Research

Work in Progress and Working Papers

Road and the Economic Geography of Pollution: Evidence from Japan
(joint with A. Ono)
Slides available upon request.
Storing Power: Market Constraint Meets Market Power
(joint with H. Matsushima)
Slides available upon request.
Income-based or Place-based? Carbon Dividends under Spatial Distribution of Automobile Demand
(joint with S. Kuroda)
Keio-Institute for Economic Studies Discussion Paper Series DP2024-019, 2024, PDF.
Do Winners Win More from Transport Megaprojects? Evidence from the Great Seto Bridges in Japan
(joint with A. Ono)
Keio-Institute for Economic Studies Discussion Paper Series DP2024-018, 2024, PDF.
Does White Collar Exemption Work? Evidence from A Hybrid Matching Estimator
PDF. Earlier version: RIETI Discussion Paper 18-E-002.

Refereed Journal Articles

Is Ride-hailing Good for Environment? Evidence from Combining Satellite and Survey Data on U.S. Cities
(joint with A. Ono)
Journal of Urban Economics, 154, 103882, 2026, PDF / DOI.
Why Is Japan's Carbon Emissions from Road Transportation Declining?
(joint with S. Kuroda)
Japan and the World Economy, 66, 101194, 2023, DOI.
Do Regulatory Loopholes Distort Technical Change? Evidence from New Vehicle Launches under the Japanese Fuel Economy Regulation
(joint with S. Managi)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 104, 102377, 2020, DOI, Open Access.
Retiring for Better Health? Evidence from Health Investment Behaviors in Japan
(joint with Meng Zhao and H. Noguchi)
Japan and the World Economy, 42, 56-63, 2017.
Can Green Car Taxes Restore Efficiency? Evidence from the Japanese New Car Market
(joint with Meng Zhao)
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 4(1), 51-87, 2017, DOI.
Emissions Trading, Firm Heterogeneity, and Intra-industry Reallocations in the Long Run
(joint with Nori Tarui)
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2(1), 1-42, 2015, DOI.
Water Quality Trading: Can We Get the Prices of Pollution Right?
(joint with Jay Coggins and Bin Wang)
Water Resources Research, 51(5), 3126-3144, 2015.
Does Information on Health Status Lead to A Healthier Lifestyle? Evidence from China on the Effect of Hypertension Diagnosis on Food Consumption
(joint with Meng Zhao and Paul Glewwe)
Journal of Health Economics, 32(2), 367-385, 2013, DOI.
Does Smoking Affect Schooling? Evidence from Teenagers in Rural China
(joint with Meng Zhao and Paul Glewwe)
Journal of Health Economics, 31(4), 584-598, 2012, DOI.
Efficiency Properties of Binary Ecolabeling
Resource and Energy Economics, 33(4), 798-819, 2011.
A Framework for Estimating Willingness-To-Pay to Avoid Endogenous Environmental Risks
(joint with Kenji Adachi)
Resource and Energy Economics, 33(1), 130-154, 2011.
Economic Evaluation of the New U.S. Arsenic Standard for Drinking Water: A Disaggregated Approach
(joint with Yongsung Cho and K. William Easter)
Water Resources Research, 46, W10527, 2010.
Environmental Risk and Welfare Valuation under Imperfect Information
(joint with Jay S. Coggins)
Resource and Energy Economics, 30(2), 150-169, 2008.
What Are the Economic Health Costs of Non-Action in Controlling Toxic Water Pollution?
(joint with K. William Easter)
International Journal of Water Resources Development, 22(4), 529-541, 2006.

Books and Book Chapters

Modern Environmental Economics: Empirical Microeconomic Approach
Yoshifumi Konishi
Nippon Hyoron Sha, 2026, 350 pages.
Economics of Ride-sharing
Yoshifumi Konishi
Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute, 2024, 111 pages, DOI.
Economics of Transportation and Environment
Yoshifumi Konishi
In The Frontiers of Environmental Economics, edited by Toshi Arimura, Hajime Katayama, and Shigeru Matsumoto. Tokyo: Nippon Hyoron Sha, 2017, 25 pages.

For Broader and Policy Audience

Economics of Battery Storage and Australia's Electricity Market
Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute, 2026.
Japan's Green Transformation (GX) Policy: Problems and Solutions from An Empirical Economist's Perspectives
Mizuho Financial Securities Co., 2024.
Lectures on Empirical Research for Evidence-based Policy Making
Prepared for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
Expert Comments on Japan's Green Transformation Policies
Evidence-based Policy Making Advisory Board, Cabinet Office of Japan, 2023-2025.
Recent Trends in Difference-in-differences Estimation: Problems and Solutions
Tutorial Session for the Japanese Economic Association, co-organized by Science Council of Japan, 2023, materials.
Incorporating Non-market Environmental Values in Competition Policies
Presentation prepared for Japan Fair Trade Commission, 2023.
Empirical Microeconomic Approach to Design of Climate Mitigation Policies
Presented at Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance, Japan, 2022.
Making Use of Electricity Market Data for Evidence-based Decarbonization Policy
Invited article, 2022.
Decarbonizing Energy Sector: Perspectives from Empirical Environmental Economics
Mita Gakkai Zasshi, 2022.
Recent Advances in Difference-in-differences Estimation with Staggered Adoption: Problems and Solutions
Tutorial Session for the 24th Japan Labor Economics Conference, 2021.
Empirical Microeconomic Approach to Decarbonization of Electricity Sector
Keizai Seminar, 2021.
What Do We Know about Effective Climate Mitigation Policies?
Nikkei Global Economics Trend, 2020.
Structural and Reduced-form Approaches to Causal Inference: Toward Evidence-informed Policy Making
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2020.
A Review of Empirical Analyses on Japan's Vehicle CO2 Control Policies: Toward An Effective Environmental Policy Design
Statistics, 2020.