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Kota Sugimoto
Last updated : October 04, 2023
Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University
- Areas of Expertise
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- Resource and energy economics
- electricity market design
- applied econometrics
Bio
Kota Sugimoto worked at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research from 2020 to 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow. He received his PhD in economics from Kyoto University in March 2020 after receiving a bachelor of commerce from Keio University in March 2015. He studied at Melbourne University in 2012 as an exchange student.
Research Program
Policy Evaluation of Cross-Regional Interconnection Lines in the Electricity Market
Japan’s Response to an Accelerating Global Energy Transition (2021–2022)
The Blue Economy: International Trends and the Situation in Japan ( –2021)
Select Publications
Sugimoto, Kota. “Ownership versus Legal Unbundling of Electricity Transmission Network: Evidence from Renewable Energy Investment in Germany.” Energy Economics, volume 99, 105290, July 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105290.
Sugimoto, Kota. “Does Transmission Unbundling Increase Wind Power Generation in the United States?” Energy Policy, volume 125, pp. 307–316, February 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.10.032.
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