KIDOKORO, Yukihiro

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  • Position:
    Director of GRIPS Library; Professor
  • Degree:
    Ph.D. (Economics), University of Tokyo
  Specialty:
  Cost-benefit analysis, Transport Economics, Regulatory Economics
• Current Research Interests:
  Discrete choice and consumer behavior, Congestion tax policy
• Professional Career:
  

  1996	Research Associate, Osaka University
  1998	Associate Professor, Saitama University and GRIPS
  1999	Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
  1999	Ph. D. (Economics), University of Tokyo
  2005	Associate Professor, GRIPS
  2008	Professor, GRIPS

• Selected publications:
  Kidokoro, Y., 2010. Revenue-recycling within Transport Networks. Journal of Urban Economics 68, 46-55.
  
  Kidokoro, Y., 2007. A Model of Internet Access when Internet Connection Speed is Upgradable, Information Economics and Policy 19, 80-94.
  
  Kidokoro, Y., 2006. Benefit Estimation of Transport Projects -A Representative Consumer Approach-, Transportation Research B 40, 521-542.
  
  Kidokoro, Y., 2006. Regulatory Reform and the Congestion of Urban Railways, Transportation Research A 40, 52-73.
  
  Kidokoro, Y., 2005. London-type congestion tax with revenue-recycling, Economics Bulletin 18 (1), 1-6.
  
  Kidokoro, Y., 2004. Cost-Benefit Analysis for Transport Networks-Theory and Application-, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 38, 275-307.
  
  Kidokoro, Y., 2003. The Effects of Price Regulation in Contracting out Transport Services, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 37, 111-132.
  
  Kidokoro, Y., 2002. The effects of regulatory reform on quality. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 16, 135-146.
  
  Kidokoro, Y., 1998. Rate-of-return regulation and rate base valuation. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 28, 629-654.
  
  Awards
  2006 Sakashita Prize from the Applied Regional Science Conference
  2002 Best Paper Prize from the Japan Society of Transportation Economics
  
• e-mail: kidokoro