Akihiko Kawaura

Professor, Graduate School of Policy and Management / Department 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 / Department of Policy Studies, Doshisha University
  (sabbatical) April 2010 - March 2011: Visiting Research Professor, University of Hawaii
• 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

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

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

• "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. (abstract)

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

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

• "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. (abstract)

• "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. (abstract)

3: Other Publications

• "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.

• "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.

• "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. (download)

• "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. (abstract/download)

• "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. (book contents)

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

• "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. (abstract/download)

• "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.