Koji Kotani

TL;DR: The authors showed that the natural resource abundance in 1990 had positive impacts on economic growth between 1990 and 2010, contrary to our initial expectation, and they further test Dutch disease theory, and the result contradicts the Dutch disease hypothesis, concluding that in the period from 1970 to 1990, the hypotheses of a resource curse and Dutch disease hold.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the energy demands of rural households by using survey data taken from Beijing's ten suburban districts, which contained information on both non-commercial and commercial energy use, key characteristics of the households and several renewable energy technologies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed a stochastic production function approach by controlling a novel set of season-wise climatic and geographical variables to identify the impact of climatic variation on agricultural yield and its variability by utilizing the data of rice, wheat and climate variables in the central region of Nepal.

TL;DR: In this paper, a non-parametric approach was used to characterize the impacts of climate change on crop yield distributions in Andhra Pradesh, India using 34 years of data and quantile regressions to untangle the impacts across the quantiles of rice yield.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the case of Mongolia under coal price uncertainty and found the optimal trigger coal prices for switching technologies with some scenarios in electricity price and externality; characterize when renewable energy investments become attractive.