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Research profile at UHERO

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ONGOING PROJECTS

  • NSF Research Traineeship Program "Data in Engineering and Society: Converging Applications, Research, and Training Enhancements for Students" (NRT-DESCARTES, PI: Narayana Santhanam) 

  • “Socio-Economic Impacts of Sea Level Rise and Sea Level Rise Response,” Subaward (PI: Makena Coffman), Office of Naval Research (PI: Chip Fletcher)

  • "Integrated Education and Research in Transition Energy for Communities,” U.S. Department of Energy (PI: Reza Ghorbani)

  • "Estimating the economic value of coastal tourism under climate change using revealed mobile phone network data,” University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program (PI: Nori Tarui)

  • “Conditional Demand Analysis of Residential Energy Use Survey,” Hawaiian Electric Company, (PI: Nori Tarui)

 

 WORKING PAPERS

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PUBLICATIONS​

  • Nguyen, David N.; Tarui, Nori; Sasaki, Daisuke; Tsukuda, Haruka; Suppasri, Anawat; Imamura, Fumihiko "Adapting to Health Crisis at Japanese Hot Springs: Understanding Visitor Travel Intention and Perceptions of Countermeasures," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105399, 2025.

  • Higashida, Keisaku; Ishikawa, Jota; Tarui, Nori "Carrying Carbon? Negative and Positive Carbon Leakage with International Transport," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 12631, 2025. (Working paper version: Discussion papers 21102, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, RIETI.)

  • Park, Dongkyu.; Tarui, Nori. The Effect of Diesel Vehicle Regulation on Air Quality in Seoul: Evidence from Seoul’s Low Emission Zone. Sustainability 2024, 16, 9573.

  • Eversole, Dolan; Peng, Marcus; Tarui, Nori; Tsuge, Takahiro "Tourism and Beaches: Their Multilayered Demand and Sustainability," Quarterly Journal of Marketing, 2024.044,

  • Oshiro, Asahi; Tarui, Nori "Effects of alternative pricing structures on electricity consumption and payments in the commercial and industrial sector.” Japan and the World Economy (2023): 101223.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

  • Tarui, Nori; Urbanski, Seth; Lam, Quang Loc; Newfield, Conrad; Coffman, Makena "Sea Level Rise Risk Interactions with Coastal Property Values: A Case Study of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi." Climatic Change 176,130, 2023. ​​​

  • Setter, Renee.O.; Han, Rachael X.; Tavares, Kammie-Dominique; Newfield, Conrad; Terry, Alice; Robertson, Isabella M.; Tarui, Nori; Coffman, Makena “Managing Retreat for Sandy Beach Areas under Sea Level Rise.” Scientific Reports 13, 11920, 2023.

  • Peng, Marcus; Tarui, Nori; Tsuge, T.; Eversole, D. (2023) What's a (Better) Beach Day Worth? Economic Valuation of Changes in Waikīkī Beach Characteristics, Coastal Management 51:3, 186-210. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

  • Daitoh, Ichiroh; Tarui, Nori “Open Access Renewable Resources, Urban Unemployment, and the Resolution of Dual Institutional Failures,” Environment and Development Economics, 2021.

  • Ishikawa, Jota; Tarui, Nori “You Can't Always Get What You Want: Protectionist Policies with the Transport Sector,” Economics Letters, Volume 207, October 2021, 110009 (Open access)

  • Brucal, Arlan; Tarui, Nori "The Effects of Utility Revenue Decoupling on Electricity Prices,” Energy Economics, 101, 2021, 105440.

    • ​​Working paper version available at UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 20-11R

  • Smith, L.Vanessa; Tarui, Nori; Yamagata, Takashi "Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on global fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions," Energy Economics, 97, 2021, 105170. 

         Working paper version available at SSRN.    

  • Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Ishikawa, Jota; Tarui, Nori “What Goes Around Comes Around: Export-Enhancing Effects of Import-Tariff Reductions,” Journal of International Economics,126, 2020, 103362. (Open access)

  • Ishikawa, Jota; Tarui, Nori “Backfiring with Backhaul Problems: Trade and Industrial Policies with Endogenous Transport Costs,” Journal of International Economics, 111, 2018, 81-98. 

  • Mason, Charles F.; Polasky, Stephen; Tarui, Nori "Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation” European Economic Review, 99, 2017, 43-55. 

  • Tarui, Nori "Electric utility regulation under enhanced renewable energy integration and distributed generation” Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 19(3), 2017, 503-518. 

      (Draft version: UHERO Working Paper No. 2017-2)

  • Lynham, John; Nitta, Kohei; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Tarui, Nori "Why does real-time information reduce energy consumption?” Energy Economics, 54, 2016, 173-181.

  • Sherstyuk, Katerina; Tarui, Nori; Ravago, Majah-Leah V., Saijo, Tatsuyoshi "Intergenerational Games with Dynamic Externalities and Climate Change Experiments.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,  3(2), 2016, 247–281.

  • Konishi, Yoshifumi; Tarui, Nori "Emissions Trading, Firm Heterogeneity, and Intra-Industry Reallocations in the Long Run.”  Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 2(1), 2015, 1-42. 

  • Yomogida, Morihiro; Tarui, Nori "Emission Taxes and Border Tax Adjustments for Oligopolistic Industries,” Pacific Economic Review, 18 (5), 2013, 644–673. 

  • Sherstyuk, Katerina; Tarui, Nori; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi "Payment schemes in infinite-horizon experimental games,” Experimental Economics, 16 (1), 2013, 125-153.

  • Heal, Geoffrey; Tarui, Nori "Investment and Emission Control under Technology and Pollution Externalities,” Resource and Energy Economics, 32(1), 2010, 1-14. 

  • D'Evelyn, Sean T.; Tarui, Nori; Burnett, Kimberly; Roumasset, James A. "Learning-by-Catching: Uncertain Invasive-Species Populations and the Value of Information,” Journal of Environmental Management, 89 (4), 2008, 284-292.

  • Tarui, Nori; Mason, Charles F.; Polasky, Stephen; Ellis, Greg "Cooperation in the Commons with Unobservable Actions,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55(1), 2008, 37-51.

  • Tarui, Nori "Inequality and Outside Options in Common-Property Resource Use,” Journal of Development Economics, 83(1), 2007, 214-239.

  • Polasky, Stephen; Tarui, Nori; Ellis, Greg; Mason, Charles F. "Cooperation in the Commons,” Economic Theory, 29(1), 2006, 71-88.

  • Tarui, Nori; Polasky, Stephen "Environmental Regulation with Technology Adoption, Learning and Strategic Behavior,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 50(3), 2005, 447-467.

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WORKING PAPERS

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RECENT PROJECTS

  • “Identifying Multiple Values for Beaches and Coastlines Under Sea Level Rise,” National Science Foundation (PI: Makena Coffman). 

  • “Conditional Demand Analysis of Residential Energy Use Survey,” Hawaiian Electric Company.

  • “Scoping research on Hawaiiʻs experience in electrical energy transition,” Panasonic Corporation. 

  • "Comprehensive economic valuation of Waikīkī Beach and Nearshore,” University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program and Waikiki Special District Association. 

  • “An economic analysis of solar PV diffusion: investigating the role of weather and economic incentives using granular load data,” Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii.

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