Akihiko Kawaura

Professor, Graduate School of Policy and Management / Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University

E-Mail: akawaura"AT"mail.doshisha.ac.jp (Please replace "AT" with @.)

1: Education and Professional Experiences

（Education)

• 1989 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Hawaii
• 1983 M.A. in Development Economics, University of Sussex
• 1982 B.A. in Economics, Nagoya University

（Professional Career）

• April 2005 - present: Graduate School of Policy and Management / Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University
  (sabbatical) April 2010 - March 2011: Visiting Research Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• April 1995 - March 2005: Department of Economics, Otaru University of Commerce
  (sabbatical) Oct. 2003 - Sept. 2004: Asian Public Intellectuals Program Visiting Researcher, Chulalongkorn University
  (sabbatical) Sept. 1999 - Aug. 2000: Fulbright Program Visiting Scholar, George Washington University
• October 1991 - March 1995: World Bank
• October 1989 - September 1991: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
• April 1984 - June 1985: Nippon Steel Corporation

2: Publications in Academic Journals

• "Deeds, not words? Speech and re-election of Japan's local legislators" (with Y. Kimura and Y. Uchida) Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 35, Issue, 1, March 2024, pp. 123-140. (DOI)

• "Generals in defense of allocation: Coups and military budgets in Thailand" Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 58, Issue C, October 2018, pp. 72-78. (DOI)

• "Integration of North and South American players in Japan's professional baseball leagues" (with S.J. La Croix) International Economic Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, August 2016, pp. 1107-1130. (DOI)

• "A tale of two duopolies: Collusion and exit in a local airline industry" Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 22, No. 8, June 2015, pp. 664-667. (DOI)

• "Legislator incentives in a fragile democracy: Evidence from budget allocation in Thailand" Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 29, No. 3, July 2011, pp. 407-415. (DOI)

• "Designated hitter rule debate: A search for Mr. Hyde in pitchers" Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 11, No. 3, June 2010, pp. 349-357. (DOI)

• "The designated hitter rule and team defensive strategy in Japan's professional baseball leagues" (with S.J. La Croix) Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 8, No. 5, October 2007, pp. 491-504. (DOI)

• "Deregulation and governance: Plight of Japanese banks in the 1990s" Applied Economics, Vol. 36, No. 5, March 2004, pp. 479-484. (DOI)

• "Public resource allocation and electoral systems in the U.S. and Japan" Public Choice, Vol. 115, No. 1-2, April 2003, pp. 63-81. (DOI)

• "Rule changes and competitive balance in Japanese professional baseball" (with S.J. La Croix) Economic Inquiry, Vol. 37, No.2, April 1999, pp. 353-368. (DOI)

• "Product patent reform and its impact on Korea's pharmaceutical industry" (with S.J. La Croix) International Economic Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 109-124. (abstract)

• "Japan's shift from process to product patents in the pharmaceutical industry: An event study of the impact on Japanese firms" (with S.J. La Croix) Economic Inquiry, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 1995, pp. 88-103. (DOI)

3: Other Publications

• "What affects women's happiness in India?" (with K. Takimoto), in Kazuo Mino and Tadashi Yagi (Eds.) Cultural Basis of Economic Growth in India, Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 133-149.

• "Legislative participation and re-election of Otaru City Assembly members" (with Y. Kimura) Doshisha University Center for the Study of the Creative Economy Discussion Paper Series 2022-01、April 2022.

• "Is silence golden? Evidence from re-election of Japan's prefectural assembly members" (with Y. Kimura and Y. Uchida) Doshisha University Center for the Study of the Creative Economy Discussion Paper Series 2019-01、March 2020. (download)

• "Incomplete contracting, league governance, and the role of the commissioner in Japanese and North American professional baseball" (with S.J. La Croix), in John Wilson and Richard Pomfret (Eds.) Historical Perspectives on Sports Economics, Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 91-108. (book contents)

• "Elected officials in the local assembly: Analysis of prefectural plenary session transcripts" (with Y. Kimura, K. Takamaru and Y. Uchida) Doshisha University Center for the Study of the Creative Economy Discussion Paper Series 2018-02、March 2018. (download)

• "Tourism development of Hua Hin: A beach resort with a royal brand" (with Suphat Saquandeekul) Doshisha Policy and Management Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, March 2018, pp. 25-31.

