HIDE-FUMI YOKOO
January 2015
International Material Cycles Research Section
Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management Research
The National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
Contact Information:
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, JAPAN
E-Mail: yokoo.hidefumi [at] nies.go.jp
Website: http://www.k-uni.jp/yokoo.html
Academic positions:
2014-Present
Researcher at the National Institute for Environmental
Studies (NIES), Japan
2014-Present
Research Associate at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and
Industry, Japan
2012-2014
Assistant Professor (a non-tenure track appointment) at the
Department of International Studies, The University of Tokyo
2012-2013
Visiting Researcher at the NIES
2011-2012
Research Associate at the NIES
2010-2011
Postdoctoral Fellow at the NIES
2008-2010
Research Fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS)
Education:
2010 Ph. D.
Economics, Kyoto University
2007 M.A.
Economics, Kyoto University
2005 B. A.
Economics, Kyoto University
Visiting Experience:
2009 (Dec.) -2010 (Mar.)
Tilburg University (visiting researcher)
Research interests:
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
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International Trade and the Environment
Development and the Environment
Teaching interests:
Microeconomics
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Publications:
Hide-Fumi Yokoo (2014) “International aspects of waste management: The waste
haven effect on global reuse,” in Handbook on Waste Management, Thomas C.
Kinnaman and Kenji Takeuchi (eds.), Edward Elgar, Ch.8, pp. 216-237.
Hide-Fumi Yokoo and Thomas C. Kinnaman (2013) “Global reuse and optimal waste
policy,” Environment and Development Economics, 18(5), pp. 595-614.
Thomas C. Kinnaman and Hide-Fumi Yokoo (2011) “The environmental consequences of
global reuse,” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 101(3), pp. 71-76.
Hide-Fumi Yokoo (2010) “An economic theory of reuse,” Sustainability Science, 5(1),
pp. 143-150.
Discussion Paper:
Hide-Fumi Yokoo (2009) “Heterogeneous Firms, the Porter Hypothesis and Trade,”
KSI-Communications DP, 2009-001.
Works in progress:
“Panel Data Analysis of Paper and Paperboard Demand Focusing on Differences in Use”
(with Chihiro Kayo, Seiji Hashimoto, Yuichi Moriguchi and Hiroyasu Oka)
“How to promote a job change of dumpsite waste pickers? Evidence from a field
experiment in the Philippines” (with Maki Ikuse, Aries Roda D. Romallosa and
Masahide Horita)
Conference Presentations:
2015
Hayami Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
2014
Annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy
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Studies (SEEPS), Tokyo, Japan.
World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Istanbul,
Turkey.
2012
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) 2nd
Annual Summer Conference, Asheville, North Carolina.
2011
Annual meeting of the SEEPS, Nagasaki, Japan.
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
(EAERE) 18th Annual Conference, Pre-Conference on Waste Economics,
Rome, Italy.
EEPSEA-EAAERE Joint Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam.
2010
ISIE MFA-ConAccount Meeting, Tokyo, Japan.
Annual meeting of the SEEPS, Nagoya, Japan.
The 1st Congress of EAAERE, Sapporo, Japan.
2009
Semiannual meeting of the Japanese Economic Association (JEA), Tokyo
Japan.
Annual meeting of the SEEPS, Chiba, Japan.
Conference on the Economics of Waste and the Environment, Fukushima,
Japan.
Semiannual meeting of the JEA, Kyoto, Japan.
2008
The 37th Australian Conference of Economists, Gold Coast, Australia.
Semiannual meeting of the JEA, Osaka, Japan.
Annual meeting of the SEEPS, Osaka, Japan.
2007
Annual meeting of the SEEPS, Shiga, Japan.
Seminar Presentations:
2014
Kobe University, Hiroshima University, The University of Tokyo
2011
Kyoto University
2010
Tilburg University
2009
Kobe University, Kyoto University (twice)
Teaching Experiences:
2014
Guest lecturer, “The economics of waste management,” Liberal Arts
Program, the University of Tokyo
Guest lecturer, “The economics of waste management and international
recycling of resources,” jointly provided by Nanjing University and the
University of Tokyo
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Spring semester: “Introduction to Statistics and Quantitative Analysis,” MSc
International Studies, the University of Tokyo
2013
Guest lecturer, Environmental Resource Management and Technologies
major in Solid Waste Management (ERMAT-SWM), jointly provided by
College of Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Sciences (CARES),
Central Philippine University (CPU) and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
Spring semester: “Introduction to Statistics and Quantitative Analysis,” MSc
International Studies, the University of Tokyo
2012
Spring semester: “Field Work and Formation of Hypothesis,” MSc
International Studies, the University of Tokyo
2011
Lecturer, Training course on Asian Network for Young Researchers on
Sustainable Landfill Management (AN-YRSLM), NIES
2010
Teaching Assistant, Seminar Environmental Economics, MSc Economics,
Tilburg University (Prof. Daan van Soest)
2007
Teaching Assistant, Environmental Economics, MSc Economics, Kyoto
University (Prof. Kazuhiro Ueta)
Professional Activities:
Referees for the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Canadian Journal of
Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Environmental Economics
and Policy Studies, Environmental and Resource Economics, Resource and Energy
Economics, Economic Record, Sustainability Science, and Waste Management.
Grants:
2014-2017
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), JSPS.
2013-2014
Grant for Environmental Research Projects from the Sumitomo
Foundation. A collaborator. PI: Masahide Horita (The University of
Tokyo)
2011-2012
Grant for Environmental Research Projects from the Sumitomo
Foundation
2010-2012
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS. A collaborator. PI: Kenji
Takeuchi (Kobe University)
2009-2010
Excellent Young Researchers Overseas Visit Program, JSPS
2008-2010
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
2007
Research Grant, 21st COE IAEA, Kyoto University
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References:
Kazuhiro Ueta
Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University
Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, JAPAN
[email protected]
Thomas C. Kinnaman
Department of Economics, Bucknell University
340 St. Catherine St, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
[email protected]
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