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Shintaro Kurachi

Public Finance · Nordic Countries · Denmark

Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University

Visiting Researcher, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University

My major field is public finance, with a particular focus on tax policy and social policy in the Nordic countries.

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Profile

Current Positions

2026–present
Visiting Researcher, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University

2024–present
Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University

Quest for Ecological and Sustainable Economies in Eurasia: Historical Paths and Future Strategies (ESEE)
Collaborating Researcher

Previous Positions

2019–2024
Senior Assistant Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University

2017–2019
The Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research, Researcher

2016–2019
Takasaki City University of Economics, Part-time Lecturer in Local Public Finance

2016–2017
Keio University Faculty of Economics, Research Associate

Education

Keio University, Graduate School of Economics
M.A. in Economics, 2013

Concentration: Public Finance and Tax Policy in Nordic Countries

Master’s Thesis: The Interaction of Tax Policy in the Nordic Countries: The Case of the Introduction of Dual Income Tax in Sweden and Denmark

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Research

Public Finance
Tax Policy
Social Policy
Nordic Countries
Denmark
Local Public Finance

Research Introduction

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Publications

Recent Publications

2026
Shintaro Kurachi, “Why Carbon Pricing Hinders Carbon Negativity: The Case of Disincentives in Denmark’s CCS Policy,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 58–61.
2026
Kashiwagi, M. and Kimura, Y. (eds.), Frontiers of Administrative and Fiscal Reform, Soseisha. Co-author of Chapter 1 and author of Chapter 6. [in Japanese]
2026
Mu, Y. (ed.), Growth and Globalization of Core Regional Cities: Urban Case Studies from the United States, China, Japan, the EU, Russia, and India, Kokusai Shoin. Chapter 5: “Widening Regional Disparities and the Sustainable Urban Economy in the EU and Denmark: The Case of Aarhus.” [in Japanese]
2025
Enari, Y., Kurachi, S., Sato, K., and Fujiwara, H., Why Not Learn Public Finance? From Basics to Current Issues, Yuhikaku. [in Japanese]
2024
Kurachi, S., “Innovation, Nation, and Public Finance: Focusing on Denmark’s ‘Innovative Welfare State’ and Intermediate Organizations,” Political Economy Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 2. [in Japanese]
2021
Kurachi, S., “Resilience under COVID-19: A Case of Public Finance in Denmark,” Northern European Studies, Vol. 17, pp. 1–11. [in Japanese]
2021
Kurachi, S., “Almene Boliger in Denmark: Importance and Challenges of Social Housing,” Review of Consumer Co-operative Studies, June 2021, pp. 33–41. [in Japanese]
2021
Kurachi, S., “Au Pair Argument: Gender, Immigration, and Local Public Finance,” Economic Policy for Quality Life, No. 292, May 2021. [in Japanese]
2021
Kurachi, Shintaro, “Denmark: Housing Safety Net for ‘Self-Reliance’,” in Kuniaki Tanabe, Tetsutaro Okada and Nobuyuki Izumida (eds.), Japan’s Housing Security: From Quantitative Analysis and International Comparison, Keio University Press, pp. 189–210. [in Japanese]
2019
Kurachi, S., “Environmental Taxes in Nordic Countries: The Danish Experiences with CO2 Taxes,” Economia, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 41–60. [in Japanese]
2018
Kurachi, S., “Universalism and Tax Consent in Denmark,” in Gisela Huerlimann, W. Elliot Brownlee and Eisaku Ide (eds.), Worlds of Taxation: The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 99–129. [in English]
Earlier Publications (2014–2017)
2017
Kurachi, S., “Child Benefit and Transferable Basic Deduction in Denmark – Process of Gender Equality in Tax System,” Economic Policy for Quality Life, No. 243, April 2017, pp. 24–28. [in Japanese]
2017
Kurachi, S., “Welfare Chauvinism in Tax Revolts and Anti-immigration Movement,” in Shiobara and Inazu (eds.), To Transcend Social Divide, Seikyu-sha. [in Japanese]
2016
Kurachi, S., “Tax Revolts and Tax Autonomy in Denmark and Japan,” Three Historical Analyses on Japan’s Fiscal Issues – Researches on Japan’s Tax Policy, Intergovernmental Fiscal Relation and Elderly Care System, Rikkyo Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper Series, DP2016-E-1, pp. 18–47. [in English]
2016
Kazuaki Sato, Yui Ohtsu, Shintaro Kurachi, Leo Shimamura and Yasuto Dobashi, “An International Comparative Study of Financing Healthcare: The Case of Eight Developed Countries in 1990s-2000s,” Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series, DP2016-010. Download.
2016
Kurachi, S., “The Process of Universalism in the Danish Welfare System: The Multi-tiered Need’s Testing System in Denmark,” Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series, DP2016-006. Download.
2016
Shintaro Kurachi, Kazuaki Sato and Leo Shimamura, “Why International Cooperation on Greening Tax System Failed? – The Case of EU, Nordic Countries, and Netherlands,” Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series, DP2016-001. [in Japanese] English Abstract.
2015
Kurachi, S., “Methodological Investigation in Comparative Public Finance: International Comparison in Fiscal Sociology,” Mita Journal of Economics, Vol. 107, No. 4, pp. 571–585. [in Japanese]
2015
Kurachi, S., “Local Income Taxation and Intergovernmental Relationships in Denmark – Budget Cooperation in the 1980s,” Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series, DP2015-004. [in Japanese] Abstract.
2014
Kurachi, S., “Interrelationship between the Tax Policies in Nordic Countries — Introduction of Dual Income Taxation in Denmark and Sweden,” Public Finance after the Comprehensive Reform of Social Security and Tax in Japan, Yuhikaku. [in Japanese]

Conference Presentations

2026
Kurachi, S., “Adam Smith’s Fiscal Thought and the Development of Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology in Japan,” International Conference on the Wealth of Nations – the 250th Anniversary of the Wealth of Nations, March 10, 2026.
2025
Kurachi, S., “Between Dependency and Fiscal Autonomy: Public Finance Analysis of Danish-Greenlandic Fiscal Relation,” Social Science History Association 2025, Chicago, USA, November 20, 2025.
2024
Kurachi, S., “The Development of Local Public Finance System in Denmark,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting 2024, October 31, 2024.
2016
Kurachi, S., “A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Tax Revolts in Denmark and Japan,” EIJS Seminar “Three Historical Analyses on Japan’s Fiscal Issues,” Stockholm, September 14, 2016.
2016
Kurachi, S., “A Comparative Historical Analysis of Tax Revolts and Social Service in Denmark and the U.S. State California,” Policy History Conference, June 3, 2016.
2015
Kurachi, S., “The Process of Universalism in the Danish Welfare System,” International Conference “Changing Fortune of the Fiscal State in Industrialized Democracies,” Odawara, July 31, 2015.
2014
Kurachi, S., “How Did Denmark Confront Its Tax Revolt?” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 6, 2014.

Research Grants

Denmark as an Innovative Welfare State

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 23K20659

2021–2024

Immigration and Public Finance

Study on Immigration from the Perspective of Public Finance

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 23H00901
2023–2026

Teaching

Teaching Experience

Invited Lecture

“The Danish Welfare System since 1970s,” Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Public Finance, January 17, 2017.

Links

Contact

Shintaro Kurachi
School of Political Science and Economics
Meiji University
1-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8301, Japan

Email: mail［at］shintarokurachi.org