YOSHIDA, Yuichiro

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  • Position:
    Associate Professor
  • Degree:
    Ph.D. (Economics), Boston College
  Specialty:
  Transportation Economics, Applied Econometrics, Microeconomic Theory and Modeling
• Current Research Interests:
  Second-best pricing and capacity policy of a highway; Modeling of strategic behaviors in multilateral air-service agreements; Productivity measurement and benchmarking of decision making units in aviation industry
• Professional Career:

  1999-2000	Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, Boston College
  2001	Ph.D. (Economics), Boston College
  2001	Assistant Professor, International Development Program, Graduate School of International Relations, International University of Japan
  2005	Associate Professor, GRIPS

• Selected publications:
  Tae H. Oum, Somchai Pathomsiri, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Social Efficiency Measurement and Comparison of Airlines and Railway Companies in Japan's Domestic Intercity Travel Market," Chapter 4 in Climate Change and Transport Strategy, Pergamon Press for Elsevier, forthcoming.
  
  Carlos Pestana Barros, Shunsuke Managi, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Heterogeneity on the Technical Efficiency in Japanese Airports," Singapore Economic Review Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 523-34, December 2011.
  
  Ha, H. K., M. Yamamoto, Y. Yoshida, and A. Zhang, 2011, "Underestimation of Inefficiency in Social Efficiency Benchmarking with Non-Parametric Methods of Production Technology Identification: A Note," GRIPS Discussion Papers, No.11-15.
  
  Y. Yoshida, "Pricing, Capacity, and Construction Boundary of a Congestible Highway with an Elastic Demand: Social Optimum, Second Best, Privatization, and Vertical Disintegration," Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 401-24, September 2011.
  
  Ha, H. K., Y. Yoshida, and A. Zhang, "Social efficiency benchmarking of Japanese domestic transport services: a comparison of rail and air," Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 16, Issue 7, pp. 554-61, October 2011.
  
  Daisuke Ichinose, Masashi Yamamoto, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "The Decoupling of Affluence and Waste Discharge under Spatial Correlation: Do Richer Communities Discharge More Waste?" GRIPS Discussion Papers Report No. 11-07, GRIPS Research Center, July 2011.
  
  Hirofumi Fukuyama, Shunsuke Managi, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Modal Choice between Air and Rail: Approach from Social Efficiency Benchmarking considering CO2 Emissions," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Vol. 13, pp.89-102, 2011.
  
  Tae Hoon Oum, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Efficiency Measurement Theory and its Application to Airport Benchmarking," Chapter 13 in A Handbook of Transport Economics edited by André de Palma, Robin Lindsey, Emile Quinet, and Roger Vickerman, Edward Elgar Publishing, October 2011.
  
  Daisuke Ichinose, Masashi Yamamoto, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Reexamining the waste-income relationship," GRIPS Discussion Papers Report No. 10-31, GRIPS Research Center, Jan. 2011.
  
  Carlos Pestana Barros, Shunsuke Managi, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Technical Efficiency, Regulation, and Heterogeneity in Japanese Airports," Pacific Economic Review, Volume 15, Issue 5, December 2010, pp. 685–96.
  
  Ha, Hun Koo, Yuichiro Yoshida, and Anming Zhang, "Comparative Analysis of Efficiency for Major Northeast Asia Airports," Transportation Journal (IFSPA Special issue), The American Society of Transportation and Logistics, Fall 2010, pp. 9-23.
  
  Carlos Pestana Barros, Shunsuke Managi, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Productivity Growth and Biased Technological Change in Japanese Airports," Transport Policy, Vol. 17, Issue 4, Aug. 2010, pp. 259-65.
  
  Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Masashi Yamamoto, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Dynamic and static productivity measurements of Japanese airlines: can they really compete through the liberalization in Asian aviation industry?" Far Eastern Studies, Vol. 10, 2010.
  
  Miki Tsutsui, Kaoru Tone, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Technical efficiency based on cost gradient measure," GRIPS Discussion Papers Report No. 09-14, GRIPS Policy Information Center, Oct. 2009.
  
  Yuichiro Yoshida, "Commuter Arrivals and Optimal Service in Mass Transit: Does Queuing Behavior at Transit Stops Matter?" Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 38, Issue 3, May 2008, pp. 228-51.
  
  Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Masashi Yamamoto, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Efficiency and stability of an open sky network," GRIPS Discussion Papers Report No. 07-14, GRIPS Policy Information Center, Feb. 2008.
  
  Yuichiro Yoshida, "Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Socially Optimal Pricing and Capacity of a Congestible Highway with an Elastic Demand," Annual Report on Transportation Economics, Japan Society of Transportation Economics, 2004, pp. 191-8.
  
  Yuichiro Yoshida and Hiroyoshi Fujimoto, "Japanese-airport benchmarking with the DEA and endogenous-weight TFP methods: testing the criticism of over investment in Japanese regional airports," Transportation Research Part E, Vol. 40, issue 6, 2004.
  
  Yuichiro Yoshida, "Endogenous-weight TFP measurement: methodology and its application to Japanese-airport benchmarking," Transportation Research Part E 40, 2004.
  
  Airport Benchmarking Task Force, ATRS Airport Benchmarking Report, Air Transport Research Society, Centre for Transportation Studies, University of British Columbia, 2002.
  
  Yuichiro Yoshida, "Optimal Transportation Network with Discrete Entry Points in a Monocentric City," International Development Series, International University of Japan, December, 2002
  
  Tae H. Oum, Hajime Inamura, Tae-Seung Kim, and Yuichiro Yoshida, "Transport Demand and Costs and Infrastructure Capacity in the North East Asia - Current Status and Forecasts: The Case of Japan," Northeast Asian Economic Forum Conference proceedings , December, 2002
  
  Marvin Kraus and Yuichiro Yoshida, "The Commuter's Time-of-Use Decision and Optimal Pricing and Service in Urban Mass Transit," Journal of Urban Economics Volume 51, Issue 1, 2002, pp. 170-95.
  
  T. H. Oum, J. deWit, and Y. Yoshida, "Developments in the Deregulated Air Transport Market," Journal of Air Transport Management Vol.7 No.5, 2001, p.263-4.
  
  
  Working Papers
  "Two Externalities in the Two-Mode Problem: a Combined Analysis of Traffic Congestion and Environmental Pollution of Auto Transport with User Heterogeneity in terms of Fuel Efficiency," with Masashi Yamamoto, mimeo.
  
  "Slacks-based Inefficiency: An Application to Japanese Airports," with Carlos Pestana Barros, Hirofumi Fukuyama, and Shunsuke Managi, mimeo.
  
  Honors and Awards
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Grant number: 21730224, 2009-2011
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Grant number: 18730161, 2006-2008
  H. Michael Mann Dissertation Fellowship, 1999
  Pass with Distinction, Comprehensive Exams in Micro and Macroeconomics, 1997
  Boston College Fellowship, 1997 to 2001