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James Mak

   

Office: Saunders Hall 532
Office Hours: current semester
Phone: 956 -8280   Fax: 956 -4347
Email: jmak@hawaii.edu
Position: Professor

Research Interests: economics of travel and tourism, public finance, Hawaii

Teaching Areas: travel and tourism, public finance, U.S. economy

Affiliations: Public Policy Center (UHM)

Service History: On the editorial boards of the University of Hawaii Press and the Journal of Travel Research

Selected Publications:

  • Books:
    • Developing a Dream Destination, Tourism and Tourism Policy Planning in Hawaii, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming 2008).
    • Tourism and the Economy, Understanding the Economics of Tourism, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004)
    • (with S. Sunder, Y. Abe, and K. Igawa, eds.), Japan: Why It Works, Why It Doesn't: Economics in Everyday Life, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998).
    • (with E. Haites and G. Walton,) Western River Transportation: The Era of Early Internal Improvements, 1810-1860 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
  • Articles:
    • "Taxing Cruise Tourism: Alaska's Head Tax on Cruise Ship Passengers," Tourism Economics (forthcoming, 2008).
    • (with R. Blair and C. Bonham) "Collusive Duopoly: The Economic Effects of the Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines' Agreement to Reduce Capacity," Antitrust Law Journal, vol. 74, no. 2 (2007).
    • (with C. Bonham and C. Edmonds) "Impact of 9/11 and Other Terrible Global Events on Tourism in the U.S. and Hawaii," Journal of Travel Research (August, 2006)
    • James Mak, Lonny Carlile, and Sally Dai, "The Impact of Population Aging on Japanese International Travel to 2025" Journal of Travel Research. (Nov. 2005)
    • "Taxation of Travel and Tourism" in L. Dwyer and P. Forsyth eds. International Handbook of Tourism Economics (London: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2005).
    • "Tourist Taxes" in Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy (Washington D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 2005).
    • (with E. Fujii and M. Khaled), "The Exportability of Hotel Occupancy and Other Tourist Taxes," National Tax Journal, (June, 1985). Reprinted in International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, Economics of Tourism, (London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., October, 2000) .

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