Curriculum Vitae

Nobuhiro HOSOE

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Born in 1972

[Fields of Study]

Computational Economics:

Computable/Applied General Equilibrium (CGE/AGE) Models,
Spatial and Temporal Price and Allocation (STPA) Models, and
other Macro-economic Models.

[Degrees]

B. A. (Economics) at Faculty of Economics, Osaka University
M. A. (Economics) at Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
Ph. D. (Economics) at Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University

[Educational Experiences]

1991-1995	Faculty of Economics, Osaka University (B. A. in Economics.)
1995-1999	Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (M. A. and Ph. D. in Economics.)

[Job Experiences]

1995	Projects Assistant, Middle East and North Africa Region Department II, the World Bank. (Research about Jordan's Trade Liberalization Policies.)
1997-1999	Research Fellow, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
1998	Mission Member of Japan International Cooperation Agency (Research about Mongolian Mid-term Macroeconomic Projection)
1999-	Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
1999-2001	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Policy Science, Saitama University.
2002	Visiting Fellow, Economic Growth Center, Yale University
2004-2006	Visiting Researcher, Institute for Transport Policy Studies
2011-	Deputy Director, Public Policy Program, GRIPS

[Others]

1998-	Member of the Japanese Economic Association
2006-	Member of Applied Regional Science Conference

[Publication]

-Published

Akiyama, S., and Hosoe, N. (forthcoming) "A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Japan's Electric Power Network," Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies.
Tanaka, T., Hosoe, N. (2011) "Does Agricultural Trade Liberalization Increase Risks of Supply-side Uncertainty?: Effects of Productivity Shocks and Export Restrictions on Welfare and Food Supply in Japan," Food Policy 36(3): 368-377.
Hosoe, N., Gasawa, K., Hashimoto, H. (2010) Textbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modelling: Programming and Simulations, Palgrave Macmillan.
Hosoe, N., Akiyama, S. (2009) "Regional Electric Power Demand Elasticities of Japan's Industrial and Commercial Sectors," Energy Policy 37(11): 4313-4319.
Hosoe, N. (2009) "Impact Analysis of Entry Barriers upon the Coastal Freight Service," Keizai Bunseki (Economic Analysis) 182: 94-106. (in Japanese)
Takagi, S., Hosoe, N. (2009) "Kouri-denryoku-nyusatsu-ni-okeru Ousatsu-ishi-kettei-to Jiyuka-no Kyoso-sokushin-koka (Effects of Competition with Endogenous Entry Decision on the Retail Power Market–– An Auction Data Analysis)," Nihon Keizai Kenkyu (JCER Economic Journal) 61: 1-26. (in Japanese)
Akiyama, S., Hosoe, N. (2008) "Regional Electric Power Demand in Japan [Denryoku juyokansu no chiiki-betsu suitei]," Shakai-keizai-kenkyu 56: 49-58 .
Koike, A., Hosoe, N., Shimomura, K., Katayama, S. (2007) "Monopolistic Competition and the Impacts of Disaster: an SCGE Analysis," Kokumin-keizai Zasshi [Journal of Political Economy and Commercial Science] 196 (4): 1-18. (in Japanese)
Hosoe, N., Akiyama, S. (2007) "Soden-ryokin-kaikaku-no-keizai-kokabunseki ---Pankeki-houshiki-kara Yubin-kitte-houshiki-e (Quantifying Transmission Charge Reform ---from Pancake Pricing to Postage Stamp Pricing---)," in: Hatta, T. and Tanaka, M. (eds.) Kisei-kaikaku-no Keizai-bunseki: Den-ryoku-jiyuka-no Kesu-sutadi (Economic Analysis of Regulatory Reforms: Case Studies for Deregulation in Power Industry), Nikkei Publishing, Ch. 2: 75-99. (in Japanese)
Hosoe, N. (2006) "The Deregulation of Japan's Electricity Industry," Japan and the World Economy 18(2): 230-246. (Annex on model structure).
Hosoe, N. (2006) "A Regulatory Impact Analysis of Coastal Shipping Service," Transport Policy Studies' Review 8(4) (Abstract of the 18th Research Report Seminar, Institute for Transport Policy Studies): 53-55.
Hosoe, N. (2005) "Open Seminar: Computable General Equilibrium Models for Economic Policy Analysis," Transport Policy Studies' Review 8 (3): 74-75 (in Japanese).
Sakurai, K., Hosoe, N. (2005) "Is the Hokkaido tourism promotion plan just a trial balloon?," Transport Policy Studies' Review 8 (1): 2-10. (in Japanese)
Hosoe, N., Gasawa, K., Hashimoto, H. (2004) Textbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling: Programming and Simulations, University of Tokyo Press. (in Japanese)
Hosoe, N. (2004) "Crop Failure, Price Regulation, and Emergency Imports of Japan's Rice Sector in 1993," Applied Economics 36 (10): 1051-1056. (Annex on sensitivity analysis)
Hosoe, N. (2001) "A General Equilibrium Analysis of Jordan's Trade Liberalization," Journal of Policy Modeling 23 (6): 595-600. (and its technical memorandum.)
Hosoe, N. (2000) "Dependency of Simulation Results on the Choice of Numeraire," Applied Economics Letters 7 (7): 475-477.
Hosoe, N. (1999) Opening up the Black Box: Scrutinization of the Internal Structure of Computable General Equilibrium Models, A Ph. D. Dissertation, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University. (Its contents are: Hosoe (2000), Hosoe (2001), Hosoe (2004).)