• "Generals in defense of allocation: Coups and military budget in Thailand" Doshisha University Center for the Study of the Creative Economy Discussion Paper Series 2017-01、April 2017. (download)

• "The very short tenure of foreign players in Japanese professional baseball, 1951-2004" (with S.J. La Croix), in Richard Pomfret and John Wilson (Eds.) Sports Through the Lens of Economic History, Edward Elgar, 2016, pp. 30-54. (book contents)

• "Mayor term as a determinant of municipality budget"Doshisha Policy and Management Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, September 2012, pp. 33-37.

• "Integration of North and South American players in Japan's professional baseball leagues" (with S.J. La Croix) University of Hawaii Department of Economics Working Paper 11-14, October 2011. (download)

• "Corporate failure, supply shock and government bailouts: A case study of Aloha Airlines" University of Hawaii Department of Economics Working Paper 11-3, March 2011. (download)

• "Local government consolidations in Hokkaido: Elected officials as an obstacle"Doshisha Policy and Management Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, March 2011, pp. 1-7.

• "R&D management in Japanese manufacturing firms: Technology trade, R&D outsourcing and joint R&D" (with Dai Miyamoto), in Y. Nakata and H. Miyoshi (Eds.) Have Japanese Firms Changed? Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2010, pp. 137-160. (book contents)

• "Self-serving mayors and local government consolidations in Japan" University of Hawaii Department of Economics Working Paper 10-14, August 2010. (download)

• "The designated hitter rule in baseball as a natural experiment" (with S.J. La Croix) University of Hawaii Department of Economics Working Paper 10-5, April 2010. (download)

• "Random allocation in the local commons management" Doshisha Policy and Management Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, July 2008, pp. 1-4.

• "Outsourcing of inventive activities in the Japanese manufacturing sector: Analysis of firm-level data" (with D. Miyamoto) Doshisha University Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness Working Paper Series #07-17, September 2007.

• "Globalisation and local banking institutions: The case of Thailand" in Power, Purpose, Process, and Practice in Asia: The Work of the 2003/2004 API Fellows, Tokyo: Nippon Foundation-Asian Public Intellectuals Program, 2006, pp. 68-73.

• "Regional economies and keiretsu groups in Japan"(with S. Harada, S. Miyazaki and T. Sakakura) Doshisha Policy and Management Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, July 2006, pp. 1-10.

• "Institutional change in Japan: Theories, evidence, and reflections" (with S.J. La Croix) in M. Blomstrom and S.J. La Croix (Eds.) Institutional Change in Japan, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 15-44. (description)

• "Problems of the first-to-invent priority rule of the U.S. patent system" Doshisha Policy and Management Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, December 2005, pp. 27-35.

• "Legislative representation and budget allocation in Thailand" Chulalongkorn Economics Research Center Discussion Paper Series #2004-01, July 2004.

• "Baseball in Japan and the United States: Same games, same rules, same results?" (with S.J. La Croix) in R. Fort and J. Fizel (Eds.) International Sports Economics Comparisons, Westport, CT: Praegers Publishers, 2004, pp. 265-279.

• "Monetary policy in Bhutan: Implications of Indian rupee circulation" Otaru University of Commerce Center for Business Creation Discussion Paper Series #77, December 2001.

• "Public resources allocation and election system" Otaru University of Commerce Economic Research Center Discussion Paper Series #52, March 1999.

• "Why do the Japanese get so many pills when they visit the doctor?" (with S.J La Croix) in J. Mak et al. (Eds.) Japan: Why It Works, Why It Doesn't, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997, pp. 131-136. (book contents)

• "Protection of intellectual property rights: Analytical framework of negotiations between industrial and developing countries" Otaru University of Commerce APEC Study Center Discussion Paper Series #5, March 1997.

• "Policy-based finance and financial sector development in Japan" (with D. Vittas) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series #1443, April 1995. (abstract)

• Bhutan: Country Economic Memorandum (with A. Ching et al.) World Bank Report 13495-BHU, November 1994. (document data)

• "Property right regimes in Japanese baseball: A new look at the Rottenberg Invariance Proposition" (with S.J. La Croix) University of Hawaii Department of Economics Working Paper, No 1993-15, 1993.