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2011-present, Associate Professor, Kansai University

2006-2011, Associate Professor, Osaka Prefecture University

2002-2006, Assistant Professor, Osaka Prefecture University

Ph.D. 2002, Kobe University

M.A. 1997, University of Tsukuba

B.A. 1995, Hosei University

 

Fields

Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, Organizational Economics

Research

Published or Forthcoming Papers

"Multimarket Contact in Continuous-Time Games," (joint with Katsunori Ohta), Economics Letters, 101, 4-5, 2008.

"Intergenerational Conflicts of Interests and Seniority Systems in Organizations," (joint with Munetomo Ando), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 65, 757-767, 2008.

"Folk Theorems for Infinitely Repeated Games Played by Organizations with Short-Lived Members," International Economic Review, 48, 517-549, 2007.

"Emergence of Leadership in Teams," (joint with Hideo Suehiro), Japanese Economic Review, 59, 295-316, 2005.

Working Papers

"Experiments on Emergence of Leadership in Teams," (joint with Koji Abe and Hideo Suehiro), Working Paper Series F-49, Kansai University, 2011.

"Optimal Shirking in Repeated Partnerships," (joint with Katsunori Ohta and Tadashi Sekiguchi), 2009.

"Leadership by Confidence in Teams," (joint with Hideo Suehiro), GSBA Kobe University Discussion Paper Series No. 2008_35, Kobe University, July 2008. (*This paper is a revised version of the paper circulated under the title "Leadership by Confidence in Teams, I: Two Type Case".)

"Optimal Sharing Rules in Repeated Partnerships," (joint with Katsunori Ohta and Tadashi Sekiguchi), KIER Discussion Paper Series No. 650, Kyoto University, March 2008.

"The Value of Collusion in Multimarket Contact," (joint with Katsunori Ohta), CAEA Discussion Paper, No. 144, Kyoto University, 2007.

 

Work in Progress

"Accumulating Information in Repeated Games with Imperfect Public Monitoring" (joint with Katsunori Ohta and Tatsuhiro Shichijo), 2011.

 

Referee

Games and Economic Behavior, Japan and the World Economy, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Review of Economic Studies

 

Affiliations

Econometric Society, Game Theory Society, Japanese Economic Association, Docomomo Japan

Teaching

*For Kansai University:

Organizational Economics
Introductory Microeconomics

*For Osaka Prefecture University

Microeconomics A

Microeconomics B
 

Seminar

Osaka Prefecture University Theory and Econometrics Seminar (In Japanese)

Cartel Study Workshop (In Japanese)

*photo by Eriko Kasai