KENZO ABEKENZO ABE
Professor, Graduate School of Economics
Osaka University
E-MAIL:k-abe@econ.osaka-u.ac.jp

YEAR OF BIRTH:

1958

NATIONALITY:

Japanese

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. (1990) Economics, Kobe University of Commerce, JAPANM.A. (1982) Economics, Kobe University of Commerce, JAPAN
B.A. (1980) Political Science, Keio University, JAPANPRIMARY FIELD:International Trade
Applied Microeconomics
Public Economics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2002 –

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce and Business

2003

Administration
HSBC Visiting Professor (November 2002 – August 2003)

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

2003

AdministrationVisiting Scholar (March 2002 – August 2003 )1999 –

Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics
Professor of Economics

1998 –

Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

1999

Associate Professor of Economics

1995 –

Osaka University, Faculty of Economics

1998

Associate Professor of Economics

1993 –

University of Florida, Department of Economics

1994

Visiting Scholar (March 1993 – March 1994)

1992 –1995

Osaka City University, Faculty of Economics
Associate Professor of Economics

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1992 –1993
1991 –1992
1991

United States Information Agency
International Visitor (December 1992 – February 1993)
Osaka City University, Faculty of Economics
Lecturer of Economics
International Monetary Fund, Research Department
Visiting Scholar (July – August)1986 –1991
1985 –1986

Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Economics
Associate Professor of Economics
Nagoya City University, Department of Economics
Research Assistant

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1997 –2002
1997 –2002
1996 –1997
1994 –1996

Kobe University, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration
Part-time Lecturer
Doshisha University, Graduate School of Economics
Part-time Lecturer
Kansai University, Faculty of Economics
Part-time Lecturer
Doshisha University, Faculty of Economics
Part-time Lecturer

1994－

Kyoto University, Faculty of Total Humanity

1994

Part-time Lecturer (April – September)1991 –

Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Economics and Graduate School of1992

Economics
Part-time Lecturer

1991－1991
1990 –1991
1990－

Doshisha University, Department of Economics
Part-time Lecturer (April - September)
Setsunan University, Department of Business Administration and Information
Part-time Lecturer
Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Economics

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1990

Part-time Lecturer (March)

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS: Refereed Articles:
1. “Production Possibilities and International trade with a Public Intermediate Good,”
Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol.17, No. 2, May 1984, pp.218-232, with MakotoTawada.
2. “A Note on the Production possibility Frontier with Pure Public Intermediate Good,”
Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 19, No. 2, May 1986, pp.351-356, with Hisayuki
Okamoto and Makoto Tawada.
3. “Public Production and the Incidence of a Corporate Income Tax,” Economic Studies
Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 1988, pp.233-245, with Makoto Tawada.
4. “Anatomy of Tax Incidence in the Initially Distorted Economy of Variable Returns toScale,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 37, No. 1, October 1988, pp.114-120.
5. “The Welfare Effects of International Tax Harmonization,” with Makoto Okamura,Economic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3, September 1989, pp.203-211.
6. “A Gradual Switching Regression Model with a Flexible transition Path,” Economics
Letters, Vol. 32, No. 2, January 1990, pp.43-48, with Kazuhiro Ohtani and SumioKakimoto.
7. “Public Inputs as a Determinant of trade,” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 23,
No. 2, May 1990, pp.400-407.
8. “Tariff Reform in a Small Open Economy with Public Production,” International
Economic Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, February 1992, pp.209-222. Reprinted in C.
Kowalczyk ed. The Theory of trade Policy Reform. International Library of CriticalWritings in Economics. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2001.
9. “The transfer Problem in a Context of Public Goods,” Economics Letters, Vol.45, No.2,1994, pp. 223-226, with Murray C. Kemp. 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. Itoand 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.
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12. “Eco-Labelling, Environment, and International trade,” in R. M. Stern, ed., Issues andOptions for U.S.-Japan trade Policies, The University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor),
2002, pp.227-248, with Keisaku Higashida and Jota Ishikawa.
13. “Endogenous International Joint Ventures and the Environment”, Journal ofInternational Economics, Vol.67, Issue 1, September 2005, pp.221-240, with LaixunZhao.
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”,
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol.10, Issue 6, December 2008,
pp.1085-1094,with Takumi Naito.
16. "The Economic Analysis of Multilateral Trade Liberalization and Non-trade Concerns:
Trade and Environment", in Akira Kotera, Ichiro Araki and Tsuyoshi Kawase, eds. The
Future of The Multilateral Trading System: East Asian Perspectives, CMP
Pubulishing Ltd., 2009, pp.379-399.
17. “The Environmental Industry, Environmental Policies, and International trade”, TheInternational Economy, No. 14, 2010, pp.77-94, with Yasuyuki Sugiyama.
18. “International transfer, Environmental Policy, and Welfare”, The Japanese Economic
Review, Vol.63.,No.2, June 2012, pp. 204-215, with Yasuyuki Sugiyama and Kazuharu
Kiyono.
19. “Trade Liberalization and Environmental Regulation on International Transportation”,
The Japanese Economic Review, Vol.65, No.4, December 2014, pp.204-215, withKeisuke Hattori and Yoshitaka Kawagoshi.
20. “Environmental Protection in the Presence of Unemployment and Common Resources”,
forthcoming in Review of Development Economics, with Muneyuki Saito.

Other Articles:
1. “The Analysis of Tax Incidence with Public Production: A Case of Imperfect Mobility ofLabor,” 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.
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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 21stCentury, 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)
13. “Comment： New Trade System in Asia Pacific Region and Japan,” International
Economy, Vol.63, October 2012. (in Japanese)
14. “Emission from International Transportation and the Effects of Emission and Export
Taxes,” with Yoshitaka Kawagoshi, Osaka Economic Papers, Vol.63, No.3, December
2013. (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)
4. International Economics, with Masahiro Endo, Yuhikaku, Tokyo, 2012 (in Japanese)
REVIEW OF OTHER PUBLICATIONS: Refereed papers for Canadian Journal ofEconomics, China Economic Review, Economic Journal, International Economic Review,
Japan and the World Economy, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of InternationalEconomics, Journal of International Economic Integration, Journal of Public Economics,
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Keio Economic Studies, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Review ofInternational Economics, Southern Economic Journal.

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