YUICHIRO YOSHIDA
Last Updated :2023/05/10
- Affiliations, Positions
- The IDEC Institute, Professor
- E-mail
- yuichiro
hiroshima-u.ac.jp
- Self-introduction
- At IDEC, studying both quantitatively and analytically policy issues concerning economic development centering around transportation with policy makers from around the world.
Basic Information
Major Professional Backgrounds
- 2001/03, The University of British Columbia, Visiting Researcher
- 2001/09, International University of Japan, Lecturer
- 2005/04/01, 2007/03/31, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Associate Professor
- 2013/04/01, 2020/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Professor
Educational Backgrounds
- Boston College, USA, Economics, U.S.A., 2001/02
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D in Economics, Boston College, USA
Research Fields
- Social sciences;Economics;Economic policy
Research Keywords
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2023, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Statistics
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Japanese Experience of Social Development- Economy, Infrastructure, and Peace
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Science History for Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2023, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Year, Research into Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Development Macroeconomics I
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Development Macroeconomics II
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Applied Econometrics I
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Applied Econometrics II
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Study (April 2023 Master's Students)
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Study (October 2023 Master's Students)
- 2023, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study (April 2023 Doctoral Students)
- 2023, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study (October 2023 Doctoral Students)
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, International Environmental Cooperation Studies
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Practical Seminar on International Cooperation Project
- 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Arts & Science for Evidence-Based Decision Making
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- Effect of Forced Relocation on Household Income and Consumption Patterns: Evidence from the Aynak Copper Mine Project in Afghanistan, Journal of Development Studies, 54(11), 2061-2077, 20181102
- Quantifying the impact of low-cost carriers on international air passenger movements to and from major airports in Asia, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 62, 28-57, 20190101
- The commuter’s time-of-use decision and optimal pricing and service in urban mass transit, Journal of Urban Economics, 51(1), 170-195, 20020101
- Spatial econometric analysis of automobile and motorcycle traffic on Indonesian national roads and its socio-economic determinants: Is it local or beyond city boundaries?, IATSS Research, 42(2), 76-85, 20180701
- Endogenous-weight TFP measurement: Methodology and its application to Japanese-airport benchmarking, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 40(2), 151-182, 20040101
- Measuring the impact of modern waste collection and processing service attributes on residents’ acceptance of waste separation policy using a randomised conjoint field experiment in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia, Waste Management and Research, 36(9), 841-848, 20180901
- Japanese-airport benchmarking with the DEA and endogenous-weight TFP methods: Testing the criticism of overinvestment in Japanese regional airports, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 40(6), 533-546, 20040101
- Recent Political Change in Myanmar and Its Impact on her Economic Growth, Asian Economic Journal, 32(1), 39-54, 20180301
- Comparative analysis of efficiency for major Northeast Asia airports, Transportation Journal, 49(4), 9-23, 20100901
- Modal choice between air and rail: A social efficiency benchmarking analysis that considers CO2 emissions, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 13(2), 89-102, 20110601
- Efficiency measurement theory and its application to airport benchmarking, A Handbook of Transport Economics, 298-318, 20110101
- Productive efficiency of public and private solid waste logistics and its implications for waste management policy, IATSS Research, 36(2), 98-105, 20130301
- Impact of investment climate on total factor productivity of manufacturing firms in Vietnam, Sustainability (Switzerland), 10(12), 20181217
- Erratum: The decoupling of and affluence discharge under spatial correlation: Do richer communities discharge more waste? - CORRIGENDUM (Environment and Development Economics (2014) DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X14000370), Environment and Development Economics, 20(2), 20150411
- The decoupling of affluence and waste discharge under spatial correlation: Do richer communities discharge more waste?, Environment and Development Economics, 20(2), 161-184, 20150411
- Does the NIMBY strategy really promote a self-interest?: Evidence from England’s waste management policy, Handbook on Waste Management, 171-185, 20140101
