Toshihiro Ihori

Education
1981, Ph.D. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University

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Present Position
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo

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Editorships
1996 - 2002: Co-editor, The Japanese Economic Review
since 1998: Associate editor, Journal of Public Economics
since 1999: Associate editor, International Tax and Public Finance
since 1999: Associate editor, Economics of Governance
since 2000: Associate editor, Finanzarchiv

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Publications
Books:
"Public Finance in an Overlapping Generations Economy", Macmillan, London, 1996;
"Consumption Tax Policy and the Taxation of Capital Income", Oxford University Press, London, 2000 (with Ray Batina);
"Government Deficit and Fiscal Reform in Japan", Kluwer, 2002

Papers:
"The Golden Rule and the Role of Government in a Life Cycle Growth Model", American Economic Review 68, (June 1978), pp.389-396;
"On the Level of Optimal Capital Import in a Decentralized Competitive Economy,",Journal of Macroeconomics 1, (Spring 1979), pp.223-235;
"Entrepreneurs' Capital Accumulation Behavior and Long-Run Equilibrium",Journal of Macroeconomics 1, (Summer 1979), pp.295-307;
"Sufficient Conditions for the Optimal Degree of Progression to Decrease with the Government Revenue Requirement",Economics Letters 6, (1980), pp.267-272;
"The Golden Rule and the Ramsey Rule at a Second Best Solution", Economics Letters 8, (1981), pp.89-93;
"The Dynamics of Open Market Operations and the Assignment Problem", Journal of Macroeconomics 4, (Spring 1982), pp.179-194;
"Welfare Criteria for Tax Reforms : An Extension", Journal of Public Economics 20, (April 1983), pp.387-389;
"Partial Welfare Improvements and Capital Income Taxation", Journal of Public Economics 24, (June 1984), pp.101-109;
"On the Welfare Cost of Permanent Inflation", Journal of Money Credit and Banking 17, (May 1985), pp.220-231;
"Spillover Effects and the Terms of Trade within a Two-Country Model,”Journal of International Economics 22, (1987), pp.203-218;
"Tax Reform and Intergeneration Incidence", Journal of Public Economics 33, (1987), pp.377-387;
"The Optimal Linear Income Tax : A Diagrammatic Analysis", Journal of Public Economics 34, (1987), pp.379-390;
"Land and Crowding-In Effects", Journal of Macroeconomics 12, (1990), pp.455-465;
"Economic Effects of Land Taxes in an Inflationary Economy", Journal of Public Economics, 42, (1990), pp. 195-211;
"Capital Income Taxation in a World Economy: A Territorial System versus a Residence System," Economic Journal, 101,(1991), pp.958-965;
"Impure Public Goods and Transfers in a Three Agent Model", Journal of Public Economics 48, 1992. pp.385-401;
"The Optimal Type-Specific Tax System: Source of Inequality and Optimal Progression, " Public Finance,1992, 47, 430-445;
"Immiserizing Growth with Interregional Externalities of Public Goods," Regional Science and Urban Economics,1994,24, pp.485-496;
"Economic Integration of Countries with International Public Goods," Journal of Japanese and International Economies 1994, 8, 530-550;
"Intergenerational Transfers and Economic Growth with Alternative Bequest Motives", Journal of Japanese and International Economies 1994, 8, 329-342;
"International Public Goods and Contribution Productivity Differentials", Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 61, 567-585;
"Taxes on capital accumulation and economic growth", Journal of Macroeconomics, 1997, 19, 509-523;
"Protection against National Emergency: International Public Goods and Insurance", Defence and Peace Economics,1999, 117-137;
"Wealth Taxation and Economic Growth", Journal of Public Economics 79, 2000, 129-148;
"Defense Expenditures and Allied Cooperation", Journal of Conflict Resolution, 44, 2000, 854-867;
"A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Reconstruction"(with J. Itaya), European Journal of Political Economy, 17, 2001, 1057-1097