-Papers presented at conferences

Takagi, S., Hosoe, N. (2011) "A Structural Approach to the Bidding Behavior in the Retail Power Market-A Structural Auction Data Analysis," presented at Japanese Economic Association 2011 Fall Meeting, Tsukuba University, October 29-30.
Tanaka, T., Hosoe, N. (2009) "Productivity Shock and National Food Security for Japan," Integration of Spatial Computable General Equilibrium and Transport Modelling, Bilateral Joint Seminar under agreement between NWO and JSPS, University of Tokyo, August 19-20.
Takagi, S., Hosoe, N. (2007) "Measuring Effects of Competition Promoted by Deregulation in Japan's Electric Power Retailing Markets," presented at Japanese Economic Association 2007 Fall Meeting, Nihon University, September 23-24.
Tanaka, T., Hosoe, N. (2007) "Productivity Shock and National Food Security for Japan," presented at Applied Regional Science Conference 2007 Meeting, Tottori University, December 8-9.
___ (2007) "___," presented at Japanese Economic Association 2007 Fall Meeting, Nihon University, September 23-24.
Hosoe, N., Akiyama, S. (2007) "Transmission Charge Reform of Power Industry Considering Variable Load Size," presented at The 22nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXII), University of Economics Prague, July 8-11.
Tanaka, T., Hosoe, N. (2007) "Productivity Shock and National Food Security for Japan," The Tenth Anniversary Conference in Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University, June 7-9.
Hosoe, N. (2006) "A Regulatory Impact Analysis in the Coastal Freight Service," Japanese Economic Association 2006 Spring Meeting, Fukushima University, June 3-4.
Akiyama, S., Hosoe, N. (2006) "A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Transmission Charge Reform in Japan's Electric Power Industry," presented at EURO XXI, University of Iceland, July 2-5.
___ (2005) "___," in: Zhang, X., D. Liu, L. Wu (eds.) Operations Research and Its Applications, The 5th International Symposium on Operations Research and Its Applications, ISORA'05, Tibet, China, August 8-13, Proceedings: 92-107.
___ (2002) "A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of the Regulatory Reform in the Japan's Electric Power Industry," Applied Regional Science Conference Annual Meeting, Department of Economics, Okayama University, December 1, 2002.
___ (2002) ___, Workshop on Spatial and Public Economics, Center for Spatial Information Science University of Tokyo, November 23.
___ (2001) ___, presented at the Autumn Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association 2001, Session: Economic Analysis of Infrastructure II, held in Hitotsubashi University, October 8, 2002.
Hosoe, N. (2000) "Deregulation of the Japanese Electric Power Industry," presented at the Autumn Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association 2000, Session: Economic Analysis of Public Goods and Infrastructure, held in Osaka Prefecture University, September.
Hosoe, N. (1998) "Japan's Optimal Tariff Policy in Response to the US Anti-dumping Tariffs," presented with a title "Japan's Best Responses to the US Foreign Trade Policy," at the 1998 Spring Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association, held in Aoyama Gakuin University, June.
Hosoe, N. (1997) "A General Equilibrium Analysis of Jordan's Trade Liberalization," presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Japan Association of Economics and Econometrics, held in Waseda University, September.

