Fuhito Kojima

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University (2009- )

fuhitokojima1979 “at” gmail.com (replace “at” with @)

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Curriculum Vitae  


Research Interests

Primary Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Market Design

Secondary Field: Political Economics 


Teaching

Syllabus and slides are available. Please feel free to use the slides for your personal use and for your teaching. If you find any errors, typos, and/or possible mis-citation (I hope they do not occur!), I appreciate your letting me know.

Current Teaching

ECON 289: Topics in Game Theory (graduate, winter 2010)

ECON 285: Market Design (graduate, fall 2009)

Teaching in the Past & Mini Lectures

Econ 474: Matching and Market Design (Spring 2009 at Yale)

Mini Lectures on Matching and Market Design (October 2009 at Princeton; July 2009 at Yonsei University; June 2009 at University of Tokyo)


Selected Publications

Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms (2008), with Yeon-Koo Che, forthcoming, Econometrica.

Axioms for Deferred Acceptance (2007), with Mihai Manea, forthcoming, Econometrica.

Incentives and Stability in Large Two-Sided Matching Markets (2009), with Parag A. PathakAmerican Economic Review  99, pp 608–27.

Incentives in the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism (2007), with Mihai Maneaforthcoming, Journal of Economic Theory

Risk-Dominance and Perfect Foresight Dynamics in N-Player Games (2006), Journal of Economic Theory 128, pp 255-273.



Publications (Continued)

Matching, Resource Allocation, Auction and Market Design

    Impossibility of Stable and Nonbossy Matching Mechanisms (2009), forthcoming,  Economics Letters.

      Group Incentive Compatibility for Matching with Contracts (2007), with John William Hatfield, forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior.

Random Assignment of Multiple Indivisible Objects (2007), forthcoming, Mathematical Social Sciences.

Matching with Contracts: Comment (2008), with John William HatfieldAmerican Economic Review 98, pp 1189- 1194.

Games of School Choice under the Boston Mechanism with General Priority Structures (2007), Social Choice and Welfare 31, pp 357-365.

The Law of Aggregate Demand and Welfare in the Two-Sided Matching Market (2007), Economics Letters 99, pp 581-584.

When can Manipulations be Avoided in Two-Sided Matching Markets? Maximal Domain Results (2007), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (contribution), Article 32.

Matching and Price Competition: Comment (2007), American Economic Review 97, pp 1027-1031.

Random Paths to Pairwise Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems: A Study on Market Equilibration (2006), with M. Utku ÜnverInternational Journal of Game Theory 36, pp 473-488 (the Special Issue in Honor of David Gale).

Mixed Strategies in Games of Capacity Manipulation in Hospital-Intern Markets (2006), Social Choice and Welfare 27, pp 25-28. 

Learning and Evolutionary Game Theory

p-Dominance and Perfect Foresight Dynamics (2007), with Satoru TakahashiJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.

Stability and Instability of the Unbeatable Strategy in Dynamic Processes (2006), International Journal of Economic Theory 2, pp 41-54. (2006 IJET Lionel W. McKenzie Prize)

Anti-Coordination Games and Dynamic Stability (2007), joint with Satoru TakahashiInternational Game Theory Review 9, pp 667-688.

Political Economics

Bureaucrats or Politicians?: Comment (2008), American Economic Review 98, pp 561-562.

        A Theory of Hung Juries and Informative Voting (2007), with Yuki Takagiaccepted subject to revisionGames and Economic Behavior.

Non-Refereed Publications

     Matching Market Design (a survey, in Japanese), Keizai Seminar (Economics Seminar), with Yosuke Yasuda, 2009.

     Game Theory and Market Design, 1st part, 2nd part (newspaper articles, in Japanese), The Nikkei, 2009.


Working papers

Matching, Resource Allocation, Auction and Market Design


Learning and Evolutionary Game Theory
     
      A Note on Dynamics in Games  (2009)