Yoshifumi Konishi

Assistant Professor of Economics

Office: South Academic Building Rm. 327
Webpage: http://www.williams.edu/Economics/faculty/konishi.shtml
E-mail: Yoshifumi.Konishi@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4766
Fax: (413)597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
South Academic Building
Williamstown, MA 01267

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Education

University of Minnesota, Ph.D., 2008
University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1999
Chuo University, B.A., 1996
Curriculum Vitae (doc)

Fields of Specialization

Environmental Economics
Public Economics

Publications

Konishi, Yoshifumi and Jay S. Coggins, "Environmental Risk and Welfare Valuation under Imperfect Information", Resource and Energy Economics, 30(2), 150-169 (2008).

Easter, K. William and Yoshifumi Konishi, "What Are the Economic Health Costs of Non-Action in Controlling Toxic Water Pollution?" Water Resources Development, 22(4), 529-541 (2006).

Working Papers

“A General Framework to Estimate Willingness-To-Pay to Avoid Environmental Risks”

“Private Provision of Publicly Useful Information: An Empirical Analysis of Public Notification Rules for Safe Drinking Water Act” with Kenji Adachi

“Can Rural Communities Comply with the New Arsenic Standard for Drinking Water?” with Yongsung Cho and William Easter

“On the Optimality of Environmental Standard for Binary Ecolabeling”

“Estimating the Value of Foregone Rights on Land” with Jay Coggins and Steven Taff

“Green Consumerism in A Large Economy”

Selected Work Experience

Research Assistant, University of Minnesota, 2002 - 2008
Instructor, Mathematics Review, University of Minnesota, 2005 & 2007
Teaching Assistant, Econometric Analysis, University of Minnesota, 2005
Business Analyst, Goldman Sachs & Co., 1999 - 2001