Updated on 2024/04/12

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OBARA Takuya
 
Organization
Faculty of Commerce Associate Professor
Other responsible organization
Commerce Course of Graduate School of Commerce, Master's Program
Commerce Course of Graduate School of Commerce, Doctoral Program
Contact information
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Degree

  • Ph.D. (Economics) ( Hitotsubashi University )

  • M.A. (Economics) ( Hitotsubashi University )

Education

  • 2018.1
     

    Hitotsubashi University   Graduate School of Economics   Applied Economics Program   doctor course   completed

  • 2014.3
     

    Hitotsubashi University   Graduate School of Economics   Applied Economics Program   master course   completed

  • 2012.3
     

    Aoyama Gakuin University   College of Economics   Department of Public and Regional Economics   graduated

  • 2008.3
     

    Niigata Prefectural Sanjo High School   graduated

Research History

  • 2024.4 - Now

    Daito Bunka University   Faculty of Economics

  • 2023.4 - Now

    Seijo University   Faculty of Economics

  • 2021.4 - Now

    Chuo University   Faculty of Commerce   Associate Professor

  • 2023.4 - 2024.3

    Hosei University   Faculty of Economics

  • 2020.4 - 2021.3

    Tohoku Gakuin University   Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics   Associate Professor

  • 2019.4 - 2020.3

    Tohoku Gakuin University   Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics   Assistant Professor

  • 2018.4 - 2019.3

    Yokohama National University

  • 2018.4 - 2019.3

    Aoyama Gakuin University   College of Economics

  • 2018.4 - 2019.3

    Hitotsubashi University   Graduate School of Economics

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Professional Memberships

  • Association for Public Economic Theory

  • THE JAPAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE

  • JAPANESE ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

Research Interests

  • 最適課税論

  • 税制

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Economic policy

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Public economics and labor economics  / 財政学

Papers

  • Optimal Taxation in an Endogenous Fertility Model with Non-Cooperative Behavior Reviewed

    Takuya Obara, Yoshitomo Ogawa

    Review of Economics of the Household   22 ( 1 )   173 - 197   2024.3

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    DOI: 10.1007/s11150-023-09662-w

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  • Public Investment Criteria under Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation without Commitment Reviewed

    Shigeo Morita, Takuya Obara

    Journal of Public Economic Theory   23 ( 4 )   732 - 745   2021.8

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  • λ Envy-Free Pricing for Impure Public Good Reviewed

    Takuya Obara, Shuichi Tsugawa, Shunsuke Managi

    Economic Theory Bulletin   9 ( 1 )   11 - 25   2021.4

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:Elsevier BV  

    DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3299783

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  • Public Good Provision Financed by Nonlinear Income Tax under Reduction of Envy Reviewed

    Takuya Obara, Shuichi Tsugawa

    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy   19 ( 4 )   1 - 16   2019.10

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  • Optimal Human Capital Policies under the Endogenous Choice of Educational Types Reviewed

    Takuya Obara

    Journal of Public Economic Theory   21 ( 3 )   512 - 536   2019.6

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  • Differential Income Taxation and Tiebout Sorting Reviewed

    Takuya Obara

    FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis   75 ( 1 )   1 - 38   2019.1

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  • Optimal Capital Income Taxation in the Case of Private Donations to Public Goods Reviewed

    Shigeo Morita, Takuya Obara

    Economics Bulletin   38 ( 2 )   921 - 939   2018.4

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  • Essays on Optimal Taxation and Policy Implication Reviewed

    Takuya Obara

    Hitotsubashi University   2018.1

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Doctoral thesis  

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  • Optimal Combination of Wage Cuts and Layoffs: The Unexpected Side Effect of a Performance-Based Payment System Reviewed

