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Hitoshi Mitomo is Professor of Telecommunications Economics at GITS, Waseda University, and a guest research officer at the Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy in Japan. His current research focuses on the externalities and pricing of telecommunications. He is also interested in the social consequences of IT. He co-founded the AFT, a voluntary consortium for developing IT business opportunities.
Regarding telecommunications, it is his view that even social sciences can do theoretical inquiry, empirical analysis, experiment, and practice.
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Project Summary |
Studies will focus on information and telecommunications economic analysis
and the effect of informatization on society. Topics analyzed will include
theoretical optimization and the empirical aspects of telecommunications
charges, network externalities, the spread of new services, IT investment,
and the sustainable information society.
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Publications |
Multimedia Economy, Bunshindo Publishing Co., May 1998 (in Japanese).
Teleworking Society, NTT Publishing Co., June 1997 (in Japanese).
Economics of Telecommunications Pricing and Externalities, Nihon Hyoronsha
Publishing Co., March 1995 (in Japanese).
Impact of Telecommuting on Mass Transit Congestion: the Tokyo Case, Telecommunications
Policy, Vol.23, Elsevier Science
"Information Technology for Sustainable Societies--Public Policy Perspectives
in Japan: A Case of Telework", IPTS Report Special Issue on Sustainable
Information Societies in Global Perspective, The Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies (IPTS), the European Commission, March 1999
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Biographical Information |
Hitoshi Mitomo graduated from Yokohama National University with a BA in
Management Science. He received his MS in Environment Science from the
University of Tsukuba. He studied as a doctoral student at the Institute
of Socio-Economic Planning, University of Tsukuba, and received his Doctorate
in Engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology. Before joining
the GITS faculty, he was an associate professor (1992-1998) and a professor
(1998-2000) of Transportation and Telecommunications Economics at Senshu
University. Since 1992, he has been a guest research officer at the Institute
for Posts and Telecommunications Policy, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
(MPT). He has served as a member of the Telecommunications Council of the
Japanese Government and of several committees in MPT.
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Papers |
Optimal Pricing of Telecommunications Service in an Advanced Information-Oriented
Society (joint work), Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspective,
Springer Verlag, 1988.
Heterogeneous Subscribers and the Optimal Two-Part Tariff of Telecommunications Service, Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, Vol. 35, No. 1, The Operations Research Society of Japan, June 1992.
Quantitative Analysis of Japanese Telecommunications Structure, Information Science and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 2, Senshu University, April 1994.
"Information Technology for Sustainable Societies--Public Policy Perspectives in Japan: A Case of Telework" (joint work), IPTS Report Special Issue on Sustainable Information Societies in Global Perspective, The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), the European Commission, March 1999.
"Impact of Telecommuting on Mass Transit Congestion: the Tokyo Case" (joint work) Telecommunications Policy, Vol.23, Elsevier Science, December 1999.
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Selected Presentations |
Economic Efficiency of the Deregulation of Telecommunication Market , 12th Pacific Regional Science Conference, Singapore, July 1991.
Telephone Communication Structure in Japan , 13th Pacific Regional Science Conference, Whistler, July 1993.
Impact of Telecommuting in Japan , 5th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International, Tokyo, May 1996.
Externality Effects on the Demand and Pricing for Telecommunications, 15th
Pacific Regional Science Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, December
1997.
Information Technology for Sustainable Societies--Public Policy Perspectives in Japan: A Case of Telework, Futuroscope World Symposium on Network Media Paris, March 1-5, 1999, 16th Pacific Regional Science Conference, Seoul, July 1999.
"Contributions of ICT to sustainable information society: Managerial,
macroeconomic, and environmental impacts in Japan", Conference on
Sustainable Information Societies for the 21st Century, Brussels, Feb 21-22,
2000.
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