Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities

Preface.- Chapter 1. Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan: Reasons, Objectives, and Methods.- Chapter 2. Survival Analysis of Public Gas Utility Firms in the Japanese Urban Gas Industry.- Chapter 3. Concession in infrastructure management: A case of public gas service in Japan.- Chapter 4. A Study on the Background and Issues of Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan- Implications by comparing several business analysis indicators.- Chapter 5. Privatization of Public Utilities: Results from the UK Experiment.- Chapter 6. Issues in the Development of the Energy Distribution Sector in India: The Cases of the Electricity and Gas Industries.- Chapter 7. New Designs for Regulations on City Gas Pipeline Networks in Japan.- Chapter 8. New Designs for City Gas Businesses in the Era of the Fully Liberalized Gas Retail Markets in Japan.- Index

Takashi YanagawaKobe University 

Takashi Yanagawa is a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Kobe University, Japan, where he specializes in industrial organization. His work includes Risks and Regulation of New Technologies (edited jointly with Tsuyoshi Matsuda and Jonathan Wolff, Springer, 2020), Introduction to Econo-Legal Studies (edited jointly with Hiroshi Takahashi and Shinya Ouchi, Yuhikaku, 2014, in Japanese; China Machine Press, 2017, in Chinese; and currently being translated into English), among others. At present he is working on research projects having to do with the competition policies of platform businesses, energy market reform under the Paris Agreement, and econo-legal studies.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He was formerly the director of the Interfaculty Initiative in the Social Sciences at Kobe University and was also the vice-dean of the Organization for Advanced andIntegrated Research at Kobe University. He was a visiting researcher at the Japan Fair Trade Commission, the London School of Economics, and the University of California at Berkeley. He was the president of the Japan Economic Policy Association and is currently a board member of the Japan Economic Policy Association and the Public Utility Economics Association. He is also a co-editor of the International Journal of Economic Policy Studies (Springer).  



 

 

 

Shinichi Kusanagi

University of Hyogo

Shinichi Kusanagi is a professor of public utility law at the University of Hyogo, Japan. His research areas are public utility law and economic administrative law. He received his S.J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Keio University, Japan. He also received an LL.M. degree from Indiana University, USA, and an LL.B. from Keio University. He taught law and environment policy at the Evergreen State College in the USA as an exchange