24Faculty ProfilesGraduate School of International RelationsFull-Time Facultyhttp: //gsir.iuj.ac.jp/people/RYUTA RAY KATODean and ProfessorPh.D. in Economics, University of Essex, UK, April 2000Courses:Public Finance, Computable General Equilibrium Modeling,Public Sector EconomicsResearch Interests:An aging population, health related issues, government deficits,issues in public pensionschemes, applications of stochastic processes in economicsMajor Publications:- "Taxation, transfers, and subsidies for medical service sectors and the pharmaceuticalindustry: a computable general equilibrium approach," e Japanese Journal of SocialSecurity Research, forthcoming (2012).- “Health Insurance Reform and Economic Growth: Simulation analysis in Japan,” Japanand the World Economy, Vol. 23 (4) (2011): 227-239, with Toshihiro Ihori, MasumiKawade, and Shun-ichiro Bessho.- "e Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Cambodia," Economics Bulletin, Vol. 30 (3)(2010): 2346-2370, with Pisey Khin.MAKOTO KAKINAKAAssociate Dean, Professor and PMPP DirectorPh.D. in Economics, Cornell University, 2006Courses:Mathematics for Economics and Management, InternationalFinance, Japanese Banking and Financial SystemResearch Interests:International Economics, Banking and Financial Systems, andPublic ChoiceMajor Publications:- "Foreign Direct Investment, Human Capital and Environmental Pollution in China,"Environmental and Resource Economics, 2012, Vol. 51 (2) (2012): 255-275, with Jing Lanand Xianguo Huang.- "An Interplay between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Voluntary Contributions toa Public Good in a Large Economy," Public Choice, Vol. 147 (1-2) (2011): 29-41, with KojiKotani.- "Exchange Rates, Price Levels, and Inflation Targeting: Evidence from Asian Countries,"Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 22 (3) (2010): 173-182, with Weera Prasertnukul andDonghun Kim.KOJI KOTANIProfessor and IDP DirectorPh.D. in Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, 2005Courses:Macroeconomics I, Agricultural Economics, EnvironmentalEconomicsResearch Interests:Environmental economics, agriculture and natural resourcemanagementMajor Publications:- "Climatic impacts on crop yield and its variability in Nepal: Do they vary across seasonsand altitudes?" Climatic Change, with Santosh Poudel, forthcoming.- "e determinants of household energy demand in rural Beijing: Can environmentallyfriendly technologies be effective?" Energy Economics, Vol. 34, No.2 (2012): 381-388, withZhang Jingchao.- "An interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations on voluntary contributions to apublic good in a large economy," Public Choice 147, Vol. 1-2 (2011): 29-41, with MakotoKakinaka.HIROAKI MIYAMOTOProfessorPh.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009Courses:Microeconomics I, Macroeconomics II, Macroeconomics andPolicy AnalysisResearch Interests:Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Japanese EconomyMajor Publications:- "Productivity Growth, On-the-Job Search, and Unemployment,"Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 58 (6-8) (2011): 666-680, with Yuya Takahashi.- "Cyclical Behavior of a Matching Model with Capital Investment," e B.E. Journal ofMacroeconomics, Vol. 11 (1) (Topics), Article 2 (2011).- "Cyclical Behavior of Unemployment and Job Vacancies in Japan," Japan and the WorldEconomy, Vol. 23 (2011): 214-225.MAUNG AUNG MYOEProfessor and IRP DirectorPh.D. in Political Science and International Relations, AustralianNational University, 2000Courses:Foreign Policy Analysis, Security and Strategy in InternationalRelations, Southeast Asian International RelationsResearch Interests:Civil-Military Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Security andStrategy, Myanmar Politics and Foreign RelationsMajor Publications:- In the Name of Pauk-Phaw: Myanmar's China Policy since 1948, Institute of SoutheastAsian Studies, 2011.- Building the Tatmadaw: Myanmar Armed Forces since 1948, Institute of Southeast AsianStudies, 2009.