Motohiro Sato

Education
Ph.D of Economics (Queen's University, Canada)

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Present Positions
Professor of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
Graduate School of Economics
Vice Dean of International and Public Policy School

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Selected Publications
"Subsidies versus Public Provision of Private Goods as Instruments for Redistribution," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol.100 (3), pp.545-546 (with Robin Boadway and Maurice Marchand)

"Fiscal Externalities and Efficient Transfers in a Federal System," International Tax and Public Finance, 7(2), March 2000, pp.119-139

"Information Acquisition and Government Intervention in Credit Market," Journal of Public Economic Theory, 1(3), July 1999, pp.283-308 (with Robin Boadway)

"Agency and the Design of Welfare Systems," Journal of Public Economics, 73(1), July 1999, pp.1-30 (with Robin Boadway and Nicolas Marceau).

"The Optimality of Punishing Only the Innocent: The Case of Tax Evasion," International Tax and Public Finance, 7(6), December 2000, pp.641-664 (with Robin Boadway)

"Ex ante Free Mobility, Ex Post Immobility and Time Consistency in a Federal System," Journal of Public Economics, 82 (3), December 2001 (with Kiyoshi Mitsui).

"Intergovernmental Transfers, Governance Structure and Fiscal Decentralization," Japanese Economic Review, 53(1), 2002, pp.55-76.

"Economic Integration and Fiscal Decentralization," Journal of Public Economics, 87(11), 2003, pp.2507-2525. (with Manuel Leite Monteiro)

"Prior health expenditures and risk sharing with insurers competing on quality," Rand Journal of Economics.34 (4), pp.647-669, December 2003. (with Maurice Marchand and Erik Schokkaert)

"Tax Competition, Rent Seeking and Fiscal Decentralization," European Economic Review, 47, pp.19-40, February 2003

"Can Partial Fiscal Coordination be Welfare Worsening? A model of tax competition," Journal of Urban Economics, 54, pp.451- 458, 2003. (with Maurice Marchand and Pierre Pestieau)

"An Optimal Contract Approach to Hospital Financing," Journal of Health Economics, 23, pp.85-110, 2004. (with Robin Boadway and Maurice Marchand)

"Decentralization and Economic Development: An Evolutionary Approach," Journal of Public Economic Theory, v. 7, iss. 3, pp. 497-520 August 2005.

"PAYG pension systems with capital mobility," International Tax and Public Finance, Vol13(5), pp.587-599, 2006. (with Pierre Pestieau, Gwanaël Piaser)

"Long Term Care: The State, the Market, and the Family," Economica, Vol 75, Issue 299, Date: August 2008, Pages: 435-454. (with Pierre Pestieau)

“Longevity, Health Spending and Pay-as-you-Go Pensions,” Finanz Archiv Vol 64 Issue 1 2008  pp. 1-18. (with Pierre Pestieau, Gregory Ponthiere)

‘Bureaucratic Advice and Political Governance’, Journal of Public Economic Theory,  Volume 10, Number 4, August 2008 , pp. 503-527. (with Robin Boadway)

“Too big or too small? A synthetic view of the commitment problem of interregional transfers,” Journal of Urban Economics Vol 64, Issue 3, November 2008, Pages 551-559. (with Nobuo Akai)

”Estate Taxation with Both Accidental and Planned Bequests, ” Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics Vol. 15 2008, 223-240. (with Pierre PESTIEAU)

“Optimal Tax Design and Enforcement with an Informal Sector, ” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 2009, page 1-27. (with Robin Boadway)

"Entrepreneurship and Asymmetric Information in Input Markets," International Tax and Public Finance, April 2011, v. 18, iss. 2, pp. 166-92 (with Robin Boadway)

”A Simple Dynamic Decentralized Leadership Model with Private Savings and Local Borrowing Regulation”Journal of Urban Economics 70, 2011, pp.15–24 (with Nobuo Akai)