Professor and Vice President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Areas of Special Interest: Urban Economics, Public Economics, Transportation Economics
Early work was concentrated on theoretical developments in urban
economics. Contributions on urban economics are concerned with
second best land use in the presence of unpriced congestion, optimal
city size, and urban dynamics. I have since worked on a variety
of fields such as optimal discount rates in the presence of asymmetric
information in the credit market, labor contracts with unverifiable
firm-specific human capital, regulation of the urban railway
industry, and electric power market.
New Publications
Kanemoto, Y., "Second-best cost-benefit analysis in monopolistic competition models of urban agglomeration," Journal of Urban Economics, Available online 26 March 2013. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2013.03.00)
Kanemoto, Y., "Evaluating benefits of transportation in models of new economic geography," Economics of Transportation, Available online 21 December 2012. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2012.11.003)
Kanemoto, Y., (2011), "Surplus Theory," A Handbook of Transport Economics, Edited by A. de Palma, R. Lindsey, E. Quinet, and R. Vickerman, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham Glos, UK, 479 - 499.
Discussion Papers
Kanemoto, Y., "Cost-Benefit Analysis in Monopolistic Competition Models of Urban Agglomeration," GRIPS Discussion Paper 12-04, (2012).
Kanemoto, Y., "Second-Best Cost-Benefit Analysis in Monopolistic Competition Models of Urban Agglomeration," GRIPS Discussion Paper 11-21, (2012).
Kanemoto, Y., "Second-Best Cost-Benefit Analysis with a Microfoundation of Urban Agglomeration" GRIPS Discussion Paper 11-03, (2011).
The Henry George Theorem in A Second-Best World by Kristian Behrens, Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, and Yasusada Murata, CIRJE Discussion Papers CIRJE-F-773, (2010)
Urban Employment Area (2004.01.28): Metropolitan Area Data for Japanese Cities
C.V. (As of Marchl 6th, 2012)
Digital Reprint of Theories of Urban Externalities, 1980 (Updated: 2001.9.19)