-Other Presentations

Hosoe, N. (2011) "The Impact of Installation of New Power Plants as a substitute of the Nuclear Power Plants," RIETI Seminar, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, December 13.
Hosoe, N. (2011) "A New 9-Region eSTPA Model Analysis," Japan-China Joint Environmental Research Seminar, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, December 1.
Hosoe, N., Tanaka, M. (2011) "A Cash-out Scheme for TEPCO’s Reparation for the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Accident and its Resulting Unbundling," Electirc Power System Restructuring Seminar, GRIPS, October 7.
Takagi, S., Hosoe, N. (2011) "Entry and Asymmetricity in Procurement Auctions for Electricity: A Structural Estimation Approach," Policy Modeling Workshop, GRIPS, July 9.
Takagi, S., Hosoe, N. (2011) "Entry and Asymmetricity in Procurement Auctions for Electricity: A Structural Estimation Approach," Economic Theory and Econometrics Semiar, School of Economics, Osaka Prefecture University, March 10.
Takagi, S., Hosoe, N. (2008) "Impacts of Deregulation on Competitive Bidding for Electric Power Public Procurement," Economic Theory and Econometrics Semiar, School of Economics, Osaka Prefecture University, March 13.
Tanaka, T., Hosoe, N. (2008) "Productivity Shock and National Food Security for Japan," Seminar in Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya Unversity, March 1.
___ (2007) "___," Applied Agricultural Economics Seminar, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, September 13.
Hosoe, N. (2006) "National Food Security for Japan --- CGE Analysis," Economics Seminar, University of Toyama, September 6.
Hosoe, N. (2005) "A Regulatory Impact Analysis in the Coastal Freight Service,"ITPU Workshop, University of Tokyo, February 10.
___ (2005) "___," Institute for Transport Policy Studies the 18th Research Report Seminar, Kaiun-Club, November 29.
___ (2005) ___, Policy Modeling Workshop, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studeis, November 19.
___ (2005) ___, Faculty of Economics, Kinki Univ., November 16.
Hosoe, N. (2005) "Computable General Equilibrium Models for Economic Policy Analysis," Institute for Transport Policy Studies, Open Seminar: Economics Equilibrium Modeling of Public Investment Programs ---Evaluating Regional Development---, Toranomon Pastoral, September 13.
Hosoe, N. (2005) "Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Regulatory Reform in Japan's Electric Power Industry," ___.
Tanaka, M., Hosoe, N. (2005) "On a Transmission Charge Reform --- An Electricity Spatial Equilibrium Analysis ---," An Interim Report on Guidelines of Regulatory Impact Analysis (Electric Power Market Working Group's Report), September 26. (in Japanese)

