Overview
- Empirically investigates performance, cost, demand, planning and management in public utilities in transportation
- Examines the effects, background, and mechanisms of public utilities operation and environment
- Explores future policy and governance in public utilities referring to general private industries
Part of the book series: Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research (KUMSSSR)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Public Utilities and Infrastructure
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Transportation
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Governance and Policy
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fumitoshi Mizutani is a professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, where he has worked since obtaining a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1993. Currently he is serving as president of the Japan Society of Public Utility Economics and the Japan Society of Transport Economics. His main research has focused on the economic analysis of regulatory changes in public utility industries. He has also been involved in international research projects such as with the World Bank, and he has published in books and international journals such as Journal of Regulatory Economics, Empirical Economics, and Review of Network Economics. He has been awarded academic prizes. 
Takuya Urakami is a professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Kindai University. His interest is in productivity, efficiency and performance analysis, especially of the water and sewerage industry. He currently serves on council committees forthe Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as well as various municipal governments. He is now a research representative for Kindai University, cooperating with the Centre for Productivity and Performance of Loughborough University, UK. He has published in international journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Urban Studies, and Papers in Regional Science.
Eri Nakamura has been an associate professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, since 2014. After obtaining her Ph.D. from Kobe University in 2011, she worked as a lecturer at Shinshu University until 2013. She was a visiting researcher at Vienna University of Economics and Business from 2016 to 2018. She has been engaged in research on efficiency, organizational management, governance and corporate social responsibility in public utilities as well as general private companies. She has published in international journals such as Utilities Policy, Journal of Business and Industrial Economics, and Journal of Management and Governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Current Issues in Public Utilities and Public Policy
Book Subtitle: Empirical Studies Focusing on Japan
Editors: Fumitoshi Mizutani, Takuya Urakami, Eri Nakamura
Series Title: Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7489-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7488-5Published: 26 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7491-5Published: 27 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-7489-2Published: 25 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-504X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5058
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 351
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Economics, Industrial Organization, Industries, Economic Policy, Economic Policy, Industries