- Neither Friend nor Foe: Myanmar's Relations with ailand since 1988, Institute of Defenseand Strategic Studies, 2002.EIJI MANGYOAssociate Dean and ProfessorPh.D. in Economics, University of Michigan, 2005Courses:Statistics for Economics & Management, Development Economics,Health EconomicsResearch Interests:A broad range of issues in development, especially health issues,intra-household economics,economics of happiness, and applied microeconometricsMajor Publications:- "Relative Deprivation and Health: Which Reference Groups Matter?" Journal of HumanResources, Vol. 46 (3) (2011): 459-481, with Albert Park.- "e Effect of Water Accessibility on Child Health in China," Journal of Health Economics,Vol. 27 (5) (2008): 1343-1356.- "Who Benefits More from Higher Household Consumption? e Intra-householdAllocation of Nutrients in China," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 86 (2) (2008):296-312.TAKAHIRO AKITAProfessorPh.D. in Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1981Courses:Development Planning, Quantitative Methods for DecisionMaking, Inequality and Poverty: Measurement and ApplicationsResearch Interests:Economic development in Asian countries, income inequalityand poverty, regional and urban economic development,environmentally sustainable development, internationalinter-dependence and economic growthMajor Publications:- "Structural Changes and Regional Income Inequality in Indonesia: A Bi-dimensionalDecomposition Analysis," Asian Economic Journal, Vol. 25 (1) (2011): 55-77, with PujiAgus Kurniawan and Sachiko Miyata.- “Interregional Interdependence and Regional Economic Growth in Japan.” InMacroeconometric Modeling of Japan, edited by Shinichi Ichimura and Lawrence R. Klein,World Scientific, 2010.- "Decomposing Regional Income Inequality in China and Indonesia using Two-StageNested eil Decomposition Method," Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 37 (1) (2003):55-77.SHINICHI WATANABEProfessorPh.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1983Courses:Poverty, War and Human Security, Environment and HumanSecurity, Applied Game eory,International Migration: eory, Policy and InstitutionResearch Interests:Evolution of global institutions for peace and human securityMajor Publications:- "Regulating Global Environmental Risks and ISO," Journal of Japan Society for SafetyEngineering, Vol. 48 (6) (2009) (in Japanese)- "Inter-Provincial Capital Flows during the Transition Period of China," in M. Watanabe,ed., Recovering Financial Systems, China and Asian Transition Economies, IDE-JETRO/Palgrave (2006).- "Dynamics of GDP Processes During the Transition to Market Economies in the FormerSoviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and East Asia." In Financial Systems andEconomic Growth in Developing Countries in Asia and Africa, edited by S. Watanabe, IUJ-IDP Press, 2003.NAWALAGE S. COORAYAssociate ProfessorPh.D. in Economics, University of Nagoya, Japan, 1996Courses:International Political Economy, Econometric Modeling andForecasting with Time Series Data, Essentials of EconomicsResearch Interests:Peace Building and Conflict, ODA, Sustainable DevelopmentIssues, Macroeconomic Policy, Poverty and DevelopmentMajor Publication:-“Financing Emissions Reduction in Asia: Policy Options and Constraints,” Sri LankaEconomic Journal, forthcoming, with Gamini Wijesekere-"Monetary Policy and Yield Curve Dynamics in an Emerging Market: Sri LankanPerspectives," India Macroeconomics Annual, SAGE, forthcoming, with Mohamed Z. M.Aazim- "Sustainable Future of the Global System: Endeavors from Rio to Johannesburg," eUnited Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan (August 2002), with W.D. Lakshman.
