Nori Tarui

Ongoing & Recent Projects

Full research profile at UHERO ↗

  • NSF Research Traineeship Program, "Data in Engineering and Society: Converging Applications, Research, and Training Enhancements for Students" (NRT-DESCARTES, PI: Narayana Santhanam)
  • "Socio-Economic Impacts of Sea Level Rise and Sea Level Rise Response," subaward (PI: Makena Coffman), Office of Naval Research (PI: Chip Fletcher)
  • "Integrated Education and Research in Transition Energy for Communities," U.S. Department of Energy (PI: Reza Ghorbani)
  • "Estimating the economic value of coastal tourism under climate change using revealed mobile phone network data," University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program (PI: Nori Tarui)
  • "Conditional Demand Analysis of Residential Energy Use Survey," Hawaiian Electric Company (PI: Nori Tarui)
  • "Identifying Multiple Values for Beaches and Coastlines Under Sea Level Rise," National Science Foundation (PI: Makena Coffman)
  • "Scoping research on Hawaiʻi's experience in electrical energy transition," Panasonic Corporation
  • "Comprehensive economic valuation of Waikīkī Beach and Nearshore," University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program and Waikiki Special District Association
  • "An economic analysis of solar PV diffusion: investigating the role of weather and economic incentives using granular load data," Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaiʻi

Publications

  1. 2026 Ofori Adofo, J.; Tarui, N.; Tanaka, T. "The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resources: Evidence from Ghana," Journal of Development Studies, 1–21.
  2. 2025 Khan, M.T.; Newfield, C.; Tarui, N.; Coffman, M. "Sea Level Rise Impacts on Residential Real Estate Value in Hawaiʻi," Climatic Change, 178, 210.
  3. 2025 Nguyen, D.N.; Tarui, N.; Sasaki, D.; Tsukuda, H.; Suppasri, A.; Imamura, F. "Adapting to Health Crisis at Japanese Hot Springs: Understanding Visitor Travel Intention and Perceptions of Countermeasures," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105399.
  4. 2025 Higashida, K.; Ishikawa, J.; Tarui, N. "Carrying Carbon? Negative and Positive Carbon Leakage with International Transport," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.

    Working paper version: RIETI Discussion Paper 21-E-102.

  5. 2024 Park, D.; Tarui, N. "The Effect of Diesel Vehicle Regulation on Air Quality in Seoul: Evidence from Seoul's Low Emission Zone," Sustainability, 16, 9573.
  6. 2024 Eversole, D.; Peng, M.; Tarui, N.; Tsuge, T. "Tourism and Beaches: Their Multilayered Demand and Sustainability," Quarterly Journal of Marketing.
  7. 2023 Oshiro, A.; Tarui, N. "Effects of Alternative Pricing Structures on Electricity Consumption and Payments in the Commercial and Industrial Sector," Japan and the World Economy, 101223.
  8. 2023 Tarui, N.; Urbanski, S.; Lam, Q.L.; Newfield, C.; Coffman, M. "Sea Level Rise Risk Interactions with Coastal Property Values: A Case Study of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi," Climatic Change, 176, 130.
  9. 2023 Setter, R.O.; Han, R.X.; Tavares, K.D.; Newfield, C.; Terry, A.; Robertson, I.M.; Tarui, N.; Coffman, M. "Managing Retreat for Sandy Beach Areas under Sea Level Rise," Scientific Reports, 13, 11920.
  10. 2023 Peng, M.; Tarui, N.; Tsuge, T.; Eversole, D. "What's a (Better) Beach Day Worth? Economic Valuation of Changes in Waikīkī Beach Characteristics," Coastal Management, 51(3), 186–210.
  11. 2021 Daitoh, I.; Tarui, N. "Open Access Renewable Resources, Urban Unemployment, and the Resolution of Dual Institutional Failures," Environment and Development Economics.
  12. 2021 Ishikawa, J.; Tarui, N. "You Can't Always Get What You Want: Protectionist Policies with the Transport Sector," Economics Letters, 207, 110009.
  13. 2021 Brucal, A.; Tarui, N. "The Effects of Utility Revenue Decoupling on Electricity Prices," Energy Economics, 101, 105440.

    Working paper: UHM Econ WP 20-11R.

  14. 2021 Smith, L.V.; Tarui, N.; Yamagata, T. "Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Global Fossil Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions," Energy Economics, 97, 105170.

    Working paper on SSRN.

  15. 2020 Hayakawa, K.; Ishikawa, J.; Tarui, N. "What Goes Around Comes Around: Export-Enhancing Effects of Import-Tariff Reductions," Journal of International Economics, 126, 103362.

    Working paper: UHM Econ WP 20-09R.

  16. 2018 Ishikawa, J.; Tarui, N. "Backfiring with Backhaul Problems: Trade and Industrial Policies with Endogenous Transport Costs," Journal of International Economics, 111, 81–98.

    Discussed on Vox CEPR's Policy Portal.

  17. 2017 Mason, C.F.; Polasky, S.; Tarui, N. "Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation," European Economic Review, 99, 43–55.
  18. 2017 Tarui, N. "Electric Utility Regulation under Enhanced Renewable Energy Integration and Distributed Generation," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 19(3), 503–518.
  19. 2016 Lynham, J.; Nitta, K.; Saijo, T.; Tarui, N. "Why Does Real-Time Information Reduce Energy Consumption?," Energy Economics, 54, 173–181.
  20. 2016 Sherstyuk, K.; Tarui, N.; Ravago, M.L.V.; Saijo, T. "Intergenerational Games with Dynamic Externalities and Climate Change Experiments," Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 3(2), 247–281.
  21. 2015 Konishi, Y.; Tarui, N. "Emissions Trading, Firm Heterogeneity, and Intra-Industry Reallocations in the Long Run," Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2(1), 1–42.
  22. 2013 Yomogida, M.; Tarui, N. "Emission Taxes and Border Tax Adjustments for Oligopolistic Industries," Pacific Economic Review, 18(5), 644–673.
  23. 2013 Sherstyuk, K.; Tarui, N.; Saijo, T. "Payment Schemes in Infinite-Horizon Experimental Games," Experimental Economics, 16(1), 125–153.
  24. 2010 Heal, G.; Tarui, N. "Investment and Emission Control under Technology and Pollution Externalities," Resource and Energy Economics, 32(1), 1–14.
  25. 2008 D'Evelyn, S.T.; Tarui, N.; Burnett, K.; Roumasset, J.A. "Learning-by-Catching: Uncertain Invasive-Species Populations and the Value of Information," Journal of Environmental Management, 89(4), 284–292.
  26. 2008 Tarui, N.; Mason, C.F.; Polasky, S.; Ellis, G. "Cooperation in the Commons with Unobservable Actions," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55(1), 37–51.
  27. 2007 Tarui, N. "Inequality and Outside Options in Common-Property Resource Use," Journal of Development Economics, 83(1), 214–239.
  28. 2006 Polasky, S.; Tarui, N.; Ellis, G.; Mason, C.F. "Cooperation in the Commons," Economic Theory, 29(1), 71–88.
  29. 2005 Tarui, N.; Polasky, S. "Environmental Regulation with Technology Adoption, Learning and Strategic Behavior," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 50(3), 447–467.

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