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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Kota Sugimoto
Last updated : February 05, 2023
- Areas of Expertise
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- Resource and energy economics
- electricity market design
- applied econometrics
Bio
Kota Sugimoto became a postdoctoral fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research in April 2020. He received a Bachelor of Commerce from Keio University in March 2015, studying at Melbourne University in 2012 as an exchange student. He received a PhD in economics from Kyoto University in March 2020.
Research Program
Policy Evaluation of Cross-Regional Interconnection Lines in the Electricity Market
Japan’s Response to an Accelerating Global Energy Transition
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.