-Working Papers

Tanaka, T., Hosoe, N. (2011) "What Drove the Crop Price Hikes in the Food Crisis?," GRIPS Discussion Paper 11-16.
Hosoe, N. (2011) "An Input-output Analysis of Impact of Voluntary Self-restraint on the Recreation Industries," GRIPS Discussion Paper 11-04. (in Japanese)
Hosoe, N., Tanaka, M. (2011) "A Cash-out Scheme for TEPCO’s Reparation for the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Accident and its Resulting Unbundling," GRIPS Discussion Paper 11-02 [revised on August 9, 2011]. (in Japanese)
Hosoe, N., Takagi, S. (2011) "Retail Power Market Competition with Endogenous Entry Decision-An Auction Data Analysis," GRIPS Discussion Paper 11-01.
Hashimoto, H., Hamada, K., Hosoe, N. (2011) "Contract Theory: A Programming-Model Approach," GRIPS Discussion Paper 10-34. (with Sample Models)
Tanaka, T., Hosoe, N. (2009) "Kome-no Seisansei-shokku-o Koryo-shita Nihon-no Shokuryo-anzen-hosho-no Simyureshon-bunseki," RIETI Discussion Paper Series 09-J-009, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. (in Japanese; its English version is available here.)
Tanaka, T., Hosoe, N. (2009) "Productivity Shocks and National Food Security for Japan," RIETI Discussion Paper Series 09-E-004, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Hosoe, N. (2008) "Naiko-kamotsu-yuso-ni-okeru San-nyu-kisei-no Eikyo-bunseki (Impact of An Entry Regulation on the Coastal Freight Service)," GRIPS Discussion Paper No. 08-12. (in Japanese)
Hosoe, N., Akiyama, S. (2008) "Regional Electric Power Demand in Japan," RIETI Discussion Paper Series 08-E-005, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Takagi, S., Hosoe, N. (2008) "Measuring Effects of Competition on Retail Power Charges in Public Procurement Bidding," RIETI Discussion Paper Series 08-J-004, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.(in Japanese)
Mochizuki, T., Hosoe, N. (2007)"Risaikuru-seisaku no Keizai-hyoka ni tsuite---Ippan-haikibutsu Semento Shigenka no Hiyo-beneki Bunseki," [Economic Evaluation of Recycling---Cost-benefit Analysis of Projects to Recycle Waste ncineration Ash for Cement Production---], GRIPS Discussion Paper No. 07-02, GRIPS. (in Japanese)
Akiyama, S., Hosoe, N. (2007) "Regional Electric Power Demand in Japan," [Denryoku juyokansu no chiiki-betsu suitei], RIETI Discussion Paper Series 07-J-028, Reseach Institute of Econom, Trade and Industry. (in Japanese)
Akiyama, S., Hosoe, N. (2006) "A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Transmission Charge Reform in Japan's Electric Power Industry," RIETI Discussion Paper Series 06-E-022, Reseach Institute of Econom, Trade and Industry.
Akiyama, S., Hosoe, N. (2003) "A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Regulatory Reform in Japan's Electric Power Industry," May 15, GRIPS Research Report Series I-2003-0001.

-Others

Hosoe, N. (2009) "Book Review: Tokunaga, S., et al. (2008) Economic Model Analysis of Environmental Policies," Journal of Applied Regional Science 14: 81-83. (in Japanese)

[Awards and Research Funds]

-as a Project Leader

(Dec. 2011-Dec. 2013) Nomura Foundation Social Science Grant, "Reconstruction of the Marine Products Industry and Fishing Rights Reform after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake".
(FY2009-2012) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), "Macroeconomic Analysis under Various Risk Factors".
(FY2005-2007) Institute for Transport Policy Studies, "Regulatory Reform Policy Study in Coastal Shipping Sector."
(FY2005-2007) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), "Policy Simulation Analysis with Macroeconomic Models Considering Uncertanty".
(FY2002-2004) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), "Macro-economic Modeling of Regulatory Reforms in Electric Power Industry and Policies to Prevent Global Warming".
(FY2001) Japan Productivity Center for Socio-economic Development (Research Funds for Energy, Nuclear Power Issues, and their Impacts on Society), "A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of the Regulatory Reform in the Japan's Electric Power Industry" (with Shu-ichi Akiyama).
(FY1997-1998) (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Research Fellows, "A General Equilibrium Analysis of Debt Management and Foreign Aids on the Jordanian Economy".

-as a Co-project Leader

(FY2011-2012) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, "Empirical Analysis of Vertically-integrated Oligopolistic Electric Power Markets," Leader: Ryosuke Okamoto (GRIPS).
(FY2009-2010) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, "Microeconometric Analysis with Auction Data," Leader: Ryosuke Okamoto (GRIPS).
(FY2009-2012) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), "Micro- and Macroeconomic impact of Pro-patent Policy," Leader: Kaori Hatanaka (GRIPS).
(FY2008-2011) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), "Interaction between Transportation Network Development and Management, and Urban Agglomeration," Leader: Ryousuke Okamoto (GRIPS).
(FY2008-2009) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, "Mechanism Design Considering Agents’ Heterogeneity in Organizations," Leader: Kaori Hatanaka (GRIPS).
(FY2006) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), "Toward Sustainable Improvement in Wuality of Life: Theory and Statistics," Leader: Ken-ichi Shimomura (Kobe University).
(FY2005-2007) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, "Multilateral Policy Concensus under Distorted Incentive Mechanism in Domestic Organizations," Leader: Reiko Kumagai (Tezukayama Unviersity).
(FY2005-2007) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), "Urban and Spatial Analysis with Complex Externalities," Leader: Ryousuke Okamoto (GRIPS).

-Study-abroad Scholarships

(FY2001) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Sholarship for Foreign Research and Development.

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