Research & Staff

Staff Introduction

Economic Theory and Statistics

ASANO Takao(Professor)

ASANO Takao

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research into the effect on rational decision-makers of uncertainties in a broad sense that cannot be comprehended by the conventional concept of risk.
Web Site
https://sites.google.com/site/takaoasano73/
Research areas, keyword
Finance, Microeconomics
Research Subject
Subject：Behavioral Economics

YOKOO Masanori(Professor)

YOKOO Masanori

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Research into the non-linear phenomena of dynamic systems in the economy and society.
Web Site
https://sites.google.com/site/masanoriyokoo71/
Research areas, keyword
Macroeconomics, Nonlinear Economic Dynamics
Research Subject
　

HIGASHI Youichiro(Professor)

HIGASHI Youichiro

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
My research area is microeconomics, decision theory　especially, decision theory. The purpose of decision theory is to provide a foundation for the decision process of a decision maker through observable behavior, such as consumption-savings decisions, and to analyze the consequences for economic models.
Research areas, keyword
Decition theory, Microeconomics

SATO Misato(Associate Professor)

SATO Misato

Title
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Theoretical analysis on anticompetitive vertical exclusive dealing

NARUKAWA Masaki(Associate Professor)

NARUKAWA Masaki

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Statistical analysis of time series and its applications
Research areas, keyword
Time series analysis, Econometrics

ZHANG Xingyuan(Professor)

ZHANG Xingyuan

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Research into methods of applied econometric analysis and the empirical analysis of innovation and so on.
Research areas, keyword
Applied Econometric Analysis

FURUMATSU Noriko(Professor)

FURUMATSU Noriko

Title
Professor
Sex
female
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct theoretical research into higher education policy from the viewpoint of public economics.
Research areas, keyword
Public Economics
Research Subject
Subject：Economic Analysis on Educational Policies.

MURAI Joshin(Professor)

MURAI Joshin

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Research on the application of probability theory to economics and an analysis of the interface of spin system using statistical mechanics. Deliver lectures on probability theory and its appication to economic models.
Research areas, keyword
Probability Theory, Econophysics

OKOSHI Hiro(Senior Assistant Professor)

OKOSHI Hiro

Title
Senior Assistant Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Theoretical analysis on firms’ response to trade policy and international taxation.
Web Site
http://hirofumi-okoshi.net/
Research areas, keyword
International taxation, Transfer pricing, Trade policy
Research Subject
Subject：Analyses on Multinationals’ Tax Avoidance and the Arm’s Length Principle: Viewpoints from Product Differentiation

Socio-Economic Planning and Policy Science

YAMAGUCHI Keiko(Associate Professo)

YAMAGUCHI Keiko

Title
Associate Professo
Sex
female
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
My major field is environmental economics and I conduct empirical researches into the market evaluation for corporate social responsibility and consumer preferences for environmentally friendly products.
Research areas, keyword
Environmental Economics
Research Subject
Subject：The effect of corporate fiancial performance to corporate environmental performance

OKAMOTO Akira(Professor)

OKAMOTO Akira

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct theoretical and empirical research into taxation and social security policy in the era of birthrate decline and population aging and the depopulating society.
Web Site
http://www.cc.okayama-u.ac.jp/~okamot-a/okamoto.html
Research areas, keyword
Economic Policy, Tax Reform, Social Security Reform
Research Subject
Subject：Oputimal Rate of National Tax Burden
Subject：International Research Project on Aging (Japan, China, Korea)
Subject：Tax and Social Security Reforms in an Aging Japan

NAKAMURA Ryohei(Professor)

NAKAMURA Ryohei

Title
Professor
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research into areas related to urban issues and regional policies from an economic point of view.

SAI Gyousei(Associate Professor)

SAI Gyousei

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
female
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research into international financial econometrics and time series analysis.
Research areas, keyword
Time Series Analysis; International Finance Econometrics

KISHIDA Kensaku(Professor)

KISHIDA Kensaku

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
My main research topic is the nursing care insurance system. In the classroom, I mainly deal with the social security system of Japan and other countries with a focus on healthcare, nursing care and pensions.
Research areas, keyword
介護保険
Research Subject
Subject：Designing of Long-term Care Insurance

TSURI Masao(Professor)

TSURI Masao

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
My major field is macroeconomics and I conduct into the empirical analysis of the Japanese economy, especially economic policy.
Web Site
https://sites.google.com/site/tsuriokadai/
http://bylines.news.yahoo.co.jp/tsurimasao/
Research areas, keyword
Japanese Economy, Macroeconomics, Economic Policy
Research Subject
Subject：Study on Japanese Economy
Subject：Study on the Effects of Fiscal Policy

HIGASHI Yudai(Senior Assistant Professor)

HIGASHI Yudai

Title
Senior Assistant Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research into job search-matching and local labor markets.
Research areas, keyword
Labor Economics, Regional Economics, Applied Econometrics

FUKUDA Ryo (Lecturer)

FUKUDA Ryo

Title
Lecturer
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
The relationship between firm location, inter-firm networks, and innovation

International Comparative Economics

OZEKI Manabu(Professor)

OZEKI Manabu

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Standard of living of pre-war Japanese rulal and farm household economy, Education Field: Economic History of Japan.