- Benchmarking, efficiency measurement, and productivity analysis for aviation sector in Asia, Routledge Handbook of Transport in Asia, 402-417, 20180612
- Effectiveness of a power factor correction policy in improving the energy efficiency of large-scale electricity users in Ghana, Energies, 12(13), 20190101
- Political economy of voluntary approaches: A lesson from environmental policies in Japan, Economic Analysis and Policy, 64, 41-53, 20191201
- Impact of high-speed rail network development on airport traffic and traffic distribution: Evidence from China and Japan, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 127, 115-135, 20190901
- The causal effect of access to finance on productivity of small and medium enterprises in Vietnam, Sustainability (Switzerland), 11(19), 20191001
- Impacts of mainstream hydropower dams on fisheries and agriculture in lower mekong basin, Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(6), 20200301
- Measuring the impacts of saffron production promotion measures on farmers' policy acceptance probability: A randomized conjoint field experiment in Herat province, Afghanistan, Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(10), 20200501
- What farmers expect from the proposed formal agricultural credit policy: evidence from a randomized conjoint experiment in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, Agricultural Finance Review, 81(4), 578-595, 20200101
- Agricultural credit and extension services: Does their synergy augment farmers’ economic outcomes?, Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(7), 20210401
- The impact of smart prepaid metering on non-technical losses in Ghana, Energies, 14(7), 20210401
- Mining-induced displacement and resettlement in Afghanistan's Aynak mining community: Exploring the right to fair compensation, Resources Policy, 74, 20211201
- Household access to water and education for girls: The case of villages in hilly and mountainous areas of Nepal, Oxford Development Studies, 50(2), 142-157, 20220101
- Measuring the impact of ASEAN Open Skies on international air traffic movements from and to Southeast Asian Cities, Transport Policy, 110, 368-378, 20210901
- A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models, Journal of Urban Economics, 128, 20220301
- The impact of unconditional cash and food assistance on contraceptive expenditure of rural households in Coastal Bangladesh: Evidence from fuzzy RDD, PLoS ONE, 17(1 January), 20220101
- A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models, Journal of Urban Economics, 128, 20220301
- Equivalence Gain of the Global Financial Crisis: A Note, Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 20(1), 111-121, 20210601
- Does access to agricultural credit help disaster-affected farming households to invest more on agricultural input?, Agricultural Finance Review, 20220101
- Equivalence Gain of the Global Financial Crisis: A Note, Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 20(1), 111-121, 20210601
- Productive Efficiency of Public and Private Solid Waste Logistics and Its Implications for Waste Management Policy, International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) Research, 36(2), 98-105, 20130101
- Heterogeneity on the Technical Efficiency in Japanese Airports, Singapore Economic Review, 56(4), 523-34, 20110101
- Pricing, Capacity, and Construction Boundary of a Congestible Highway with an Elastic Demand: Social Optimum, Second Best, Privatization, and Vertical Disintegration, Japanese Economic Review, 62(3), 401-24, 20110101
- Social efficiency benchmarking of Japanese domestic transport services: a comparison of rail and air, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 16(7), 554-61, 20110101
- Modal Choice between Air and Rail: Approach from Social Efficiency Benchmarking considering CO2 Emissions, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 13, 89-102, 20110101
- Technical Efficiency, Regulation, and Heterogeneity in Japanese Airports, Pacific Economic Review, 15(5), 685-96, 20101201
- Comparative Analysis of Efficiency for Major Northeast Asia Airports, Transportation Journal, pp.9-23, 20100101
- Productivity Growth and Biased Technological Change in Japanese Airports, Transport Policy, 17(4), 259-65, 20100801
- Dynamic and static productivity measurements of Japanese airlines: can they really compete through the liberalization in Asian aviation industry?, Far Eastern Studies, 10, 31-63, 20080101
- ★, Commuter Arrivals and Optimal Service in Mass Transit: Does Queuing Behavior at Transit Stops Matter?, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38(3), 228-51, 20080501
- ★, Japanese-airport benchmarking with the DEA and endogenous-weight TFP methods: testing the criticism of over investment in Japanese regional airports, Transportation Research Part E, 40(6), 533-46, 20041101
- ★, Endogenous-weight TFP measurement: methodology and its application to Japanese-airport benchmarking, Transportation Research Part E, 40(2), 151-182, 20040301
- ★, The Commuter's Time-of-Use Decision and Optimal Pricing and Service in Urban Mass Transit, Journal of Urban Economics, 51(1), 170-95, 20020101
- Developments in the Deregulated Air Transport Market, Journal of Air Transport Management, 7(5), 263-4, 20010101
- The Decoupling of Affluence and Waste Discharge under Spatial Correlation: Do Richer Communities Discharge More Waste?, Environment and Development Economics, volume 20, issue 02, pp. 161-184., 20(2), 161-184, 2015
