OHASHI Hiroshi

Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, Science & Technology Innovation Policy, Trade Policy, Economic Policy

• Design and System Analyses of the Electricity Market and its implications for Japan (June 12, 2023 - November 30, 2025)
• Policy Analyses on Industrial Organization (October 19, 2020 - September 30, 2022)
• Policy Analyses on Industrial Organization (January 15, 2018 - December 31, 2019)
• Basic Research for a New Industrial Policy (August 24, 2015 - March 31, 2017)
• Globalization, Innovation, and Competition Policy (July 1, 2015 - December 31, 2016)
• Basic Research for a New Industrial Policy (August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2015)
• Globalization, Innovation, and Competition Policy (July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015)
• Basic Research for a New Industrial Policy (August 22, 2011 - July 31, 2013)
• Globalization, Innovation, and Competition Policy (July 19, 2011 - June 30, 2013)
• Globalization, Innovation, and Competition Policy (September 16, 2008 - December 31, 2010)
• Empirical Analysis of Trade Policy and Corporate Behavior (August 26, 2008 - February 28, 2011)
• Research on Changes in Multinational Corporations, Trade Structures, and Market Institutions (July 1, 2007 - March 31, 2011)

Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University
B.A., Economics, The University of Tokyo

2020 - Dean, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
2018 - 2020 Vice Dean, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
2012 - Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
2003 - 2012 Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
2000 - 2003 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Electric Vehicle Charging Management Using Auction Mechanism for Reducing PV Curtailment in Distribution Systems, (with H. Kikusato, Y.Fujimoto, S. Hanada, D. Isogawa, S. Yoshizawa, Y. Hayashi), IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2019
• Market Structure and Product Quality: A Case Study of the 2002 Japanese Airlines Merger (with N. Doi), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 62:158-193, 2019
• The Effects of Domestic Mergers on Exports: A Case Study of the 1998 Korean Automobile Industry, (with Y. Toyama), Journal of International Economics, 107:147-64, 2017
• Treatment of Monopolization in Japan and China (with L. Ping), in R. Blair and D. Sokol (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, Vol. 2, Ch 9: 188-233, Oxford Univ. Press, 2015
• Economic Thinking for Evidence-based Policy Making, ed., University of Tokyo Press, 2020 (in Japanese)