KENZO ABE

                                    Professor

                                    Graduate School of Economics

                                    Osaka University

 

ADDRESS:         Graduate School of Economics

Osaka University

1-7, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka

Osaka 560-0043 JAPAN

FAX:     (06)6850-5256

 

YEAR OF BIRTH: 1958

 

NATIONALITY: Japanese

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D.  (1990)       Economics, Kobe University of Commerce, JAPAN

M.A.  (1982)       Economics, Kobe University of Commerce, JAPAN

B.A.   (1980)       Political Science, Keio University, JAPAN

 

PRIMARY FIELD:

International Trade

Applied Microeconomics

Public Economics

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2002 – 2003               University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

                                           HSBC Visiting Professor (November 2002 – August 2003)

2002 – 2003               University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

                                           Visiting Scholar (March 2002 – August 2003  )

1999 –                        Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

                                           Professor of Economics

1998 – 1999               Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

                                           Associate Professor of Economics

1995 – 1998               Osaka University, Faculty of Economics

                                           Associate Professor of Economics

1993 – 1994               University of Florida, Department of Economics

                                           Visiting Scholar (March 1993 – March 1994)

1992 – 1995               Osaka City University, Faculty of Economics

                                           Associate Professor of Economics

1992 – 1993               United States Information Agency

                                           International Visitor (December 1992 – February 1993)

1991 – 1992               Osaka City University, Faculty of Economics

                                           Lecturer of Economics

1991                           International Monetary Fund, Research Department

                                           Visiting Scholar (July – August)

1986 – 1991               Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Economics

                                           Associate Professor of Economics

1985 – 1986               Nagoya City University, Department of Economics

                                           Research Assistant

 

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

1997 – 2002               Kobe University, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration

                                           Part-time Lecturer

1997 – 2002               Doshisha University, Graduate School of Economics

                                           Part-time Lecturer

1996 – 1997               Kansai University, Faculty of Economics

                                           Part-time Lecturer

1994 – 1996               Doshisha University, Faculty of Economics

                                           Part-time Lecturer

1994−1994               Kyoto University, Faculty of Total Humanity

                                           Part-time Lecturer (April – September)

1991 – 1992               Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Economics and Graduate School of Economics

                                           Part-time Lecturer

1991−1991               Doshisha University, Department of Economics

                                           Part-time Lecturer (April - September)

1990 – 1991               Setsunan University, Department of Business Administration and Information

                                           Part-time Lecturer

1990−1990               Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Economics

                                           Part-time Lecturer (March)

 

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:

 

Refereed Articles:

 

1. “Production Possibilities and International Trade with a Public Intermediate Good,” with Makoto Tawada, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol.17, No. 2, May 1984, 218-232.

2. “A Note on the Production possibility Frontier with Pure Public Intermediate Good,” with Hisayuki Okamoto and Makoto Tawada, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 19, No. 2, May 1986, 351-356.

3. “Public Production and the Incidence of a Corporate Income Tax,” with Makoto Tawada, Economic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 1988, 233-245.

4. “Anatomy of Tax Incidence in the Initially Distorted Economy of Variable Returns to Scale,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 37, No. 1, October 1988, 114-120.

5. “The Welfare Effects of International Tax Harmonization,” with Makoto Okamura, Economic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3, September 1989, 203-211.

6. “A Gradual Switching Regression Model with a Flexible Transition Path,” with Kazuhiro Ohtani and Sumio Kakimoto, Economics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 2, January 1990, 43-48.

7. “Public Inputs as a Determinant of Trade,” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 23, No. 2, May 1990, 400-407.

8. “Tariff Reform in a Small Open Economy with Public Production,” International Economic Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, February 1992, 209-222. Reprinted in C. Kowalczyk ed. The Theory of Trade Policy Reform. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2001.

9. “The Transfer Problem in a Context of Public Goods,” with Murray C. Kemp, Economics Letters, Vol.45, No.2, 1994, 223-226. Reprinted in revised form, and with M. Tawada as coauthor, in M.C. Kemp, The Gains from Trade and the Gains from Aid, London: Routledge, 1995.

10. “The Target Rates of Tariff and Tax Reform,” International Economic Review, Vol.36, No.4, 1995, 875-885.

11. “International Joint Ventures, Economic Integration, and Government Policy,” in T. Ito and A.O. Krueger, eds., The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in East Asian Economic Development, The University of Chicago Press (Chicago and London), 2000, pp.191-206, with Laixun Zhao.

12. “Eco-Labelling, Environment, and International Trade,” forthcoming in R. M. Stern, ed., Issues and Options for U.S.-Japan Trade Policies, The University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), with Keisaku Higashida and Jota Ishikawa.

13. “Endogenous International Joint Ventures and the Environment”, Journal of International Economics, Vol.67, Issue 1, September 2005, pp.221-240, with Laixun Zhao.

14. “Tied Aid and Welfare”, Review of International Economics, Vol.13, Issue 5, November 2005, pp.964-972, with Yasuhiro Takarada.

15. “Welfare-and revenue-enhancing tariff and tax reform under imperfect competition”, forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic Theory, with Takumi Naito.

 

 

Other Articles:

 

1. “The Analysis of Tax Incidence with Public Production: A Case of Imperfect Mobility of Labor,” Seiryo-dai Ronshu, Vol. 15, No. 2·3, March 1983. (in Japanese)

2. “A Semi-public Intermediate Good and Trade Theories,” Seiryo-dai Ronshu, Vol. 16, No. 2·3, March 1984. (in Japanese)

3. “The Long-run Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax,” Seiryo-dai Ronshu, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 1985. (in Japanese)

4. “The Analysis of Tax Incidence with Public Production,” with Makoto Tawada, Oikonomika, Vol. 23, No. 3·4, March 1987.

5. “The Welfare Effects of Tariff Reform - A Survey,” Ritsumeikan Economic Review, Vol. 37, No. 4·5, December 1988. (in Japanese)

6. “Public Sector and Trade Structure,” Ritsumeikan Economic Review, Vol. 38, No. 6, February 1990. (in Japanese)

7. “A Note on the Comparative Advantage under Monopoly,” Ritsumeikan Economic Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 1991.

8. “Tax Reform in a Small Open Economy,” in M. Tawada and J. Kondo, eds., Modern Economic Theory and its Applications, Chuo-Keizai-sha, December 1992. (in Japanese)

9. “Tariff Reform and Public Expenditure,” Keizaigaku-zasshi (Journal of Economics), Vol. 93, No. 5·6, March 1993. (in Japanese)

10. “Economic Integration with International Joint Ventures,” Osaka Economic Papers, Vol. 48, No. 3·4, March 1999.

11. “Environment and Trade”, in N. Souri and Y. Hattori, eds., Economic Policy in the 21st Century, Nihon Hyoronsha, September 1999. (in Japanese)

12. “Property Rights for Environmental Resources and International Trade,” Policy Science, Vol.7, No.3, March 2000. (in Japanese)

 

Books:

 

1. Basic International Economics, with Masao Oda, Katsuhiko Suzuki, and Kazuhiro Igawa, Yuhikaku, Tokyo, 1989. (in Japanese)

2. International Public Economics, Yuhikaku, Tokyo, 1990. (in Japanese)

3. International Trade･Finance (Small Dictionary) with Takekazu Iwamoto, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 2003. (in Japanese)

 

 

REVIEW OF OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

 

            Refereed papers for Canadian Journal of Economics, China Economic Review, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Japan and the World Economy, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Economic Integration, Journal of Public Economics, Keio Economic Studies, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Review of International Economics, Southern Economic Journal.

 

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