- Limitations of DEA-based approach and alternative methods in the measurement and comparison of social efficiency across firms in different transport modes: An empirical study in Japan, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 57, pp. 16-26, October 2013., 57, 16-26, 2013
- Does Institutional Failure Undermine the Physical Design Performance of Solar Water Pumping Systems in Rural Nepal?, SUSTAINABILITY, 8(8), 201608
- On the discrepancy in the social efficiency measures between parametric and non-parametric production technology identification, JOURNAL OF AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT, 58, 9-14, 201701
- Airlines' reaction to high-speed rail entries: Empirical study of the Northeast Asian market, TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE, 94, 532-557, 201612
- Environmental impact and travel time savings of a new monorail system in colombo's commuting traffic, TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT, 51, 122-128, 201703
- Do exogenous shocks better leverage the benefits of technological change in the staged elimination of differential environmental regulations? Evidence from China's cement industry before and after the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake, JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 164, 1167-1179, 20171015
- Recent Political Change in Myanmar and Its Impact on her Economic Growth, ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 32(1), 39-54, 201803
- Airline Market Structure and Airport Efficiency: Evidence from Northeast Asian Airports, Vol. 33, pp. 32-42, October 2013., Vol. 33, pp. 32-42, October 2013., 2013
- Efficiency Measurement Theory and its Application to Airport Benchmarking, A Handbook of Transport Economics edited by André de Palma, Robin Lindsey, Emile Quinet, and Roger Vickerman, Edward Elgar Publishing, Chapter 13, 298-318, 2011
- ★, Quantifying the Impact of Low-cost Carriers on International Air Passenger Movements to and from Major Airports in Asia, International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming., 2019
- ★, Effect of Forced Relocation on Household Income and Consumption Patterns: Evidence from the Aynak Copper Mine Project in Afghanistan, The Journal of Development Studies, 2018
- Does institutional failure undermine the physical design performance of solar water pumping systems in rural Nepal?, Sustainability (Switzerland), 8(8), 20160809
- Airlines’ reaction to high-speed rail entries: Empirical study of the Northeast Asian market, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 94, 532-557, 20161201
- On the discrepancy in the social efficiency measures between parametric and non-parametric production technology identification, Journal of Air Transport Management, 58, 9-14, 20170101
- Do exogenous shocks better leverage the benefits of technological change in the staged elimination of differential environmental regulations? Evidence from China's cement industry before and after the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake, Journal of Cleaner Production, 164, 1167-1179, 20171015
- Recent Political Change in Myanmar and Its Impact on her Economic Growth, ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 32(1), 39-54, 2018
- Environmental impact and travel time savings of a new monorail system in colombo's commuting traffic, TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT, 51, 122-128, 2017
- Limitations of DEA-based approach and alternative methods in the measurement and comparison of social efficiency across firms in different transport modes: An empirical study in Japan, TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW, 57, 16-26, 2013
- Airline market structure and airport efficiency: Evidence from major Northeast Asian airports, JOURNAL OF AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT, 33, 32-42, 2013
- Productivity growth and biased technological change in Japanese airports, TRANSPORT POLICY, 17(4), 259-265, 2010
- TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY, REGULATION AND HETEROGENEITY IN JAPANESE AIRPORTS, PACIFIC ECONOMIC REVIEW, 15(5), 685-696, 2010
- Comparative Analysis of Efficiency for Major Northeast Asia Airports, TRANSPORTATION JOURNAL, 49(4), 9-23, 2010
- PRICING, CAPACITY, AND CONSTRUCTION BOUNDARY OF A CONGESTIBLE HIGHWAY WITH AN ELASTIC DEMAND: SOCIAL OPTIMUM, SECOND BEST, PRIVATIZATION, AND VERTICAL DISINTEGRATION, JAPANESE ECONOMIC REVIEW, 62(3), 401-424, 2011
- Commuter arrivals and optimal service in mass transit: Does queuing behavior at transit stops matter?, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38(3), 228-251, 20080501
- Social efficiency benchmarking of Japanese domestic transport services: A comparison of rail and air, TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT, 16(7), 554-561, 2011
- Heterogeneity on the technical efficiency in Japanese airports, Singapore Economic Review, 56(4), 523-534, 20111201
- The decoupling of affluence and waste discharge under spatial correlation: Do richer communities discharge more waste?, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, 20(2), 161-184, 2015
- Mining-induced displacement and resettlement in Afghanistan's Aynak mining community: Exploring the right to fair compensation, Resources Policy, 74, 2021