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Study on privatization of waste management sectors considering the principle of extended producer responsibility

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K01596
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 07040:Economic policy-related
Research InstitutionKansai University

Principal Investigator

Ohori Shuichi  関西大学, 総合情報学部, 教授 (70378959)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 友田 康信  大阪経済大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30437280)
紀國 洋  立命館大学, 経済学部, 教授 (90312339)
Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords循環経済 / 拡大生産者責任 / 計画的陳腐化 / デポジット制度 / 廃棄物処理料金 / 耐久消費財 / 時間的非整合性 / 製品の長寿命化 / 耐久性 / 時間非整合性問題 / 環境配慮設計 / 耐久財 / デポジット・リファンド制度 / 時間非整合性 / 廃棄処理料金 / 不法投棄 / 民営化 / 廃棄物政策 / 廃棄物処理
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study considers desirable Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies that both extend the durability of goods and encourage households to recycle behavior. The main findings are as follows. First, a post-paid waste fee (DF) policy can provide producers with incentives to increase durability, delay household waste disposal, and discount future disposal fee payments. Second, DF policies create incentives for consumers to illegally dump waste to reduce their disposal fee payments, and for producers to reduce durability to avoid market saturation and the resulting future price reductions.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

循環経済構築の重要性は、政府、自治体、産業界において近年高まっている。しかし、循環経済への移行が企業と消費者の余剰及び社会厚生にどのような影響を与えるか、そして、循環経済がどのような条件の下で実現可能であるかは経済学的に肝要な問いであるもの、明らかにではない。
本研究は、循環経済構築のための望ましいEPR政策を経済学的に示すことができており、また、循環経済の観点から環境政策を捉えたという点で学術的意義は高いと思われる。また、社会的に重要性が高まりつつある循環経済について、本研究結果が議論の出発点を提示できているという点で、社会的意義が高いと思われる。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2024 2023 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] La Trobe University(オーストラリア)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Burden Sharing and Self-Enforcing Climate Agreements2024

    • Author(s)
      Shuichi Ohori, Katsunori Ohta
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

      Volume: 11 Issue: 4 Pages: 827-852

    • DOI

      10.1086/727808

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Advance disposal fee vs. disposal fee: A monopolistic producer’s durability choice model2021

    • Author(s)
      Hiroshi Kinokuni, Shuichi Ohori and Yasunobu Tomoda
    • Journal Title

      Resource and Energy Economics

      Volume: 65 Pages: 101242-101242

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101242

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Optimal Waste Disposal Fees When Product Durability is Endogenous: Accounting for Planned Obsolescence2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroshi Kinokuni, Shuichi Ohori,Yasunobu Tomoda
    • Journal Title

      Environmental and Resource Economics

      Volume: forthcoming Issue: 1 Pages: 1-18

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10640-018-0248-6

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Privatization of Solid Waste Collection Firm2018

    • Author(s)
      Kinokuni Hiroshi, Ohori Shuichi, Tomoda Yasunobu
    • Journal Title

      EGC REPORT, Nanyang Technological University

      Volume: 2018/03 Pages: 1-12

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Environmental policy for circular economy: applying for deposit-refund systems2023

    • Author(s)
      大堀秀一
    • Organizer
      環境経済・政策学会
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Burden sharing and self-enforcing climate agreements2020

    • Author(s)
      Shuichi Ohori
    • Organizer
      The 25th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Burden sharing and self-enforcing climate agreements2019

    • Author(s)
      Shuichi Ohori
    • Organizer
      Singapore Economic Review Conference 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Burden sharing and self-enforcing climate agreements2019

    • Author(s)
      大堀秀一
    • Organizer
      環境経済・政策学会 2019年大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Deposit-Refund Systems for Durable Products2018

    • Author(s)
      大堀秀一
    • Organizer
      環境経済・政策学会2018年大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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