Professor, Graduate school of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
Professor, School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University
【Profile】
Motohiro SATO has been serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University since 2009, after serving as an assistant professor from 1999 and an associate professor from 2002 at Hitotsubashi University. He is also a professor of the School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1992 with a BA and an MA in Economics and obtained a Ph. D. in Economics from Queen’s University, Canada, in 1998. His areas of expertise are public finance, especially local public finance. In the field of health economics, he is studying dispensations of healthcare insurance systems and its theory and has been making policy recommendations based on this research. His publications include books that have been awarded prizes, such as Economics of Local Grant Tax, Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd., 2004 （in Japanese） awarded the 47th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science and Reformation of Local Tax, Nikkei Inc., 2011 （in Japanese） awarded the 52nd Mainichi Economist Prize in 2011. He also received Ishikawa Award of Japanese Economic Association in 2019 and Spring Awarded Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2024.
【Committee service, etc】
He serves as a member of Japan’s Government Tax Commission, Regulatory Reform Promotion Council of the Cabinet office, Fiscal Council of MOF and the Tax Commission of Tokyo, and is an expert panel of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, both in the Cabinet Office.
【Selected Publications】
- Rahman MM, Rouyard T, Khan ST, Nakamura R, Islam MR, Hossain MS, Akter S, Lohan M, Ali, M, Sato M. (2023). Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health intervention coverage in 70 LMICs, 2000-2030:trends, projections, and inequities. Lancet Glob Health, 2023, 11(10): e1531-e1543. 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00358-3
- Rahman MM, Jung J, Islam MR, Rahman MM, Nakamura R, Akter S, Sato M. (2022). Global, regional, and national progress in financial risk protection towards universal health coverage, 2000–2030. Social Science & Medicine,Volume 312, 2022, 115367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115367
- Tomomi Miyazaki, Motohiro Sato. (2021). Property tax and farmland use in urban areas: Evidence from the reform in the early 1990s in Japan. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Volume 63, 2022, 101185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2021.101185
- Boadway Robin, Sato Motohiro, Tremblay, JF. (2021). Cash-flow business taxation revisited: bankruptcy and asymmetric information. International Tax and Public Finance, 2021, 29, 922-952. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-021-09696-9
- Robin Boadway, Motohiro Sato, Jean-François Tremblay. (2021). VAT and the taxation of rents. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2021, 23(4), 601-621. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12510
- Motohiro Sato, Akiko Kamesaka and Franz Waldenberger Eds. (2019). Analysis of the Possible Impact of a Tokyo Mega Earthquake on Japanese Public Finance. “Governance, Risk and Financial Impact of Mega Disasters:Lessons from Japan”3., Springer 2019, 35-46. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9005-0_3
- NOBUO AKAI, MOTOHIRO SATO. (2019). The Role of Matching Grants as a Commitment Device in the Federation Model with a Repeated Soft Budget Setting. Economics of Governance, 2019, 20(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10101-019-00221-7
- Motohiro Sato, Hatta Ted. (2018). Good and Bad Fiscal Decentralization, Structural Reform for Regional Revitalization in Japan Palgrave Pivot, 2018 June
- Robin Boadway, Motohiro Sato, Jean-François Tremblay. (2018). Natural resource extraction in a federation, FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 2018, vol. 74, issue 1, 34-51. DOI 10.1628/001522118X15109346479939
- Motohiro Sato, Takeshi Miyazaki. (2017). Empirical studies on strategic interaction among municipality governments over disaster waste after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2017, 44, 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2017.03.001
- Boadway, R. and M. Sato. (2015). Optimal Income Taxation with Risky Earnings: A Synthesis. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 17(6), 773-801, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12120
- Pestieau, P. and M. Sato, “Long Term Care: The State, the Market, and the Family,” Economica, 75(299), 435-454, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00615.x
- Pestieau, P., G. Ponthiere, and M. Sato. (2008). Longevity, Health Spending and Pay-as-you-Go Pensions. Finanz Archiv, 64 (1), 1-18, 2008. pp. 1–18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40913174
- Boadway, R., M. Marchand, and M. Sato. (2004). An Optimal Contract Approach to Hospital Financing. Journal of Health Economics, 23(1), 85-110, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.08.001
- Marchand M., M. Sato, and E. Schokkaert. (2003). Prior health expenditures and risk sharing with insurers competing on quality,” Rand Journal of Economics, 34(4), 647-669, 2003.
Detailed profile (HRI: Hitotsubashi Researchers Information)