25JUNGBU KIMAssociate ProfessorPh.D. in Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology andGeorgia State University, 2007Courses:Public Finance and Budgeting, Public Policy Process, EnvironmentalPolicyResearch Interests:State and local budgeting and finance, research and development(R&D) budgets, intergovernmental transfer, and disaster responseMajor Publications:- "Political Decentralization, Subnational Political Capital, and Intergovernmental Transfersin Korea." e American Review of Public Administration, forthcoming.- "Political Institutions and Public R&D Expenditures in Democratic Countries,"International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 34 (13) (2011): 843-857.- "Structuring a Framework for Public Health Performance-based Budgeting: A GeorgiaCase Study," e Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Vol. 13 (2) (2007):173-179, with Robert J. Eger, III., Valerie Hepburn, and Cathy Slade.OSAMU NAKAMURAAssociate ProfessorPh.D. in Economics, Soka University, 2012Courses:International Economic Systems and Order, Postwar JapaneseEconomy, Japanese Public Finance and AdministrationResearch Interests:Determinants of growth of developing countries, incomedistribution and economic growth, decentralized systems andsustainable economic growth in the Japanese regional economies.Major Publications:-Income Distribution and Economic Growth of Japan under the Deflationary Economy: eoryand Evidence on an Econometric Analysis, World Scientific Publishing, 2012.-“International Trade, Capital Transfer and Economic Growth of Vietnam in the Contextof Asian and the Pacific: An Econometric Analysis with A Global MacroeconometricModel,” e Journal of Econometric Study of Northeast Asia (JESNA), Vol. 8 (2) (2012): 19-42.-“Economic Structure and Growth Performance of Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and FukuiPrefectures: A Comparative Econometric Analysis,” e Journal of Econometric Study ofNortheast Asia (JESNA), Vol. 7 (1) (2010): 23-45.HUN MYOUNG PARKAssociate ProfessorPh.D. in Public Policy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana,2007Courses:Public Policy Modeling, Introduction to Electronic Government,Public Management Information Systems, Public InformationPolicy and ManagementResearch Interests:Policy analysis, information systems and technology, public andnonprofit management, and statistical and econometric methodsMajor Publications:- “e Transformation of Governance: Who Are the New Public Servants and WhatDifference Does It Make for Democratic Governance?” American Review of PublicAdministration, forthcoming, with James L. Perry.- "Do Campaign Websites Really Matter in Electoral Civic Engagement? EmpiricalEvidence from the 2004 Post-election Internet Tracking Survey," Social Science ComputerReview, Vol. 26 (2) (Summer 2008): 190-212, with James L. Perry.- "Does Internet Use Really Facilitate Civic Engagement? Empirical Evidences fromthe American National Election Studies," Civic Engagement in a Networked Society,edited by Erik Bergrud and Kaifeng Yang, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing(2008):237-270, with James L. Perry.MOTOHIDE SAJIAssociate ProfessorPh.D. in Political Science, University of Chicago, 2006Courses:Human Rights and Global Justice, Global Civil Society, Peace,War, and the Development of Modern JapanResearch Interests:Political Philosophy; KantMajor Publications:-“To experience differently: on one strand of Kant’s anthropology.”In Polyphonic Anthropology, edited by Massimo Canevacci, 57-80. InTech, 2012.- "On the Division between Reason and Unreason in Kant," Human Studies: A Journal forPhilosophy and the Social Sciences, Vol. 32 (2) (June 2009): 201-223.- "ree aspects of the Self-Opacity of the Empirical Subject in Kant," Philosophy and SocialCriticism, Vol. 35 (3) (March 2009): 315-337.SHINGO TAKAHASHIAssociate ProfessorPh.D. in Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006Courses:Research Methodology, Cross Sectional and Panel Analysis,Personnel Economics for ManagersResearch Interests:Personnel Economics, work practices and productivity, effects oftaxation on labor supplyMajor Publications:- "How Multi-tasking Job Designs Affect Productivity: Evidence from Australian CoalMining Industry," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 64, No. 5, Article 1 (October2011): 841-862.-"Gender Salary Differences in Economics Departments in Japan," Economics of EducationReview, Vol. 30 (2011): 1306-1319, with Ana Maria Takahashi.