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Current Issues in Public Utilities and Public Policy

Empirical Studies Focusing on Japan

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Editors:
  1. Fumitoshi Mizutani

    1. Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe Universtiy, Kobe, Japan

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  2. Takuya Urakami

    1. Faculty of Business Administration, Kindai University, Higashiosaka City, Japan

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  3. Eri Nakamura

    1. Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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  • Empirically investigates performance, cost, demand, planning and management in public utilities in transportation
  • Examines the effects, background, and mechanisms of public utilities operation and environment
  • Explores future policy and governance in public utilities referring to general private industries

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Fumitoshi Mizutani
    Pages 1-13

  3. Public Utilities and Infrastructure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. An Analysis of the Effect of Demand Response on Electricity Consumption: Assessing Households’ Heterogeneous Reaction to Dynamic Pricing

      • Fumitoshi Mizutani, Takuro Tanaka, Eri Nakamura
      Pages 17-35

    3. Estimation of Tap Water Demand in Japan: A Panel Data Analysis

      • Noriyoshi Nakayama, Takuya Urakami
      Pages 37-46

    4. Economies of Scale and Consolidation Effects in the Japanese Sewerage Industry

      • Tomoyasu Tanaka
      Pages 47-69

    5. Productivity Measurement and Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity in Japan’s Postal and Parcel Delivery Industry

      • Shuji Uranishi
      Pages 71-96

    6. Preferential Slot Allocation for LCCs at a Congested Airport, and Airfare: The Case of Haneda Airport in Tokyo

      • Jun Mizutani
      Pages 97-111

    7. The Impact of Airport Concession on Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Major Airports in Japan

      • Koji Adachi
      Pages 113-127
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About this book

This book is novel in that it reveals significant issues of economics, management and business fields currently observed in network industries such as public utilities and transportation, and provides empirical evidence of their mechanisms and policy implications from various perspectives. This is a holistic collection of literature on public utilities economics and management, since the industries discussed include a wide range such as electricity, water supply, sewerage, transport, and postal service, which compound social infrastructure as public benefit service, and the issues examined contain not only economics topics such as cost, efficiency, and productivity, but also management topics such as governance, strategy and organizational restructuring. The book also investigates general private companies to derive future implications for policy and governance of public utilities, and covers multiple countries such as Japan, the US, and Vietnam. It demonstrates various empirical approaches and methodologies for public utility analysis through 17 chapters by experts in each field, which contributes to further cultivation of empirical studies in public utilities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe Universtiy, Kobe, Japan

    Fumitoshi Mizutani

  • Faculty of Business Administration, Kindai University, Higashiosaka City, Japan

    Takuya Urakami

  • Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

    Eri Nakamura

About the editors

Fumitoshi Mizutani is a professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, where he has worked since obtaining a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1993. Currently he is serving as president of the Japan Society of Public Utility Economics and the Japan Society of Transport Economics. His main research has focused on the economic analysis of regulatory changes in public utility industries. He has also been involved in international research projects such as with the World Bank, and he has published in books and international journals such as Journal of Regulatory Economics, Empirical Economics, and Review of Network Economics. He has been awarded academic prizes.　

 

Takuya Urakami is a professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Kindai University. His interest is in productivity, efficiency and performance analysis, especially of the water and sewerage industry. He currently serves on council committees forthe Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as well as various municipal governments. He is now a research representative for Kindai University, cooperating with the Centre for Productivity and Performance of Loughborough University, UK. He has published in international journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Urban Studies, and Papers in Regional Science.

 

Eri Nakamura has been an associate professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, since 2014. After obtaining her Ph.D. from Kobe University in 2011, she worked as a lecturer at Shinshu University until 2013. She was a visiting researcher at Vienna University of Economics and Business from 2016 to 2018. She has been engaged in research on efficiency, organizational management, governance and corporate social responsibility in public utilities as well as general private companies. She has published in international journals such as Utilities Policy, Journal of Business and Industrial Economics, and Journal of Management and Governance.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Current Issues in Public Utilities and Public Policy

  • Book Subtitle: Empirical Studies Focusing on Japan

  • Editors: Fumitoshi Mizutani, Takuya Urakami, Eri Nakamura

  • Series Title: Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7489-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7488-5Published: 26 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7491-5Published: 27 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-7489-2Published: 25 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2524-504X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-5058

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 351

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Economics, Industrial Organization, Industries, Economic Policy, Economic Policy, Industries

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