Kazuki Onji BA (Hons, ANU), PhD (University of California - San Diego) Post-Doctoral Fellow Crawford School of Economics and Government

Research Fields

• Public Finance
• Japanese Economy
• Applied Econometrics

Current Interests

• My research interest is in evaluating and documenting the different ways in which man-made environment can affect the behaviour of firms and of individuals.  I am particularly interested in the unintended consequences of tax systems in inducing firms to behave in ways that we would think suboptimal.  For instance, I have examined the responses of firms to eligibility thresholds in the context of the value-added tax in Japan, finding that the sizable number of firms separately incorporated business segments for tax purposes in reaction to the Japanese tax reform of 1989.  My current projects include: (1) the effects of banking regulations on small business lending in Japan and in US. (2) The role of a class registration rule on student learning. (3) A market consequence of tariff evasion.

Publications

• Changes in the Banking System and Small Business Lending, forthcoming, Small Business Economics (with Vera, D.)

Working Papers

• The Response of Firms to Eligibility Thresholds: Evidence from the Japanese Value-Added Tax, 2008, Asia Pacific Economic Papers No. 370 - revise-and-resubmit
• Tax Law Asymmetries and Income Shifting: Evidence from Japanese Capital Keiretsu, 2008, Asia Pacific Economic Papers No. 371 (with Vera, D.) – under review
• Procrastination, Prompts, and Preferences: Evidence from Daily Records of Self-learning Activities, 2007, (with Kikuchi, R.) – under review

Research in Progress

• The Market Consequence of Tariff Evasion (funded by the Japan Economic Research Foundation Grant)
• Tax Reforms and the Consequence of Political Compromises: The Case of the 1989 Reform in Japan
• Skill Acquisitions and the Persistence of Self-practices
• An Empirical Comparison of Paternalistic Policies: Minimally Interventionist Reconsidered

Awards and Grants

• ANU Travel Grant, 2008
• Japan Economic Research Foundation Grant, 2007
• J.G. Crawford Award, 2007
• Pacific Basin Endowment Graduate Fellowship, 2003-4
• Joseph Naiman Fellowship in Japanese Studies, 2003
• Burton and Gallan Hall Academic Award, 1997

Teaching

Current

• Japanese Economy and Economic Policy (with Professor Jenny Corbett) 2nd Semester

Previous

• Principles of Economics
• Financial Insurance

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