NORI TARUI

 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) 

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

• "Economic impacts of severe weather events,” University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program (PI: Peter Fuleky) . 

 

 WORKING PAPERS

• "Carrying Carbon? Negative and Positive Carbon Leakage with International Transport," with Keisaku Higashida and Jota Ishikawa, Discussion papers 21102, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).

• “The local economic effects of natural resources: evidence from Ghana,” with Josephine Ofori Adofo and Tomomi Tanaka, Policy Research Working Papers, the World Bank. 

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PUBLICATIONS​

• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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. 

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• 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)

  • Working paper version available at UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 20-09R.  

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

  • A discussion on the main theme of the paper is available at Vox CEPR’s Policy Portal. 

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

  • (Earlier version: CESifo Working Paper No. 5698 (January 2016)

• 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.

  • (Earlier version: UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 14-19.)

• 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.

  • (Earlier version: UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 15-9R.)

• 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. 

  • ​(Earlier version: Center for Economic Institutions Working Paper 2014-1, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.)

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

  • (Earlier version: UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 13-17.)

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

  • (Earlier version: "Payment schemes in random-termination experimental games,"  UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 11-2.)

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

  • ​(Earlier version: "Technology diffusion, Abatement Cost and Transboundary Pollution," FEEM Working Paper 96.08)

• 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

• "Carrying Carbon? Negative and Positive Carbon Leakage with International Transport," with Keisaku Higashida and Jota Ishikawa, RIETI Discussion Paper 21-E-102, Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry, 2021.

  • A Vox EU article draws on this paper.  ​

• “Open-Access Renewable Resources and Urban Unemployment: Dual Institutional Failures in a Small Open Economy,” with Ichiroh Daitoh. Keio-IES Discussion Paper DP2016-009, Institute for Economic Studies, Keio University, 2016.  

• “Backfiring with Backhaul Problems: Trade and Industrial Policies with Endogenous Transport Costs,” with Jota Ishikawa. Discussion paper HIAS-E-12, Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University, 2015, and RIETI Discussion Paper Series 16-E-006, Research Institute of the Economy, Trade and Industry, 2016. 

• "Governing the Resource: Scarcity-Induced Institutional Change,”  with James A. Roumasset. UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 10-15.

• "Intra-Industry Reallocations and Long-run Impacts of Environmental Regulations,” with Yoshifumi Konishi. UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 13-7.

• "Other-regarding behavior under collective action,” with Katerina Sherstyuk, Melinda Podor, Jay Viloria, Tatsuyoshi Saijo. UH Manoa Department of Economics Working Paper 14-4.

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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.