Shun-ichiro Bessho

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Articles in refereed journals:

• Ibuka, Yoko and Shun-ichiro Bessho. 2016. Out-of-pocket payments and community-wide health outcomes: an examination of influenza vaccination subsidies in Japan. Health Economics, Policy and Law 11(3), 275-302. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133116000037]
• Ibuka, Yoko and Shun-ichiro Bessho. 2015. Subsidies for influenza vaccination, vaccination rates, and health outcomes among the elderly in Japan. Japan and the World Economy 36, 56-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2015.07.001]
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Hikaru Ogawa. 2015. Fiscal adjustment in Japanese municipalities. Journal of Comparative Economics 43(4), 1053-1068. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2014.10.007] WP version
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Masayoshi Hayashi. 2015. Should Japanese tax system be more progressive? An evaluation using simulated SMCFs based on the discrete choice model of labor supply. International Tax and Public Finance 22(1), 144-175. [DOI: 10.1007/s10797-014-9303-6] Link. Slides
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Masayoshi Hayashi. 2014. Intensive margins, extensive margins, and spousal allowances in the Japanese system of personal income taxes: A discrete choice analysis. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 34, 162-178. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2014.06.001]
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Kimiko Terai. 2013. Fiscal restraints by advisors. Economics of Governance 14(3), 205-232. [DOI: 10.1007/s10101-013-0127-0] [Link]WP version
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Masayoshi Hayashi. 2013. Estimating the social marginal cost of public funds: A microdata approach Public Finance Review 41(3), 360-385. [DOI: 10.1177/1091142113475699]
• Ihori, Toshihiro, Ryuta Ray Kato, Masumi Kawade, and Shun-ichiro Bessho. 2011. Health insurance reform and economic growth: Simulation analysis in Japan. Japan and the World Economy 23(4), 227-239. [Link].
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro, and Masayoshi Hayashi. 2011. Labor supply response and preferences specification: Estimates for prime-age males in Japan. Journal of Asian Economics, forthcoming. [Link]
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Kimiko Terai. 2010. Competition for private capital and central grants: the case of Japanese industrial parks. Economics of Governance, 12(2), 135-154.. WP ver.
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Eiko Tobita. 2007. Unemployment risk and buffer-stock saving: An empirical investigation in Japan. Japan and the World Economy 20, 303-325.
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Yasushi Ohkusa. 2006. When do people visit a doctor?. Health Care Management Science 9(1), 5-18.
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Masayoshi Hayashi. 2005. Economic Studies of Taxaton in Japan: The Case of Personal Income Taxes. Journal of Asian Economics 16(6), 956-972. (working paper version)
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro, Nobuo Akai and Masayoshi Hayashi. 2003. Marginal cost of public funds. JCER Economic Journal 47, 1-19 (leading article, in Japanese).
• Masayoshi Hayashi and Shun-ichiro Bessho. 2004. Social Marginal Cost of Public Funds: The Case of Progressive Personal Income Taxes in Japan. Economic Analysis (ESRI) 172, (leading article, in Japanese).
• Doi, Takero and Shun-ichiro Bessho. 2005. Subsidized local bonds through local allocation tax grants.JCER Economic Journal 51, 33-58. (in Japanese)
• Doi, Takero and Shun-ichiro Bessho. 2005. Subsidized local bonds in Japan. Zaisei Kenkyu 1, 311-328�D(in Japanese)

Working papers

• Ogawa, Hikaru and Shun-ichiro Bessho. 2014. Fiscal adjustment in Japanese municipalities. Nagoya University Economic Research Center Discussion Paper E13-5.
• Masumi Kawade, Shun-ichiro Bessho and Ryuta Ray Kato. 2005. Public Capital and Government Deficits in an Aging Japan: Simulation Analysis. CRR Working Paper Series A-5, Shiga University.
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Yasushi Ohkusa. 2003. What are the determinants of hospital choice?: Time, costs, option demands and communication.
• Ihori, Toshihiro, Ryuta Ray Kato, Masumi Kawade and Shun-ichiro Bessho. 2005. Public debt and economic growth in an aging Japan. prepared for IMF-MOF Joint Conference, CIRJE Discussion Papers F-372, University of Tokyo.
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Masayoshi Hayashi. 2005. The Social Cost of Public Funds: The Case of Japanese Progressive Income Taxation. presented at 61st Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, ICC Jeju, Korea., PRI Discussion Paper Series 05A-16.
• Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Masayoshi Hayashi. 2005. The CES Utility Function , Non-linear Budget Constraints and Labor Supply : Results on Prime-age Males in Japan. PRI Discussion Paper Series 05A-15.

Educational Backgrounds

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Tokyo, 2006
• M.A., Economics, University of Tokyo, 2001.
• B.A., Economics, University of Tokyo, 1997.

Professional Backgrounds

• Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, 2011-
• Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Policy, and Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, 2006-2011
• Economist, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance, Japan, 2003-2006.
• Part time lecturer, MeijiGakuin University, 2004-
• Part time lecturer, Takachiho University, 2004-2005.
• Part time lecturer, Saitama University, 2003-2006.
• JSPS Research Fellow, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2001-2003.
• Economist, Japan Research Institute, Ltd., 1997-1999.

Referee experience

• Japanese Economic Review, Health Care Management Science, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Keizai-seisaku Journal