YUICHIRO YOSHIDA

Last Updated :2023/05/10

Affiliations, Positions
The IDEC Institute, Professor
E-mail
yuichirohiroshima-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

  • Transportation Economics

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2023, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Statistics
  2. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Japanese Experience of Social Development- Economy, Infrastructure, and Peace
  3. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Science History for Humanities and Social Sciences
  4. 2023, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Year, Research into Humanities and Social Sciences
  5. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Development Macroeconomics I
  6. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Development Macroeconomics II
  7. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Applied Econometrics I
  8. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Applied Econometrics II
  9. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Study (April 2023 Master's Students)
  10. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Study (October 2023 Master's Students)
  11. 2023, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study (April 2023 Doctoral Students)
  12. 2023, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study (October 2023 Doctoral Students)
  13. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, International Environmental Cooperation Studies
  14. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Practical Seminar on International Cooperation Project
  15. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Arts & Science for Evidence-Based Decision Making

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Recent Political Change in Myanmar and Its Impact on her Economic Growth, Asian Economic Journal, 32(1), 39-54, 20180301
  9. Comparative analysis of efficiency for major Northeast Asia airports, Transportation Journal, 49(4), 9-23, 20100901
  10. 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
  11. Efficiency measurement theory and its application to airport benchmarking, A Handbook of Transport Economics, 298-318, 20110101
  12. Productive efficiency of public and private solid waste logistics and its implications for waste management policy, IATSS Research, 36(2), 98-105, 20130301
  13. Impact of investment climate on total factor productivity of manufacturing firms in Vietnam, Sustainability (Switzerland), 10(12), 20181217
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Does the NIMBY strategy really promote a self-interest?: Evidence from England’s waste management policy, Handbook on Waste Management, 171-185, 20140101
  17. Benchmarking, efficiency measurement, and productivity analysis for aviation sector in Asia, Routledge Handbook of Transport in Asia, 402-417, 20180612
  18. Effectiveness of a power factor correction policy in improving the energy efficiency of large-scale electricity users in Ghana, Energies, 12(13), 20190101
  19. Political economy of voluntary approaches: A lesson from environmental policies in Japan, Economic Analysis and Policy, 64, 41-53, 20191201
  20. 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
  21. The causal effect of access to finance on productivity of small and medium enterprises in Vietnam, Sustainability (Switzerland), 11(19), 20191001
  22. Impacts of mainstream hydropower dams on fisheries and agriculture in lower mekong basin, Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(6), 20200301
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. Agricultural credit and extension services: Does their synergy augment farmers’ economic outcomes?, Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(7), 20210401
  26. The impact of smart prepaid metering on non-technical losses in Ghana, Energies, 14(7), 20210401
  27. Mining-induced displacement and resettlement in Afghanistan's Aynak mining community: Exploring the right to fair compensation, Resources Policy, 74, 20211201
  28. 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
  29. Measuring the impact of ASEAN Open Skies on international air traffic movements from and to Southeast Asian Cities, Transport Policy, 110, 368-378, 20210901
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. Equivalence Gain of the Global Financial Crisis: A Note, Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 20(1), 111-121, 20210601
  34. Does access to agricultural credit help disaster-affected farming households to invest more on agricultural input?, Agricultural Finance Review, 20220101
  35. Equivalence Gain of the Global Financial Crisis: A Note, Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 20(1), 111-121, 20210601
  36. 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
  37. Heterogeneity on the Technical Efficiency in Japanese Airports, Singapore Economic Review, 56(4), 523-34, 20110101
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. Modal Choice between Air and Rail: Approach from Social Efficiency Benchmarking considering CO2 Emissions, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 13, 89-102, 20110101
  41. Technical Efficiency, Regulation, and Heterogeneity in Japanese Airports, Pacific Economic Review, 15(5), 685-96, 20101201
  42. Comparative Analysis of Efficiency for Major Northeast Asia Airports, Transportation Journal, pp.9-23, 20100101
  43. Productivity Growth and Biased Technological Change in Japanese Airports, Transport Policy, 17(4), 259-65, 20100801
  44. 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
  45. ★, 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
  46. ★, 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
  47. ★, Endogenous-weight TFP measurement: methodology and its application to Japanese-airport benchmarking, Transportation Research Part E, 40(2), 151-182, 20040301
  48. ★, 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
  49. Developments in the Deregulated Air Transport Market, Journal of Air Transport Management, 7(5), 263-4, 20010101
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. Does Institutional Failure Undermine the Physical Design Performance of Solar Water Pumping Systems in Rural Nepal?, SUSTAINABILITY, 8(8), 201608
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  53. 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
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  54. 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
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  55. 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
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  56. 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
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  57. Recent Political Change in Myanmar and Its Impact on her Economic Growth, ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 32(1), 39-54, 201803
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  58. 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
  59. 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
  60. ★, 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
  61. ★, 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
  62. Does institutional failure undermine the physical design performance of solar water pumping systems in rural Nepal?, Sustainability (Switzerland), 8(8), 20160809
  63. 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
  64. 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
  65. 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
  66. Recent Political Change in Myanmar and Its Impact on her Economic Growth, ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 32(1), 39-54, 2018
  67. 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
  68. 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
  69. Airline market structure and airport efficiency: Evidence from major Northeast Asian airports, JOURNAL OF AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT, 33, 32-42, 2013
  70. Productivity growth and biased technological change in Japanese airports, TRANSPORT POLICY, 17(4), 259-265, 2010
  71. TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY, REGULATION AND HETEROGENEITY IN JAPANESE AIRPORTS, PACIFIC ECONOMIC REVIEW, 15(5), 685-696, 2010
  72. Comparative Analysis of Efficiency for Major Northeast Asia Airports, TRANSPORTATION JOURNAL, 49(4), 9-23, 2010
  73. 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
  74. 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
  75. 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
  76. Heterogeneity on the technical efficiency in Japanese airports, Singapore Economic Review, 56(4), 523-534, 20111201
  77. 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
  78. Mining-induced displacement and resettlement in Afghanistan's Aynak mining community: Exploring the right to fair compensation, Resources Policy, 74, 2021