TAGUCHI Masahiro(Professor)

TAGUCHI Masahiro

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research and education on various issues concerning the economics of transition and economic development strategy with a focus on analysis of the contemporary Polish economy.

TENG Jian(Professor)

TENG Jian

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research into income disparities in China, and input-output analyses of the Chinese and Japanese economies.

TSUMORI Takayuki(Professor)

TSUMORI Takayuki

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Analysis of the Japanese port transport industry, port policy, the East Asian sea transport market, and the East Asian economic bloc as seen from the point of view of logistics. Education: Explanation of the structural characteristics of the contemporary world economic system and the position within that of the East Asian economy.

FUKUSHI Jun(Professor)

FUKUSHI Jun

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Economic history of the British Empire. Problems of Anglo-colonial economic relations.

TAHARA Nobuko(Associate Professor)

TAHARA Nobuko

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
female
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
My specialty is applied linguistics, and I am studying how vocabulary is connected in English, and as a result, transfer of meaning and topic conversion occur.

HIROTA Yoko(Associate Professor)

HIROTA Yoko

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
female
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Teaching interest: Education for international students. Communicative competence in English. Research interest: Citizen participation and governance.

SATO Jumpei(Senior Assistant Professor)

SATO Jumpei

Title
Senior Assistant Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I analyze the formation of the economies of Asian countries and their relationship with Japan from the historical viewpoint.

Kim Jiyoung(Associate Professor)

Kim Jiyoung

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
female
Research area
Fund circulation analysis, industrial relations analysis

Business Administration

HARUNA Shoji (Professor)

HARUNA Shoji

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Research on research and development (R&D) and spillovers in the oligopoly market

MATSUDA Yoichi(Professor)

MATSUDA Yoichi

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I carry out organizational change (in terms of people’s willness and behavior) and human resource management (in terms of corporate’s policies) for based on theories of organizational behavior.
Research areas, keyword
Organizational Change, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Culture, Human Resource Management,Team Medicai Care,Sightseeing
Research Subject
Subject：Research on Organizational Change in Japanese Companies

AOO Ken (Associate Professor)

AOO Ken

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Theory and case study analysis of social innovation; well-being

NISHITA Yosuke(Associate Professor)

NISHITA Yosuke

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
Conduct the researches on coporate strategies and resources, especially focusing on SMEs.
Research areas, keyword
Strategic management, SMEs

TOMAE Hisao(Associate Professor)

TOMAE Hisao

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research into the management of regional enterprises, including such themes as the internationalization of regional enterprises and their relationship with industrial concentration.
Research areas, keyword
local enterprize competitiveness
Research Subject
Subject：Internationalization of Regional enterprises

OZEKI Miki(Associate Professor)

OZEKI Mikiame

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
female
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research into group norms and social identity theory.

HIDAKA Yuichiro(Associate Professor)

HIDAKA Yuichiro

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct researches on the construction process of made-in label images and the effectiveness of CRM activites in retail, theoretically and experimentally.
Research areas, keyword
Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Distribution
Research Subject
Subject：The construction process of social norms
Subject：The effectiveness of CRM in retail

SAKEMOTO Ryuuta(Associate Professor)

SAKEMOTO Ryuuta

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct empirical research about financial markets. In particular, I explore asset pricing models of currency markets and co-movement across different asset markets.
Web Site
https://sites.google.com/site/rsakemotohomepage/home
Research areas, keyword
Finance, International Finance, Financial Econometrics
Research Subject
Subject：Commodity price comovement
Subject：Currency Portfolios

Accounting

KAJITANI Takashi(Professor)

KAJITANI Takashi

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct researches on tax law and tax accounting.

TENNOJIYA Tatsumasa(Senior Assistant Professor)

TENNOJIYA Tatsumasa

Title
Senior Assistant Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research on the management accounting for innovation and value creation.
Research areas, keyword
Management Accounting, Social and Environmental Accounting, Innovation

NAKAGAWA Toyotaka(Professor)

NAKAGAWA Toyotaka

Title
Professor
Sex
male
Affiliation
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research area
I conduct research on value relevance of earnings and cash flows, accounting anomalies, management earnings forecasts, quality of earnings, and the impact of IFRS adoption on capital markets.
Research areas, keyword
Financial Accounting

Informatics

KOKUMAI Mitsuyuki(Associate Professor)

KOKUMAI Mitsuyuki

Title
Associate Professor
Sex
male
Research area
Information system management

Education and Research Support Office

SHIIGAMOTO Chie

SHIIGAMOTO Chie

Sex
female

KUSANO Yukiko

KUSANO Yukiko

Sex
female