- "Determinants of Job Related Stress of Japanese Academic Economists," e JapaneseEconomy, Vol. 37 (2) (2010): 120-127, with Ana Maria Takahashi.ATSUSHI CHINOAssistant ProfessorPh.D. in Finance, University of Washington, Seattle, 2012Courses:Corporate Finance, Investment and Asset Pricing, FinancialAccounting and ReportingResearch Interests:Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, International Finance, IndustrialOrganization, Contract eoryMajor Publications:"Strategic interaction in product markets and a firm's dividend policy" (unpublished manuscript,2012)."Do labor unions affect a firm's payout policy? Operating leverage versus rent extraction"(unpublished manuscript, 2012).NAOKO KUMAGAIAssistant ProfessorPh.D. in Political Science, Graduate Center of the City Universityof New York, 2009Courses:International Organization, International Politics, InternationalConflict ResolutionResearch Interests:International security, Japanese security, disarmament, humanitarianism,war crimes, state sovereignty, transnational civil societyMajor Publications:-"e Challenge of Improvised Explosive Devices to International Humanitarian Law," IUJResearch Institute Working Paper (November 2010).-“Japan’s Self-Centered Reflection upon the Asia-Pacific War,” Journal of Political Criticism,Vol. 9 (November 2011).CHUN-HUNG KUOAssistant ProfessorPh. D., Economics, North Carolina State University, 2012Courses:Time Series Analysis, Applied Econometrics, Financial Economicsand Capital MarketsResearch Interests:Macro-econometrics, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Economics,Development Economics, Computational EconomicsMajor Publications:-“Spline Approximation of Policy Functions in Economics with Uncertainties,” ComputationalEconomics, forthcoming (2012), with Moody T. Chu and Matthew M. Lin.-“Identifying Sources of Misspecification in DSGE Models” (unpublished manuscript,2012), with Atsushi Inoue and Barbara Rossi.-“Structural Estimation of a Heterogeneous Agents Model” (unpublished manuscript, 2012).CHING-YANG LINAssistant ProfessorPh.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2010Courses:Monetary Economics and Policy Analysis, Money and Banking,MicroeconomicsResearch Interests:Macro Economics, Monetary Economics, Labor Economics,Financial EconomicsMajor Publications:- "Gross Worker Flows and Unemployment Dynamics in Japan," Journal of the Japanese andInternational Economies, Vol. 26 (1) (2012): 44-61, with Hiroaki Miyamoto.- "Timing of Motherhood and Economic Growth" (December 2009), mimeo.- "Asset Pricing, Portfolio Decisions in an Incomplete Market" (November 2009), mimeo.YOSHIKUNI ONOAssistant ProfessorPh.D. in Political Science, University of Michigan, 2010Courses:Comparative Government and Politics, Comparative Analysis ofPublic Policy, Public AdministrationResearch Interests:Parliamentary democracy, coalition formation, legislative institutions,political parties, electoral systems, bureaucracy, and Japanese politicsMajor Publications:- “Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Intraparty Barganing in Japan,” American Journalof Political Science, Vol. 56 (3) (2012): 553-567.- "Spatial eory and Voting Behavior," In Tohyo Kodo Kenkyu no Furont'ia [Frontiers of VotingBehavior Studies], edited by Masahiro Yamada. Tokyo: Brain-Shuppan, 2009.- "Nonprofit Organizations and Policy Process: Public Interest Groups and Issue Networks inJapan," Kokkagakkai Zasshi, 115 (2002): 132-192.SANGYUB RYUAssistant ProfessorPh.D. in Public Administration, The University of Georgia, 2012Courses:Public Organization eory, Public Management, Public HumanResource ManagementResearch Interests:Public Management Networks and Network Management BehaviorOrganizational Performance, Decision Making, EmergencyManagementMajor Publications:- "When Claimant Characteristics and Prior Performance Predict Bureaucratic Error," AmericanReview of Pubic Administration, forthcoming, with Jeffrey Wenger and Vicky Wilkins.- "Strengthening Network Ties through Mentoring of Alienated Personnel," e Korean Journalof Policy Studies, Vol. 26 (3) (2011): 53-67, with Soo-Young Lee.