Intergovernmental Coordination under a Decentralized Economy, 2008, 2011
  5. Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up), Asymmetric Tax Competition in a Repeated Game Setting, 2006, 2007