    Izumi Yokoyama, Takuya Obara

    IZA Journal of Labor Policy   6 ( 14 )   1 - 15   2017.12

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:SpringerOpen  

    This study analyzes the trade-off relationship between layoffs and wage cuts. If the introduction of a performance-based payment system stimulates workers’ pecuniary-motivated minds, their morale can be damaged more severely by wage cuts than prior to the introduction thereof. Utilizing this idea, we demonstrate theoretically that the more heavily wages are based on performance, the more firms, fearing that workers’ morale will be damaged by wage cuts, try to avoid wage cuts and instead prefer layoffs. Next, we show empirically the trend whereby firms with performance-based payment systems are unlikely to implement wage cuts. Given this first-stage regression, the status of a performance-based payment system, based on the firm’s past decision and assured to be exogenous, is employed as an instrumental variable (IV) for wage cuts in a layoff regression model to overcome simultaneous bias. In the second-stage regression, the IV estimates for the impact of wage cuts on layoffs are significantly negative: if a firm implements wage cuts, it will reduce the probability of layoffs by 0.172. This supports the theoretical implication that implementing wage cuts can be a potential device for reducing layoffs. These results may imply an unexpected side effect of the increasing use of performance-based payment systems: as such systems become more widespread, layoffs will increase because firms will become less likely to impose wage cuts, thus potentially resulting in high unemployment.

    DOI: 10.1186/s40173-017-0092-2

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  • The Welfare Comparison of Ad-Valorem Tax and Specific Tax with Both Quality and Quantity Choice of a Consumer Reviewed

    Takuya Obara, Shuichi Tsugawa

    Theoretical Economics Letters   7 ( 6 )   1797 - 1813   2017.10

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MISC

  • Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples: Mirrlees Meets Nash

    Takuya Obara, Yoshitomo Ogawa

    2024

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  • Endogenous Decisions on Acceptable Worker−Job Mismatch Level and the Impact on Workers' Performance

    Izumi Yokoyama, Takuya Obara, Kazuma Edamura, Arisa Shichijo, Tomohiko Inui

    SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3695573   2020.9

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Presentations

  • Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation for Non-Cooperative Couples: Mirrlees Meets Nash

    Japanese Economic Association  2024.5 

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  • The Optimal Non-Linear Income Taxation with Non-Cooprative Agents: Mirrlees Meets Nash

    2023.10 

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  • Optimal Taxation in an Endogenous Fertility Model with Non-Cooperative Couples

    2020.10 

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  • Envy-free Pricing for Impure Public Good International conference

    Obara Takuya

    The 2019 International Conference on Public Economic Theory  2019.7 

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  • Optimal Human Capital Policies under the Endogenous Choice of Educational Types International conference

    The 2018 International Conference on Public Economic Theory  2018.6 

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  • Optimal Taxation with Public Good Provision for Reduction of Envy

    Japanese Economic Association  2017.9 

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  • Optimal Human Capital Policies under the Endogenous Choice of Educational Types

    Japanese Economic Association  2017.6 

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Research Projects

  • Optimal policy analysis under inefficiencies in intra-household child care and caregiving decisions

    Grant number:21K13316  2021.4 - 2025.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists  Chuo University

    Obara Takuya

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    Grant amount: \2990000 ( Direct Cost: \2300000 、 Indirect Cost: \690000 )

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  • The impact of redistributive policies on economic growth under human capital accumulation

    2019.8 - 2021.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up 

    Obara Takuya

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  • 人的資本投資を考慮した下での再分配政策の経済成長への影響

    2019.4 - 2020.3

    公益財団法人 東京経済研究センター  2019年度個人プロジェクト研究助成 

    小原 拓也

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Teaching Experience

  • 特殊研究Ⅰ〜Ⅲ(財政学)(大学院)

  • ミクロ経済学Ⅰ・マクロ経済学Ⅰ

  • 公共経済論A・B

  • 経済学Ⅰ・Ⅱ

  • 基礎セミナー(経済学)(大学院)

  • 演習Ⅰ・Ⅱ(財政学)(大学院)

  • 財政学Ⅰ(大学院)

  • 演習Ⅲ・Ⅳ(演習論文)

  • 財政学

  • 演習Ⅰ・Ⅱ

  • 課題演習Ⅰ・Ⅱ

  • ベーシック演習Ⅰ・Ⅱ

  • マクロ経済学入門Ⅱ

  • 演習Ⅱ(3年次ゼミ)

  • 演習Ⅰ(2年次ゼミ)

  • 総合演習(1年次ゼミ)

  • マクロ経済政策論

  • ミクロ経済政策論

  • 入門経済数学Ⅱ

  • 財政学基礎

  • 財政学Ⅰ・Ⅱ

  • Public Finance

    Institution:Yokohama National University

  • 公共政策論

  • 基礎ゼミナールA

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